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SFX Blogger Laura McConnell wonders why everybody is taking sides in the DVD versus Blu-ray debate when there’s a much better third option

While it’s always nice to hear developers effuse over their creations while watching artists spin character-models on a large monitor (see every behind-the-scenes clip ever released), this backstage trailer for Sony’s upcoming Journey takes another tack. Released alongside a blog post by composer Austin Wintory, the clip focuses on Wintory’s …

To mark Eternal Law starting on ITV, we look back at some of the show’s feathery forerunners

The first From The Office of the new year, complete with a Christmas review, much Weekender anticipation and news of a HORRIFYING INJURY to a member of the SFX team (sensationalist, us? Never). Happy new year dear readers! It’s day three of 2012 in SFX Towers and the apocalyptic weather …

Have you seen how good computer games have got? I mean, you look at Pong now and it’s like ‘wow’. You know? It used to look so realistic, so absolutely just like real tennis. All it would have needed was for someone to don a sweatband and question a line …

The complete Back to the Future video game series has been made free to PlayStation Plus members as part of the first PlayStation Store update of 2012. As listed on the PlayStation Blog, Telltale’s point-and-click adventure franchise leads a list of January PS Plus deals which also include a free …

Turn Of The Dark defies the critics, but it’s been so expensive, it has to keep this kind of performance going to break even

Great news for fighting fans everywhere – SoulCalibur V has officially gone gold! That doesn’t mean it’s won a sparkly pendant to denote its victory in some kind of Olympic event – instead it just means that the game has been finished and mastered, ready to be copied and shipped …

If only the citizens of Alderaan had been given mandatory dance lessons at a young age. Millions of innocent lives could have been saved. Hell, if Anakin’s mum had been a bit more willing to boogie in the face of danger, she might have survived that incident with the Tusken …

Bob Anderson, the sword-master who worked on Star Wars , The Lord Of The Rings and The Princess Bride , has died aged 89. He passed away on 1 January, according to a statement by The British Academy of Fencing (via BBC News). Brit Anderson was an Olympic fencer before …