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The Edge Chronicles was an important book series for me growing up. Writer Paul Stewart and legendary illustrator Chris Riddell crafted a kid-friendly universe full of horrifying monsters, exotic locations and (best of all) sky pirates!…

A broken warrior trapped in a deep pit, the key to his salvation dropped from above by a mysterious figure in the night. You’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the intro to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the latest game from the Dark…

I was standing in College Green the other day, killing time, and one of the battle themes from Indivisible popped into my head. Once I worked it out, I tried to see how many more I could remember from memory alone; before long, I'd gone…

Fragments of life are dotted around Hallownest, burrowed into hidden nooks and secret passages throughout this kingdom of bugs. A mushroom mumbles to itself in a small fungal cave. Two gossiping beetles share a hot spring bath in a secret…

The Traveler in the original Destiny is still, over five years later, a breath-taking sight. The monolithic white sphere, so large it has a ring of orbiting debris, dominates the landscape surrounding The Last City. From your vantage point…

It’s 2 AM; I'm both completely wired and completely bollocksed. The only thing keeping me typing these words is the adrenaline (and caffeine) left in my system. It happened again: just one more go of Super Hexagon bled into a marathon…

Bayonetta is prog rock. When you listen to a classic album like Fragile by Yes, each track takes multiple ideas that could individually power an entire song, only to completely abandon them for the next motif twenty seconds later.…

Some of the most beautiful and affecting art pieces, whether it’s a song, a film or a game, are those that take a risk, that actively seek to distill an emotion or a feeling into a message that is universal in tone and true in nature.…

It really hits home when Lemmy Kilmister, a.k.a 'The Kill Master', asks Jack Black, here known as the roadie Eddie Riggs, to steal giant bass strings from the lair of a heavy metal spider queen: Brütal Legend is one-of-a-kind. Backed by…

A battlecry rings out as the words "Full Genie Jacket" slash across the screen. The battlefield freezes as the camera zooms in on Aladdin, here imagined as a gunslinger wielding his magic lamp as a weapon, charging up a powerful shot. The…