Out on Friday 19 August Ricky’s office boss goes big screen. A tickling endurance competition gets even weirder than it sounds. Arthur Ransome’s outdoor novel receives the film treatment. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of David Brent: Life on the Road, Tickled, Swallows and …
Read More »Prey: Breaking and remaking the rules, as BioShock meets Dishonored
For a long time, I’ve bemoaned this generation’s lack of a BioShock moment. Don’t get me wrong, games have been brilliant since 2013. The console hardware has increasingly shown its might, and game designs have evolved very nicely indeed from their last-gen roots. But it’s been a process of small, …
Read More »I made up a Smash Bros. clone with the folks behind Fallout, Dishonored, and Prey
Bethesda has assembled a distinct roster of characters in the last decade, whether by creating instant-classics like Dishonored (opens in new tab), or by buying the talent and/or rights behind existing series like Doom and Fallout. And as Nintendo has proven several times over, the best thing to do with …
Read More »GR+ Live: The making of Abzu PS4
Darling, Journey is better down where it’s wetter, take it from me. Then again our Abzu review (opens in new tab) suggests that’s not necessarily the case. Conceived by Journey artistic director Matt Nava and scored by Austin Wintory, the newly released Abzu PS4 bares a striking number of similarities …
Read More »SDCC 2016: Rahul Kohli and Malcolm Goodwin iZombie Interview
Malcolm Goodwin and Rahul Kohli stop by the Loot Crate booth at San Diego Comic Con and talk about their experience creating the new iZombie show. Get a few hints about the upcoming season 3 and more in our interview.
Read More »You cant watch the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer, but heres every detail
Spider-Man: Homecoming (opens in new tab) might only be a few days into filming, but director Jon Watts still had a treat for fans in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con (opens in new tab). “We just started shooting, we should actually be shooting right now probably,” he said, …
Read More »Why gaming needs more animals that don’t give a f*ck
You know that feeling when everyone knows that something bad happened to you – your dog died, you got fired, you’ve been diagnosed with incurable trench foot – and people start treating you really weirdly, like there’s some cosmic teacher who’s gone “now, class, be nice to Billy, and whatever …
Read More »Predicting the WWE draft: Reigns to Raw, Cena to Smackdown, Undertaker goes unmentioned
Tonight sees the biggest wrestling shake-up in years as WWE holds a draft to decide which superstars stay on Raw and which move to Smackdown, with the two shows set to be broadcast live on consecutive nights for the first time in company history. With Raw on Mondays being one …
Read More »12 things we learnt about Rogue One at the Star Wars Celebration panel
The big news from this week’s Star Wars Celebration Europe (opens in new tab) – that everyone has been talking about – is the Rogue One panel, which debuted a new poster (opens in new tab), an action-packed behind-the-scenes reel (opens in new tab), and a hot second trailer (opens …
Read More »Every Ghostbusters cameo, reference, and Easter egg in the new movie
The new Ghostbusters (opens in new tab) movie is a whole new film in its own right rather than a sequel. However, that doesn’t stop it referencing the original. Quite a lot in fact with cameos and nods all over the place linking it to the past. Let’s take a …
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