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As second games go, Scrolls isn’t a departure for Minecraft maker Mojang so much as a full-on transatlantic flight with no return ticket. Minecraft is the everygame, simple enough on the surface to be accessible to all, and with endless creative potential inches beneath its cuboid topsoil. Scrolls is a …

By the high standards of the Breaking Bad universe, “Nacho” is a little disappointing. That’s largely because it hangs on a mystery – the disappearance of embezzler Craig Kettleman and family – that turns out not to be all that interesting. Jimmy cracks the case pretty easily (simply by wandering …

In every season of The Walking Dead, there’s at least one episode where the cast aimlessly trudge around, fretting about death and zombies and that, while the audience impatiently waits for the next attack. “Them” is season five’s, but with one important difference – it’s really good. The death of …

Cybercrime and punishment. Despite opening in the US just weeks after the Sony hack made international headlines, Michael Mann’s cyber-thriller failed to fire the synaptic circuitry of the American public, scoring poorly at the box office. The collective-shrug reviews didn’t help, though that is the downside of being a master …

What a funny old game Turtle Rock has made. Not Joe Pesci ‘I’m going to shiv you over this plate of linguini’ funny. It’s more ‘unpredictable downright confounding, but against all olds, occasionally brilliant’ funny. There’s the core of a great premise here: you can’t get much more viscerally primal …

Release Date: 29 January 2015400 pages | Hardback/ebookAuthor: Neal AsherPublisher: Tor The Polity books have never been for the faint-hearted. Replete with über-violence, more gore than you’d find on a planet-sized abattoir and the nagging sense that something horrible might happen at any moment, these are SF novels that mix …

Marvel may have perfected their billion dollar formula on the big screen, but on TV they’ve been a studio in search of a format. After Agents Of SHIELD spent 17 episodes finding its feet clearly a new approach was in order. On the basis of this eight episode miniseries’ opening …

If EastEnders and Coronation Street thought they had the monopoly on dramatic weddings, they should think again. After the bloodbath of last year’s “Red Wedding” , this year’s Purple Wedding proves just as eventful, ending as it does with the groom, King Joffrey, having a rather nasty (and fatal) reaction …

A PHAROAH TO REMEMBER… After two middling installments, the third Night At The Museum is finally one to remember – though not perhaps for the reasons Ben Stiller and director Shawn Levy might have hoped for when they began shooting their London-based trilogy-closer last February. Since then, of course, we’ve …

A couple of weeks back we were congratulating SHIELD on creating a rarity: a “memory recovery” sequence that wasn’t just random, freaky images, but looked great and made narrative sense too. Sadly, this week’s otherwise strong episode kicks off with a very poor example of another well-worn telefantasy trope; the …