There are still so many potentially great games left to be released in 2023. Diablo 4, Final Fantasy 16, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3, and more will finish up one of the best years for new releases in recent memory. In the minds of some gamers, though, the 2023 Game of the Year
Month: May 2023
I never really had any doubt that Diablo 4 would be a fun game. It was easy to lose hours (even days) to Diablo 4’s betas. Through ups and downs, the Diablo games have long been fundamentally enjoyable to play. What worried me most about Diablo 4 was the game’s live-service structure and all of
Released: 28 June 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: PG Director: James Mangold Cast: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Running Time: 142 mins Time is not on Indiana Jones’ (Harrison Ford appearing in jarring de-aged CG and as himself in the present day) side in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,
I’m certainly not the first author to create an amateur sleuth who raises the dead. But in the Lavington Windsor series, our jobbing necromancer Toni gets to ask the murder victims who killed them, and I had so much fun creating situations where the poor old shambling corpses didn’t have a clue who had bumped
Director: Wes Anderson Writer: Wes Anderson Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum Running Time: 104 mins Wes Anderson’s 1950s-set, cosmic-themed Asteroid City (2023) won’t win over detractors. Not a single one. The revelling in artifice, the postmodernist smarty-pants command of craft, the deadpan
The Panharmonion Chronicles is a gritty thriller trilogy that grapples with the nature of time, reality and identity. The heady blend of science-fiction, horror and alternative history also includes some levity with hints of wry humour, pop culture and homage to music lovers of all genres. The story follows Alex Campbell, who is a Canadian
Sci-Fi-London is back to planet earth once more. Its 23rd incarnation, spread over several cinemas in Central London, boasts 13 new features,19 shorts, and a special retrospective screening of Peter Watkins’ post-nuclear faux documentary The War Game (1966) with a new live score. The eclectic programme includes films not just from the US, Canada and
Based on the 1973 short story by Stephen King and directed by Host and Dashcam’s Rob Savage, The Boogeyman follows high school student Sadie Harper (Sophie Thatcher) and her younger sister Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair), who are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will (Chris Messina), a therapist who
NHS workers are heroes who put up with a staggering amount of stress in their working lives, but has any medical professional been through more than Holby City Hospital’s Charlie Fairhead? As news arrives that actor Derek Thompson is finally hanging up his scrubs and leaving BBC medical drama Casualty this autumn after 37 years, the only
This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Succession. Backstabbing and betrayal are the cornerstones of Succession, and the series finale has no shortage of either. After learning from Greg (Nicholas Braun) that GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) is not planning to name her as the US CEO in the Waystar Royco merger
This article contains spoilers for the Succession series finale. After four seasons of family feuds, conniving CEOs and media mergers, the final credits have rolled on Succession. As Jesse Armstrong’s corporate comedy ushers in the next era of Waystar Royco and a new king is crowned, it was always clear there were going to be
Ah, Ready Steady Cook – you were a product of simpler times. The BBC’s teatime TV cooking show saw two contestants bring along a bag of ingredients, team up with a celebrity chef, (becoming Team Green Pepper and Team Red Tomato) and spend 20 minutes transforming what they’d brought into a tasty dinner. They only
Why are we fascinated by science fiction? Is it the opportunity to extrapolate technological and sociological trends beyond our current experience? Is it the way it helps us to appreciate our place in a vast and unknowable universe? Is it the way that it gives us a fresh perspective from which to examine the human
This article contains spoilers for all episodes of Saint X. Saint X will truly have audiences guessing until the very last moments. The series, which is adapted from Alexis Schaitkin’s novel, is told through multiple timelines with our main characters and after eight episodes, we finally have the truth that Emily (Alycia Debnam-Carey) and audiences
Hulu and 20th Century’s excellent Prey put the Predator franchise back on the map in 2022 with a very fresh take on the material, all but securing a future for a film series that had floundered in recent years after so many false starts. But what about the studio’s other massive sci-fi horror film saga?
Open-world games are a difficult balancing act. Crafting a large world for gamers to explore is completely detached from creating a world worth exploring. If a game’s world is devoid of content, then it doesn’t matter how much digital square footage the developers crammed into the title. In fact, a lack of worthwhile side adventures
The names of the great RPGs are etched into the history of gaming like caricatures of a civilization’s most legendary heroes upon the walls of a great city. The incredible adventures they take us on often set a standard that many other games try to equal. For as famous as some of the greatest RPGs
This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. In the early ’90s, game designer David Brevik took the beloved but financially struggling computer role-playing game (CRPG) genre and stripped it for parts. No elaborate character backstories, no morality system, and no dice roll-based decision-making. In Brevik’s words, he wanted to
While Diablo 4 will soon be released following about a decade of anticipation, some will actually be able to start playing the game sooner than others. That’s because, like many major modern new releases, Diablo 4 will allow some players to gain early access to the full game ahead of its official June 6 launch.
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