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Speak softly and carry a big stick–what a load of horseradish. Tropico 5 finally takes us to the big leagues, where guns, goats, and gold mines just don’t cut it. A true dictator casts his eye upon the horizon and never looks back, leveraging trade fleets, cutting-edge research, and diplomatic …

There’s a good chance you don’t care about free games, but I really think you should. Typically, this is when I’d launch into an argument in favor of the concept. “They provide great experiences with zero barrier of entry!” I’d type with gusto. “You’re missing out,” I’d say in an …

J.J. Abrams has spoken from the set of Star Wars: Episode VII in a video that also gives us a first glimpse at the film’s special effects. Yep, we’ve seen our first creature on a Star Wars: Episode VII set, which is just a bit exciting. He’s even carrying several …

Mugen Souls Z is an uncomfortable foray into the candy-colored world of Lolita complexes. A follow-up to the 2012 JRPG Mugen Souls, Souls Z picks up right where its predecessor left off in almost every way, right down to troubling fixations. Unfortunately, Souls Z also takes on the first game’s …

Despite its lunges of violence, fractured family relationships and coarsely handsome visuals, David Michod’s follow-up to his acclaimed debut, Animal Kingdom , is an altogether different beast. Set in an impoverished near-future ’10 years after the collapse’, it opens with the steely-eyed, close-mouthed Eric (Guy Pearce) squinting at a desolate …

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty-inspired new movie Maleficent opens in cinemas this week, so we caught up with stars Elle Fanning and Sam Riley to talk all things fairytale. According to them, despite co-starring with a scary-looking Angelina Jolie as the titular bad fairy, the set wasn’t as scary as you might …

John Turturro’s fifth film as director comes with a gilt-edged premise: Woody Allen as a would-be pimp, touting Turturro’s reluctant gigolo to horny Manhattan housewives (led by Sharon Stone). It’s tailor-made for Allen; not only is he as funny as he’s been in years, he and Turturro make a wonderful …

The days of seeing one game developer making a single title may be over. It’s no secret that many of the most massive, blockbuster games have been made by multiple game studios. But one publisher has the multi-studio development down pat. Ubisoft is cranking games out like a well-oiled machine, …

Dating from 1962, Ozu’s sublime final film (and one of his only two in colour) plays variations on his perennial themes of marriage and inter-generational tensions. Chisû Ryû, Ozu’s favourite actor, is the elderly widower who comes to wonder if he’s being selfish in relying on his unmarried daughter to …

Exciting news for film fans, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street is available to buy right now – which means in a few easy steps you can be watching it on your laptop / iPad / whatever-you-want, via iTunes (opens in new tab) , Blinkbox (opens in new tab) …