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Primeval: New World 1.06 “Clean Up On Aisle Three” REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 1.06 Writer: Peter Hume Director: Amanda Tapping THE ONE WHERE Dylan, Evan and Mac slap on the hockey gear and go up against a team of clever little dinosaurs; Ange and Lt Leeds have a …

Brain Age was one of the DS’s more unlikely hits, a mass-appeal edutainment game inspired by the research of preeminent neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima. The latest title, Brain Age: Concentration Training, takes the foundation laid down by the DS game and expands it with a handful of challenging new exercises …

Dead Space built its reputation on tension. In previous entries, it came in the forms of fear and anticipation. But in Dead Space 3, tension comes in a different flavor. Here, it’s created by the stress of fighting wave after wave of Necromorphs, sometimes in groups so large that you …

Zombie movies are ubiquitous and most sane people have had quite enough of Twilight . So zom-rom-com Warm Bodies , where undead hottie Nicholas Hoult falls in love with feisty blonde Kristen Stewart-alike human Teresa Palmer, could easily have been a dead loss. As it turns out, Jonathan Levine’s adaptation …

If you go down to the woods today… Well, don’t. You’re likely to find some wizened old hag living in a gingerbread house. That’s what happens to young Hansel and Gretel who, as the Brothers Grimm fairytale goes, incinerate the witch in her oven and live to fight another day. …

Lost Girl 3.04 “Fae-de To Black” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 3.04 Written by: Alexandra Zarowny Directed by: Ron Murphy THE ONE WHERE Bo goes undercover as a therapist to find out why humans are committing suicide in strange ways – and her mission becomes desperate when Dyson …

It’s been a long time coming, but Skulls of the Shogun, the debut effort from developer 17-BIT, has finally made its way to the Xbox 360 and other Microsoft devices. Inspired by the studio’s love of classic turn-based strategy titles, SOTS is a streamlined tactics game in the vein of …

Haven 3.12 “Reunion” TV REVIEW Episode 3.12 Writers: Gabrielle Stanton Director: Lee Rose THE ONE WHERE A troubled man turns his old high school nemeses back into teenagers when murdering them, and the Skinwalker is revealed to be Arla, the Colorado Kid’s troubled wife. VERDICT In the arc-heavy second half …

Wool by Hugh Howey book review : Buy it and you won’t feel fleeced. In today’s dystopia-crazy book world, the only real surprise about the “underground, enclosed society” subgenre making a comeback is that it’s taken quite so long. Ever since the nuclear paranoia of the ‘50s, SF has regularly …

Throne Of The Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed book review: The Doctor will kill you now. It’s easy to agree with Lies Of Locke Lamora author Scott Lynch when he says that Throne of The Crescent Moon “buoyantly fails to suck”. Another ho-hum, medieval backdrop would have sucked. Prophecies would …