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Alex Garland, maestro of brainy sci-fi thrillers such as Ex Machina and Annihilation, takes a triumphant dive into freaky British folk horror with Men, a surreally gorgeous psychological shocker. A wildly ambitious and provocative piece, it sets fear bubbling up when Jessie Buckley’s newly widowed Harper arrives for a country …

Early in the second level of Trek to Yomi, our samurai hero Hiroki arrives at a deep ravine bridged by a fallen tree. A waterfall cascades in the background. A light breeze pushes through the grass and leaves. On the opposite bank stands a pair of murderous bandits, and as …

Much like the xenomorphs that inspired it, Nemesis: Lockdown represents the pinnacle of evolution. Building on everything that came before, it’s a monstrously ambitious cooperative board game. It all started because the Alien franchise is so popular. That means there’s a big appetite for board game spin-offs and a high …

The MSI Pulse GL66 seems to take us back in time. This is a stocky device, but there’s certainly no hiding the power under the hood. Kitted out with Intel’s latest 12th-generation processors, the latest Pulse iteration seeks to join some of the best gaming laptops on the market with …

Given the step up in scale – and, crucially, budget – that Viking epic The Northman represents for director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse), you’d be forgiven for thinking that his uniquely twisted sensibilities might have been watered down for his first studio picture. Thankfully, there’s a howling, hallucinatory …

After 17 years perfecting its formula, developer Traveller’s Tales has returned to the game that started it all and decided to redo LEGO Star Wars. But ‘redo’ doesn’t do justice to the ambition here. This is a completely new game, recreating not only the original trilogy of films in LEGO …

There’s something very enticing about the mix of nostalgia and sci-fi that Tales From the Loop taps into. Simon Stålenhag’s art book, with its mix of towering robots and teenage rebellions, evokes it with enough power that it’s spawned multiple media spin-offs. That now includes a board game where you …

Ghostwire: Tokyo will make you appreciate the little things in life. The dopamine hit derived from petting a dog wearing an adorable little bandana. How a sense of all-consuming wanderlust can accumulate as you breathe in the towering beauty of Japan’s opulent capital city. That feeling of calm that washes …

The new XGIMI Halo+ portable projector is a great unit for gaming or watching films on the go – which doesn’t compromise on picture quality, brightness, or battery life. This continues a strong trend and record in the projector market despite the company only releasing projectors since 2013. But it’s …

Mobile gaming has always held a niche subsection of the market; not quite large enough to take on the big guns, but still commanding a significant army of dedicated followers. Thanks to the Backbone One, that congregation finally has some decent tools.  At $99.99, the Backbone One iPhone controller has …