Zoo City, the new book from SA author and journalist Lauren Beukes, synthesises a mix of volatile ingredients into an explosive concoction. Like her previous book, Moxyland, Zoo City is beguiling mash-up of different genres and fractured pop culture references. The novel is a bleak urban fantasy, soaked in muti, and shot through with moments [...]
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles wrapped up on Thursday. Lance Harris looks at the best and worst to emerge from the world’s biggest gaming trade show in 2010. Coolest new tech of the show: Nintendo 3DS Nintendo’s 3DS is an amazing little device that renders convincing 3D images without the player needing [...]
Microsoft has moved to claim the high ground for its Xbox 360 line-up ahead of the official opening of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on Tuesday in Los Angeles by announcing launch details for its “Project Natal” motion-controlled interface at two separate press events. The software giant told expo delegates that its motion-sensing camera
“Your weapon is choice,” boasts the box of Alpha Protocol, the new espionage roleplaying game (RPG) from Obsidian Entertainment. If my weapon is choice, perhaps I have should’ve chosen something else. I should have chosen to replay Mass Effect 2. It’s not that Alpha Protocol is completely awful. There are many things to like about [...]
With Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games has nailed the Western genre so perfectly in videogame format that no-one else should even bother to try. It’s a work of staggering ambition that takes in Sergio Leone’s epic sweep, Sam Peckinpah’s brutality, Deadwood’s grim humour and John Ford’s iconic Western landscapes, and all with apparent ease. Developed [...]
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer was perhaps Disney’s safest choice to turn the videogame, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, into a movie. After all, he’s the guy who took a slim premise from a theme park ride and fashioned it into the witty and rousing Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. [...]
Remedy Software, the small Finnish developer responsible for Max Payne 1 and 2, believes in making its audience wait for its games. Five years after Remedy announced Alan Wake was in development, the long-anticipated horror-action game is finally here as an exclusive for the Xbox 360. And as usual, the quality of the product more [...]
How does a serious man live with purpose when life often feels like an unfunny prank? And why do bad things happen to good people? Those are but two of the many bedevilling questions that drive A Serious Man, the
Iron Man 2, the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster about the Marvel comic book character, plays it safe with the formula that turned its predecessor into a smash hit. That means it never feels as fresh as Iron Man, but also that you’re likely to have a blast with Iron Man 2 if you enjoyed [...]
Talk about pressure. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction is a homecoming for the studio responsible for the best game in a popular franchise, a much-hyped console exclusive for the Xbox 360, and a title that has been in the works for about four years. Few games could live up to that level of expectation — [...]
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