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The pitch for Soldier Of Fortune was bizarre. If you were told you were going to be making a game based on a licence, you might expect a superhero like Batman, or a well-known movie franchise like Terminator. Instead, Raven Software got a magazine. As if that wasn’t unusual enough, …

Zack Snyder may be polarizing, but there’s no denying the impact he’s had on the film industry. Where he goes, audiences inevitably follow. From 2004’s Dawn of the Dead remake right through to 2021’s Army of the Dead, the director has built up a considerable fanbase who laps up every …

If Zack Snyder’s Justice League was a belated button on the so-called SnyderVerse, the director’s next project – zombie heist Army of the Dead – feels like the first confident steps of a fledgling franchise. Army of the Dead sees Dave Bautista’s Scott Ward assemble a motley crew of mechanics, …

DC Comics celebrates their Asian heroes and comic creators this week in DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration (opens in new tab). The 100-page anthology has an all-star line-up of creators that include Mariko Tamaki, Greg Pak, Gene Luen Yang, Dustin Nguyen, Amy Chu, Francis Manapul, and more, …

Warning: Major spoilers for the Jupiter’s Legacy comics and Netflix show ahead! Turn back now if you haven’t watched all 8 episodes on Netflix!  Jupiter’s Legacy details the formation of superhero team the Union in flashbacks to the ’20s and ’30s – and whizzes back to the present to show us …

It’s a beautiful day in Seattle and you’re a jerk cloud. No this isn’t the next Untitled Goose Game, but Rain On Your Parade – a new game from developer Unbound Creations – where you play as a cloud who just wants to ruin everyone’s day. But, if you like …

Returnal’s ending isn’t easy to find. Once you hit the credits of the game for the first time, you might think that you’ve got to the end of the game’s story, but there’s plenty more to discover. After all, Returnal is a roguelike, and you explore the game by dying …

Two weeks ago I set out to build a gaming PC, and let’s just say it was not an entirely smooth process. I’d watched all the recommended tutorials on YouTube, I’d read several seemingly exhaustive ‘how to’ guides, which chummily assured me it would be just like making a Lego …

COVID-19 has dismantled the very concept of the third place; the social environments which offer crucial spaces of connection and respite between our home lives and our work lives. With the pandemic squishing those latter two spheres into one, while ruling out the prospects of even attending most of our …

The Xbox Series S is a great way to get the benefits of the next-generation of console gaming, but without the need to upgrade to a 4K TV. It launched in November 2020 alongside the Xbox Series X, with the aim of offering improvements to performance and graphics, and a …