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Workplace arguments can get the best of us all, but when your workplace is a movie set, which includes hundreds of cast and crew, a stressful and demanding filming schedule, and a studio breathing down your neck, those little tiffs around the water cooler can escalate into much more serious …

Scott Snyder has been a working comic book writer for a decade now, and in that short time span already accelerated to become one of DC’s top writers and the definitive modern Batman writer with his runs on Detective Comics, Batman, and All-Star Batman. But behind that success was a …

***Updated with YOUR winners and losers (opens in new tab) from the show*** The E3 2017 press conferences (opens in new tab) have been and gone. Overall it feels like a solid yet safe year for games on all platforms – while there were a few surprises, no-one really shocked …

Short and sweet – that’s the way! Nintendo showcased a ton of new Nintendo Switch games (and shunned the 3DS) during its newest Nintendo Spotlight, streaming before the E3 2017 show floor opens to the public. New Metroid Prime and Pokemon games for Switch are confirmed to be in development, …

Star Wars Battlefront has changed, and so far, it seems, all for the better. Where the original, multiplayer-only game is the most consummately, lovingly released Star Wars theme park outside of a Disney land-holding (albeit one with a limited number of number of rides and attractions, and an ultimate depth …

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure, the games of 2017 are virtually unrecognisable from the earliest slices of software we marvelled at in the early 80s, yet there’s a common set of values that have always run through them. A ‘good’ game is one that …

If you’ve watched the first trailer for FIFA 18 (opens in new tab) (see below) then you’re already aware that EA is shaking things up with its next instalment of digitised footy: more Frostbite, more Journey, more personality, and – finally! – Ultimate Team legends losing their Xbox exclusivity (opens …

When reviews of the first Dark Souls surfaced, many writers likened their experience to a tour of Hell. The game’s legendary difficulty begs for a metaphor of molar-grinding torment on a sufficiently grand scale, and the Hell allusion is a natural one considering that Dark Souls draws so much inspiration …

Arizona Sunshine is the best-selling VR game (opens in new tab) on Steam, and now it’s getting a port to PS4 and PS Pro. According to the guys who are making it, Vertigo Games, one-in-five virtual reality users on PC own a copy, and it’s constantly near the top of …

Permanently poised on the brink of another comeback, there’s Prince of Persia (opens in new tab): a series in a state of constant reimagining that’s avoided any long-term inactivity since 1989. It’s offered a solid leg-up to those who worked on it, from creator Jordan Mechner (with his screenwriting gig …