Resident Evil, Call of Duty, Dead Rising, Dying Light, Left 4 Dead, State of Decay, Dead Island, Plants vs. Zombies… it can often seem as though zombie games are as much of an epidemic as the creatures they so often portray. Not just that, but cast out the net into …
Read More »Dolores is darker, Bernard is damaged, and 11 other things you need to know about Westworld season 2
Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) is very nearly here and we still know surprisingly little about what we’ll be getting when it arrives. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing – the success of the first season is mainly down to the fact that you don’t know what’s going …
Read More »“It corrupts or subjugates everybody and everything” – Why The Handmaids Tale is still TVs most terrifyingly relevant future
Praise be, readers. The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 is here. If your skin just chilled a few degrees at that greeting then you know the power of novelist Margaret Atwood’s prose – or you were transfixed by the TV adaptation of her dystopian exploration of misogyny and corrupted religion, The …
Read More »“It’s closer to a melee short film almost than a straight-on trailer”: The story behind making Dead Island’s ground-breaking trailer
I definitely cried. Maybe you even cried. Who can blame us? Seven years ago one of the most talked-about trailers for a little-known game called Dead Island (opens in new tab) emerged, presenting gamers everywhere with a tragic tale of a family vacation gone wrong. Featuring sections that played in …
Read More »Netflix recently cancelled another underappreciated ‘best sitcom ever’… and it’s (probably) your fault
Hear ye, assemble and mourn, for alas it has happened again. Yes, friends, it has come time for another undeserving name to be nailed to the rotting, blood spattered monument to Amazing TV Shows Cancelled Before Their Time. And it is, once again, all your fault. Possibly. Either way, I …
Read More »Yes, it sounds like bullsh*t, but according to this experiment gaming, movie, and TV spoilers supposedly make stories better
Yeah, yeah, I know. You’re probably ready to mount my head on a pike for suggesting that spoilers can increase your enjoyment of a movie, TV show, or game. And by no means am I suggesting we should start blurting out spoilers as soon as we get our hands on …
Read More »Legion season 2 episode 1 review – bizarre, brilliant, and smart TV
It’s probably best if you don’t try to understand everything in the Legion season 2 episode 1, and just go along with it. You’ll definitely enjoy it more that way. If anything, it feels like the showrunners have gone even more arthouse and conceptual with season 2, and the first …
Read More »8 Sea of Thieves updates that need to happen, or player interest will sink
There’s no denying that Sea of Thieves (opens in new tab) is great fun. Whether you’re having a vomit fight with your crew, sailing a ship under the Northern Lights, defeating a skeleton crew or finding buried treasure, if you do anything in Sea of Thieves with friends, it’s an …
Read More »Ernest Cline reveals how his “unfilmable book” – Ready Player One – finally became a blockbuster
In case there was any doubt, Ernest Cline is a massive geek. Ready Player One (opens in new tab) is an ode to some of the nerdiest (and best) movies, video games, and more from the ‘80s and beyond, and its author is every inch the fanboy you’d expect him …
Read More »9 PS4 skins that are so atrocious they’ll make you shield your console protectively
Money doesn’t buy everything. It can’t buy you respect, love, or happiness…but it can buy you something so horrendously grotesque that it’ll make any guests you have shrivel up their nose in disgust, as if they’ve smelt the corpse of a deceased family pet and can now see it stretched …
Read More »
Game News Video Games Reviews & News