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I remember the furtive chatter more than the experience of playing it: Braid (opens in new tab) was the game that redefined games. It was clever in ways that defied explanation, they said, and it was made by one enigmatic man who became the reluctant star of a movie about …

The Land of the Rising Sun has a long history of providing great video games to the West, and this can clearly be seen through the PlayStation generations. From road tripping buddies to rapping dogs, we’ve picked out our favourite quintessentially Japanese games to grace Sony’s consoles. 1. Hatsune Miku: …

There’s always two sides to every story. With post-apocalyptic cannibals, one half of that story is easy to tell. After all, we tend to assume that only evil people could eat their own kind. But that’s not entirely true. Under the right circumstances, anyone can become a cannibal. You just …

1) Steven Spielberg turns 71. After seven decades and 64 movies, might the great director’s best work still be to come?  It’s easy to take Spielberg for granted, given that he’s been the accepted architect of so much of our cultural landscape since the ‘70s. But in that regard, I …

Four years, thousands of Reddit posts and hundreds of millions of YouTube views later, we might – repeat, might – be about to learn the answer to one of gaming’s greatest mysteries: what’s hidden inside Mount Chiliad in GTA 5 (opens in new tab)? The answer, we’ve long suspected, is …

Playing a video game demo is a bit like tasting the wine before buying the full bottle at a restaurant. You like the look of it, but you need to know for sure whether it’s worth your money before splashing out on the entire thing. Because developers want you to …

2017 has been an incredible year for horror. IT (opens in new tab), Raw (opens in new tab) and Annabelle: Creation were all horrifically wonderful surprises but Jordan Peele effortlessly snared the horror movie of the year back in March with Get Out. In his directorial debut, Peele, the writer …

When not in the director’s chair, Steven Spielberg could be found in the pilot’s seat. His aircraft was not made of aluminium but, like the world beyond the cockpit windows, pixels and computer-generated polygons. And Spielberg had logged countless hours in the virtual skies. A frequent flyer in Microsoft Flight …

The Walking Dead season 8 (opens in new tab) turned off the war engine for episode 6 (opens in new tab), which took a break from all the fighting to devolve into the sluggish soap opera that fans will be more than familiar with, setting up different scenarios and character …

Now that Star Trek Discovery (opens in new tab)’s first half-season has to come an end, you’ve probably been twiddling your thumbs like I have, wondering where to channel all that revitalised Trekmania. As luck would have it, Christmas is coming up, and nothing says Yuletide quite like some spanking …