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Immediate impressions of Yooka-Laylee are pretty damn great. From the very off, it nails the all-important character-feel inherent to the success of any 3D platformer. Our bat/lizard combo protagonist is instantly responsive, and movement is slick, swift, and eminently malleable – the product of well-judged character weight, momentum, and control-precision …

Ghost in the Shell isn’t the first attempt at adapting anime in live action – Attack on Titan (opens in new tab), for example, was released in 2015, and Akira (opens in new tab)’s red motorcycle has stalled in various levels of development hell for more than a decade – …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

“At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you want to be,” says drug dealer Juan (Mahershala Ali) to Chiron, a 10-year-old boy living in Miami with no father and a crack-dependent mother (Naomie Harris). From this brief description, Barry Jenkins’ film might sound like every other ’hood movie. …

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue, like all Kingdom Hearts games for the past decade and a half, prominently features Utada Hikaru’s pop song ‘Simple and Clean’. Now more than ever, it’s clear that this theme song is not just catchy as hell, it’s also some kind of ongoing …

Westworld has traditionally been a show about questions. Who is Arnold? Is it really ok for humans to treat the Hosts like they do? What’s Ford’s game? Every episode to date has layered question upon question, and for every answer we’ve had, another couple of mysteries seemed to spring up …

Is Makoto Shinkai ‘the new Miyazaki’? Comparisons to Studio Ghibli’s animation master accompanied Shinkai’s previous films: lustrous visions such as Voices of a Distant Star (2003) and The Garden of Words (2013), but Shinkai emerges as his own man with this deeply affecting, richly imagined and lushly gorgeous fantasy. A …

It seems Rick and co need a good long rest to recover from the events of The Walking Dead premiere (opens in new tab) because once again, they’re nowhere to be seen in episode 3, The Cell. Instead we travel into Negan’s world, find out a bit more about the …

“I can make that feeling go away if you like,” Bernard tells Dolores as the fourth episode of Westworld, Dissonance Theory, opens. She recounts her pain at the death of her family and in a truly human moment, asks: “Why would I want that? It’s all I’ve got.”  (Cognitive) Dissonance …