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What's left to say about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? What hasn't been written about the 19th best selling video game of all time? There have certainly been better RPGs. There are RPGs with more focus, with grander scale and with better…

Charlie Parker would have been a chin-stroking one hundred years of age this month. Kloop. Mop. Rebop. Apocalypse. Happy birthday, with a whirlwinding flurry of breathless demisemiquavers on top. He was Bird. His nickname. And we were bird…

Red Dead Redemption was the blueprint. Other games like Assassin's Creed were trying to do similar things but only Red Dead Redemption and its sequel would perfect the flawed desire for endless freedom in an open, hostile game world. It was…

It's hard to forget a game that, within its first 10 minutes, allowed you to gouge out Posidon's eyes, snap his neck and kick his corpse off a cliff. God of War III by virtue of its ferocity alone remains an all-timer. It's gory,…

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…

"Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture." - Ed Wood In 1988 director Tim Burton exploded onto cinema screens with the classic Beetlejuice. This was not his first outing but his first to reach wide acclaim,…

I still remember when I saw the trailer for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I couldn’t tell you what film I was in the cinema to see, but I vividly recall watching a sepia-tinged airship crawl across the sky before New York City was…

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.…

When the first promotional images for Batman: Arkham Asylum arrived in Summer 2008, it felt very much like business as usual. Throughout the 00s, licensed superhero games were common enough, many of them looked like they'd be winners early…

Communists, even today, are still considered the bad guys. Not as bad as the Nazis but still pretty bad. So it was kind of strange when ten years ago Volition released Red Faction: Guerrilla. This was the same year Infinity Ward released…