Review

The Vizio V51 soundbar range has a new entry: the V51x-J6. This is a soundbar that is one of those unsuspecting pieces of tech that looks quiet – and is anything but. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Vizio V51x-J6, especially if you’re in the market for a new soundbar – …

For those who haven’t managed to catch the exemplary doc Won’t You Be My Neighbor? or didn’t grow up Stateside with his lilting, gentle advice, Mr. Rogers may be at best a mystery and at worse, an irrelevance. But Can You Ever Forgive Me? director Marielle Heller expertly manages to …

Game Freak’s new self-published RPG asks a lot from players in return for an enchanting, (although small) world, and immensely satisfying combat system. What it asks is for players to endure prevalent performance issues throughout, a tedious story, lacklustre characters, and a bit of patience learning how to do battle. …

When even the largest TV doesn’t cut it, projectors give you the biggest entertainment experience possible in your own home. BenQ’s new TH671ST is priced where mid-range meets top-end – it sells for £649 / $699, which is about the same as the mid-range options in our best gaming TV …

If Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is proof of anything, it’s that life is better with a bit of evolution behind it. Sure, 2019 has its problems, but at least I’m not crawling through a swamp on broken limbs, guts in a mess because of some ill-thought-out snacking on a mushroom, …

Already this year we’ve seen the Superbad formula – best friends desperate to score before they graduate from high school – winningly gender-flipped in Booksmart (opens in new tab). In Good Boys, director Gene Stupnitsky and his writing partner Lee Eisenberg (Year One, Bad Teacher) attempt to pull off the …

Prepare to spend far too much of your time worrying if you’ve put the toilet too near the cocktail bar and praying monsters don’t smash your new shower room to bits, because Dragon Quest Builders 2 is back to make its mix of Minecraft style building, Harvest Moon farming and …

Midsommar, the sophomore feature from writer/director Ari Aster, arrives in cinemas barely 12 months after Hereditary, his calling-card first feature. Hereditary wasn’t just an arresting and confident debut, it was also one of the best (and scariest) horror films of the decade. So, naturally, Aster’s follow-up comes burdened with expectation. …

There’s a moment when I think I’ve gone too far. Piranha Plants fill the bottom half of the screen, flying Koopas the top half, and somewhere in between is Mario using swinging claws to propel himself through the madness towards, I hope, a successful finish. But Super Mario Maker 2, …

You awake, your boat caught in the jaws of an eldritch god – hysterical chants from cracks in the ocean floor have wormed their way into the minds of the residents of The Sinking City – and it’s your job to investigate the source.  Frogwares’ love letter to Lovecraft starts …