Good news: there’s a new Harry Potter movie and TV series in the works! Bad news: it is in no way the Harry Potter that you’re thinking of. In 1986, director John Carl Buechler released Troll, a low budget urban fantasy that’s since gone on to become something of a cult hit. The movie centred on a young boy’s quest to save his sister after she becomes possessed by a troll (who is also an ancient...
Originally released on the PlayStation 2 in 2004 in Japan, Dragon Quest VIII benefitted from the then-recent merger between Squaresoft and Enix, with the new, larger company better able to localise more Japanese games overseas. The Dragon Quest franchise had been Enix’s equivalent to Final Fantasy, but never enjoyed quite the same international reception outside of Japan as Square’s JRPG...
Updated 25.11.21. This article has been updated to make clear the distinction between Tourette’s syndrome and tics. A quote from Uttom Chowdhury has also been amended to make clear this distinction. Last summer, 17-year-old Eliza began experiencing mild but uncontrollable tics. Her nose would twitch, her eyes would shut and squint. By August, she had been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, and...
Every month Sony reveals its free game lineup for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita and it’s just lifted the lid on its selection for May 2017. From May 2, PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to access the new games from the store on their consoles. Tales from the Borderlands – PS4 This five-part series from Telltale Games is set in the world of Pandora and follows the events of Borderlands 2 as...
Eric signed up for Netflix in around 2005 – drawn in by the convenience. Instead of going to the local branch of Blockbuster to rent a movie, if you waited a couple of days it would arrive in the post, without you having to leave the house. And there was a huge selection of titles – much wider than a small local rental place would be able to stock. “I could sit at home and get almost any movie I...
Aliens, astronauts, time travel—you name it, there’s a dazzling sci-fi film about it. That makes compiling a list of the best sci-fi nearly impossible. It’s hard to know where to start, and where to stop. To understand where sci-fi films came from, you need to head back to the dawn of the cinema age. Right at the beginning, Metropolis, released in 1927, used groundbreaking visuals to create a...
Nintendo didn’t have much of a showing at this year’s E3 or Gamescom, choosing to focus on the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – the Wii U’s swan song – rather than on the mysterious NX console or the existing Nintendo 3DS. That changed with today’s Nintendo Direct broadcast, which was entirely focused on the plucky handheld. Nintendo unveiled six major new games coming to the...
For one weekend only, more than 800 London buildings are opening their doors so you can explore the city like never before. Open House London is a city-wide celebration of most historically and architecturally interesting places, which are usually overlooked. Now in its 25th year, on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 of September, the capital will be yours. Whether you want to see inside Europe’s largest...
Instant Games works perfectly well in chats with just two partners, but comes alive in group chats – between housemates or co-workers, for instance. Each group gets its own leaderboard, and you’ll be able to tease your rivals with reaction GIFs as you trounce their records. You can also screencap your victory screens, add doodles, and share them to a chatroom for bragging purposes. Friends can...
Netflix has made another move to secure more original anime content, with the announcement that upcoming series Perfect Bones will debut worldwide on the platform The series, the release of which Netflix calls “a milestone in anime distribution innovation”, is set to be a sci-fi thriller dealing with genetic enhancements, conspiracies, and rival organisations manipulating the future of humanity...