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Written by James P Blaylock Published by Titan Books • £7.99 Langdon St Ives, gentleman, scientist and adventurer, is having a bad day. A favour for the Royal Society has ended not only in a death but the loss of the priceless notebooks he was asked to procure and whilst …

The Walking Dead 3.08 review Episode 3.08 Writer: Robert Kirkman Director: Billy Gierhart THE ONE WHERE Rick and co get caught up in a gun battle; Michonne puts down the Governor’s undead daughter; and Merle and Daryl are reunited in rather unfortunate circumstances… VERDICT A nail-biting, action-packed episode, with some …

Here be dragons (well, a dragon) but here be no spoilers. Except, perhaps, that the next episode of Merlin features a dark tower. Every fantasy must have one… Into the dank cave of the Great Dragon enters a young seeker of spoilers, not put off by the fact that his …

Open-world games are marvels of modern technology and, as such, they usually have issues that are often condoned in favor of the bigger picture. Simplistic melee, sloppy gunplay, or loose driving can be ignored if everything else is strong. Sleeping Dogs (opens in new tab) made no such concessions on …

Though it’s desperate to be the next Jurassic Park , there’s little Spielbergian bite to this low-budget Brit flick. Instead we get wobbly cameras and equally wobbly acting from a cast of unknowns as a group of explorers hunt dinos in the Congo. The found-footage hook is starting to feel …

A Jack-The-Ripper-style murderer preys on young blonde women in fog-bound London in Hitchcock’s silent 1926 thriller, his first commercial and critical hit. Digitally restored and accompanied by a terrific Nitin Sawhney score, The Lodger sees the director drawing on German expressionism to conjure up his own brand of “pure cinema”. …

The rhythm genre is so firmly established in gaming that it’s strange how few music games exist that pay tribute to game music. Most franchises in gaming history probably couldn’t support their own rhythm game, but Final Fantasy is one of the few that could spawn its own music title …

There’s a fantastic moment halfway through Max Payne 3. The titular hero has reached his boiling point, shaved his head, and gone underground into Sao Paolo’s gritty favelas. Things are looking down. A local gang has robbed him of guns, watch, and even his sunglasses. He’s been kicked into a …

There’s a fantastic moment halfway through Max Payne 3. The titular hero has reached his boiling point, shaved his head, and gone underground into Sao Paolo’s gritty favelas. Things are looking down. A local gang has robbed him of guns, watch, and even his sunglasses. He’s been kicked into a …

If close-to-the-bone humour is your thing, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest is just what the dictator ordered. Crude, gut-busting gags come aplenty, with a sprinkling of satire as he delivers his first big-screen character to arrive without first gracing a TV show. Reputedly based on Colonel Gadaffi, Admiral General Aladeen is …