What is it? A sidescrolling shooter that’s as tough as it is short Play it if you like… Old-school arcade difficulty; persevering over unfavorable run-‘n’-gun odds Format: PS4, PC Price: $19.99 / £19.99 Release date: Out now By the time I was on my 20th playthrough of the first level …
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Insane with the pain People are really good at hiding their problems. Sure, the internet is full of angsty attention-seekers if you know where to look (ie. Facebook, Twitter, anywhere with the facility to post comments or status updates), but in real life, people tend to keep their bad stuff …
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It’s Stephen King’s birthday today! You probably know him as that guy who wrote all those books, along with films like Carrie, The Shining, and that bit in Misery with the feet. That’s the one. But for me, while I’ve read so many King books, my go-to memory is The …
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Brotherly love. Ain’t it swell? Just look at Nathan Drake and his older sibling Sam. They finish each other’s quips. They intimately snap mens’ necks in tandem. They toast their good health in a centuries-old bar in the heart of Libertalia. Their blood-bonded bromance truly warms the cockles. Had Uncharted …
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What is it? A hand-drawn trek through Norse mythology as beautiful as it is punishing Play it if you like… Atmospheric games that don’t hold your hand; Shadow of the Colossus Format: PC / PS4 / Xbox One / Wii U Price: $14.99 / £10.99 Release date: Out now On …
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There’s a level in the first Crash Bandicoot called Lights Out. Twenty years before the short film and movie of the same name, before I’d watched The Blair Witch Project, before I filled my brain with the nightmares of modern horror that lurk in the dark, Lights Out terrified me. …
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Out on Friday 9 September The father adventures of Viggo. Laika’s read strum-dinger. Chris Pine’s criminal enterprise. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Captain Fantastic, Kubo and the Two Strings, Hell or High Water, Ben-Hur, Don’t Breathe, Theo and Hugo, Anthropoid, The Blue Room, …
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In the mood for saving The humble save point is an endangered species in this day and age. Modern games, not wanting to interrupt or burden players with a need to remember to slide a digital bookmark into their progress, either save your game automatically or let you save whenever …
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It’s sadly appropriate that Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof’s sci-fi fantasy Tomorrowland: A World Beyond – a film that deals in dichotomy (alternate dimensions! Retro- futurism! Grounded fantasy!) – sits squarely on a score of exactly 50 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, for both critics and audience. Which somehow narrowly …
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I’ve long held the very sensible belief that if a Gears of War movie ever gets made, the only person who could acceptably play Marcus Fenix is Dave Bautista. It’s obvious. The ex-WWE star turned cinematic heavy has the right build, countenance, and almost exactly the same face. Sometimes even …
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