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Tuesday, 16 August 2016

South Park The Fractured But Whole will literally fart in your face

South Park: The Fracture But Whole will literally fart in your face

New Release Date for FINAL FANTASY XV

NEW RELEASE DATE SET FOR FINAL FANTASY XV

To deliver the iconic FINAL FANTASY experience to audiences around the world, SQUARE ENIX® today announced that the global release date for FINAL FANTASY® XV will be November 29, 2016.

This release date will allow the development teams time to further polish and conduct quality testing so that the reality of the game can match the expectations of both the fans and the creative teams.

“From the moment we joined this project, our vision was to create a level of freedom and realism previously unseen in the series. Regrettably, we need a little bit more time to deliver on this vision and are confident that this new release date will help us achieve this,” said Hajime Tabata the game director. “As the director and lead of this project, I wish to personally apologize for the additional wait. As a team, we want FINAL FANTASY XV to achieve a level of perfection that our fans deserve. We kindly ask for your understanding.”

Full comments from Tabata are available here

We’ll notify whether the release dates for the disc version of both KINGSGLAIVE: FINAL FANTASY XV™ and BROTHERHOOD FINAL FANTASY XV™ will be changed or unchanged at a later time.

Monday, 15 August 2016

Win 45 Years on DVD

Kate Mercer is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary.

One week before the celebration a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff, containing news that the body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps.

Kate continues to prepare for the party, but she becomes increasingly concerned by Geoff’s preoccupation with the letter and the startling revelations about his former life.

As their anniversary gets closer, and they delve further into the past, their future is left in question.

Anchored by sensational performances from Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, 45 YEARS is an intimate, moving and beautiful portrait of a marriage shaken to its core by things left unspoken. Winning Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival, 45 YEARS is British filmmaking at its very best.

Thanks to Madman Home Ent, you can win a copy of 45 Years!

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In the subject line put 45 YEARS!

Please include your name and address and good luck!

Sunday, 14 August 2016

Kubo and The Two Strings: Film Review

Cast: Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Rooney Mara, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Travis Knight

The library of Laika's contribution to the animated cinematic world is scattered with greatness.

From the button eyes of Coraline through to the madcap world of The Boxtrolls, via ParaNorman, each of the studio's stop motion films have stood out visually from the CGI generated fare from the likes of Pixar and other contenders.

But Kubo and The Two Strings may be their greatest success yet, a story that is visually dazzling.

Game of Thrones star Art Parkinson lends his vocal talents to Kubo, a one-eyed young boy who tends to his ailing mother by night, and visits the local town's market by day to earn money by telling stories. Wowing the crowds with his tales of a samurai (brought to life by the magic of paper and music), and keeping a wooden monkey protective charm close at his mother's urging, Kubo is not allowed to stay out at night.

Because Kubo's family is steeped in tragedy, with his mother having fled to escape her vengeful sisters... however, Kubo inadvertently disobeys his mother and sets in motion a chain of events that manifests itself in a quest against evil involving a monkey (voiced by Theron), a beetle (McConaughey) and Kubo....

Suffusing the familial with the fantastical and blending in a great deal of emotion, Kubo and The Two Strings is a great success, even if its desire to explain and expound its themes ties it up a little in its own intricate web toward the end.

Wrapping the mystical trappings of Japanese culture, this samurai quest tale is both a celebration of the art of story-telling, rendered popular by oral histories from the likes of Homer, and a complete story of its own, with Kurosawa elements fused inexorably into its DNA. While parts of the narrative take a nightmarish turn, there are questions as to whether this fable is more aimed to adults rather than children - and its desire to remind us about relatives gone and ancestors past is a noble and worthy cause that leads to a emotionally powerful conclusion.

And yet, despite its perfection in stop-motion execution, there are moments within Kubo and The Two Strings which feel flawed narratively. A confused outpouring of the story initially fuses the film with muddled moments and leave the epic quest slightly floundering as you try to work out some of the darker story elements and familial conflict. And the arrival of Matthew McConaughey's Beetle sees the film flounder into more comedy than perhaps is welcome given the darker tones of what has progressed (Though perhaps that's cos it's aiming toward the kiddies).

Despite that, Laika's eye for stop-motion and the seamless crafting of the Eastern elements more than make up for any short-comings that are present in this wondrous tale. (And don't even stop to consider that once again Laika has an obsession with eyes in this latest).

The originality of the mix of the Japanese fables and mythology, along with an Asian influenced OST, are what carries this film and the visual execution of these elements see Laika soar - and despite the feeling that honing some of the narrative elements for more clarity, Kubo and The Two Strings is easily a contender for one of the films of the year.

It's a sure sign this studio Laika is achieving greatness and is only about to unleash more on the world - and that is no bad thing whatsoever. The film starts by uttering the words "If you must blink, do it now". You'd be wise to heed that warning, because once it begins, you won't be able to tear your eyes away from a second of it.

The Shallows: Film Review

Cast: Blake Lively, A shark, A seagull, the ocean
Director: Jaume Collet Serra

Ever since Jaws terrified the world, there's always been an inherent and undeniable phobia of open water and sharks.

And cinema's been trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle effect again - in some forms of success, with the likes of the darkness of Open Water to the ongoing schlockiness of the Sharknado series.

So the latest contender is a trim 85 minute thriller starring former Gossip Girl star Blake Lively as Nancy, a former med student who's dealing with the death of her mother and dropping out of college by way of coping. Heading to a hidden beach in Mexico that her mother surfed at the day she found out she was pregnant, Nancy's determined to catch some waves and reconnect spiritually to her.

But when a shark attacks, her journey soon shifts away from the spiritual to a desperate fight to ensure she survives the night stranded on a reef, and can work out what to do when high tide comes in....

The Shallows largely dramatically paints itself into a corner.

However, for the most part of the film, Collet-Serra (known for Liam Neeson thrillers Unknown and Non-Stop) and Lively manage to convince of the isolation and creeping fear.

It helps that Collet-Serra's cinematographer, Flavio Labiano has done an excellent job, with some truly stunningly lit underwater sequences (a jellyfish minefield stands out) and sweeping shots of the beauty of the beach around Nancy. In parts, The Shallows feels like a surfer's piece of wave porn then mixed with the National Geographic shark porn elements as the CGI beast circles around. With others caught in the shark's sights, the blues and azures turn into a blood-soaked red water that fill the screen; an early shadowy shot of the shark in a wave tube that's being surfed - visually, it's hard to fault the work this film does.

Some directorial flourishes mark out the film's B-movie pretensions and there are one too many shots of Lively's svelte figure slipping into a wet suit or through the waves to hang 10, but in its early stages, The Shallows largely achieves what it's aspiring to do.

It helps that Lively's subtle facials and the short running time sell the basic concept of survival, even if the narrative conveniences threaten to put all out to sea (a med student who's seriously injured just being one of the more obvious and helpful when she's chomped on and needs to use her own jewellery as a sewing kit). Her bonding with an injured seagull on the coral is as much akin to Wilson in Castaway as you're likely to get and could be someone else if you're looking deep into this, but not once when in the water, does Lively lose sight of what makes Nancy human and fallible in this battle against nature.

An over-reliance on clunky exposition at the start, via a clever use of smartphones on screen or Nancy's American tourist babbling to her definitely-not-interested guide seem to be trying to inject some character that's not really there, weird time jumps and a terribly pointless saccharine coda are just a couple of the problems of The Shallows.

Ultimately though, the film lapses into silliness and growing ludicrous touches which is what a schlockbuster audience want but which betrays what the film has spent a lot of time aspiring to, with its more spiritual edges and its fight for resilience and survival giving some of the suspense early on.

Losing sight of the fact that shark films work best when they're hardly seen, Collet-Serra's conclusion to the film is dangerously silly and works against it.

In the final wash, The Shallows has parts that betray its own title, but an insistence on going for the hoorah shark porn moments on the screen sink the film back into more than adequate B-movie territory and ultimately leave you feeling you've been treading cinematic water.

Win The Belier Family on DVD

A captivating new star is born in THE BÉLIER FAMILY, Eric Lartigau’s fabulous, heart-felt comedy hit about a young girl whose close bond to her hearing-impaired family is challenged by the discovery of an extraordinary talent for music.

In the Bélier family, everyone is deaf, except dutiful sixteen-year-old Paula (beautiful newcomer Louane Emera). She acts as an indispensible interpreter for her parents and younger brother, especially in the running of the family dairy farm.

Though her salt-of-the-earth father (François Damiens) has decided to run for mayor – spurred on by her vivacious but over-involved mother (indelibly portrayed by Karin Viard) – Paula’s attentions are very much elsewhere. She’s witnessed the handsome new boy at school sign up for the choir, and impulsively joined too. It’s not long before her music teacher (Éric Elmosnino) discovers her considerable talent, however his encouragement only exacerbates the matter of Paula’s independence.

Building to a heart-soaring and emotional finale, THE BÉLIER FAMILY is a feel-great triumph. Emera, making her screen debut after being discovered on the French edition of The Voice, is a genuine revelation – she lends both sincerity and joy to this deeply moving film that has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

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Saturday, 13 August 2016

45 Years: DVD Review

Released by Madman Home Ent

With an Oscar nomination in tow for Charlotte Rampling's performance, 45 Years arrives with a certain amount of expectation surrounding it.

Essentially a two-hander, it's the acutely observed story of Kate and Geoff (Rampling and Courtenay respectively) in the week before they hit their 45th wedding anniversary. Geoff's world is changed (and subsequently Kate's) when he receives a letter from abroad telling him authorities have found the perfectly preserved body of his former girlfriend Katye in the ice after she fell into a crevasse.

This simple piece of news sends more than just ripples through their marriage and suddenly, the past threatens their future...

There's no denying the subtlety and the presence of these two powerhouse actors in this film, and there's a suggested history between the pair that's more often than not hinted at rather than explicitly explored (such as Geoff's heart bypass glimpsed in fleeting undressed shots, music choices pointing out the irony of what's ahead). It's in moments like these that 45 Years transcends and delivers something poignant without ever crossing the line.

The shocks that come within are smaller-scale but nevertheless devastating in their domestic destruction.

Kate's foundations are shaken by a withdrawing of Geoff who retreats into his memories and as the mistrust inevitably begins to permeate their very DNA, Haigh manages to keep each moment realistically shot and restrain his camera from invading and exploiting every scene.

From the opening shots which begin each day of the apparent calm of the English countryside where the pair lives (never has the country seemed so menacing, as if something rotten lies within its idyll) to the re-staging of their first dance, the cinematography remains a classy affair. Conversations are never glimpsed fully on and make the viewer complicit but never accountable in events as they transpire.

And yet, despite all of that, and the power of performances (why Courtenay has not been mentioned in the same award breath as Rampling is nothing short of a tragedy), there's an aloofness and an unanswered edge to the film that proves as much of a frustration to the viewer. It's never explained why the reveal is so devastating to Kate and why her reaction to the news and the regrets of the past are so likely to shake the foundations after some 40 plus years; sure, the past is the past, but it seems odd that the prism of the present is so dwarfed in what is happening.

Sure, Rampling delivers a turn that hinges on the quiver of an eye or a lip and in one scene alone a whimper conveys more than dialogue ever could, but sympathy for her's and Geoff's plight is remarkably short on materializing.

There's a muted atmosphere that is so entrenched in 45 Years and while it's no bad thing that everything's gleaned rather than outright discussed, when viewed under the microscope of awards talk, this subtle film comes up ever so slightly short.

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Friday, 12 August 2016

Announcing release date of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game of the Year Edition

CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce the release date of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game of the Year Edition

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game of the Year Edition offers over 150 hours of open world adventures and sees players take on the role of professional monster slayer Geralt of Rivia, as he seeks out the child of prophecy in Wild Hunt, faces off against a ruthless bandit captain in Hearts of Stone, and unravels the terrifying secret of the beautiful region of Toussaint in Blood and Wine.

Game of the Year Edition includes the critically acclaimed base game, winner of over 250 GOTY awards and most lauded game of 2015 with over 800 awards in total, both expansion packs --Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine -- and every piece of downloadable content, as well as every update and improvement ever released.

The game will release on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on August 30th, 2016.

In the United States, the PlayStation 4 version of the game will be available as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition.

Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist DLC Out Now

JUST CAUSE 3: BAVARIUM SEA HEIST DLC AVAILABLE NOW

Brand New Gameplay Trailer Available Now

SYDNEY, 12^th August 2016 – Square Enix® and Avalanche Studios™ today announced that JUST CAUSE 3®: BAVARIUM SEA HEIST™, the third and final content pack of the AIR, LAND & SEA Expansion Pass, is now available to all expansion pass holders, and will go on sale as a separate add-on for everyone else from August 18^th.

“Our aim with the Air, Land & Sea Expansion Pass was to completely alter the way players tackle the game and we’ve achieved just that,” said Marcus Andrews, Lead Designer of the Air, Land & Sea content at Avalanche Studios. “Each of the three packs of new tools allows the player to wreak havoc in fresh, creative, and unique ways that ensures both new and existing fans of Just Cause 3 will have hours of additional content and an enormous number of ways to approach any situation”.

Brave the dangerous waters of West Medici in your new rocket boat and infiltrate the Stingray, a mysterious research facility, home of the rarest and strongest weapon ever created by the Eden Corporation. This content pack includes a brand new location to explore, missions, a new challenge type, the heavily armed rocket boat and the devastating “Eden Spark” lightning gun.

· Liberate the Medici coastal waters of Scolio, home to Eden Research stations and the mysterious “Stingray” base.

· Drive the deadly rocket boat “Loochador”, using its multi-lock missile launchers and miniguns to defeat the formidable Black Hand Fleet.

· Infiltrate the Stingray base to steal the deadly “Eden Spark” lightning gun and unleash elemental death on your enemies in all new storyline and missions.

· Power up the Eden Spark further with mods earned in the “Boat Invader” challenge.

The Belier Family: DVD Review

Released by Madman Home Ent

This French film which played earlier in the year at the French Film Festival is one of the contenders for your time.

It's the story of the Belier family, who run a farm for a living in a small village in France. But their lives are different from others as three-quarters of them are deaf; the husband Rodolphe, the wife Gigi and the son Quentin. The only exception and window to the world outside is 16 year old Paula (Louane Emera) who hears normally but who interprets for the family.

However, that bond between the Belier family is challenged when Paula signs up for a music class at school because she likes one of the boys who also signs up. Equally challenging is that she discovers her voice and has a chance to go on to greater things in a national audition - but that would mean leaving her family behind.

There are moments in The Belier Family that are clearly pitched for farce rather than the usual solemn disability flick. The parents are sex-crazed animals, with one of the earlier scenes seeing Paula stuck in the middle at a doctor's appointment and trying to rationalise with her father to use the cream while her mother presses on with her desire to copulate. Also, the script sizzles with zingers like one telling Paula her moping over the boy makes her "like Bella from Twilight".

But at the same time in among the occasionally off-kilter silliness and at times over-acting (chiefly from Viard as the mother), there are some genuinely moving moments - and a star-making turn from the Chloe Grace-Moretz like Emera as the family rock, torn by her own coming of age and her love and familial bond.

One of the scenes that delves deep into poignancy of the drama and tragedy is a family confrontation when the mother reveals her heartache in discovering that her daughter can hear at birth and how she was different by not being deaf like them - it's dripping in sadness and guilt that is universal and touchingly delivered, never over-milked for the moment.

However, there are also frustrations - a side plot involving Rodolphe going for town mayor forms the start of the film and then simply falls by the wayside is one of the chief casualties as this relatively predictable tale plays out.

Thankfully, anchored by a star-making turn from Emera (I defy you to hold back the tears as she unleashes her audition song Je Vole by Michel Sardou while simultaneously signing for her parents in the audience) which is perfectly pitched, The Belier Family hits the right emotional notes and soars. Balancing the awkwardness, frailty and vulnerability of the self-deluded confidence of a teenager while never losing any of her appeal and over-playing the conflict, Emera is the main reason to see this French feel-good film that'll remind you of following your dreams while never forgetting where you came from.

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Thursday, 11 August 2016

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter teaser trailer drops

Here's your first look at the very last chapter of the Resident Evil franchise. Due out on January 27, 2017..

Based on Capcom’s hugely popular video game series comes the final installment in the most successful video game film franchise ever, which has grossed over $1 billion worldwide to date

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

Written and Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Ruby Rose, Eoin Macken, Rola Lee Joon-Gi with William Levy and Iain Glen

Dead Rising is coming back

2016 is the year of Dead Rising and what better way to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of the series than to re-live the classic zombie outbreaks. Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 andDead Rising 2: Off the Record will be coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 for digital download on September 13^th, 2016 across Europe and North America. The original Dead Rising will also be available on Steam as a digital download. What a time to be undead!

All three titles will return to take advantage of the current gen hardware systems, bringing the hilarious horror up to a gory-ous 1080p at 60 fps. Each new version of the game will also include all of the additional previously released DLC costumes.

Dead Rising

Re-live the zombie outbreak that started it all and step into the shoes of freelance photojournalist Frank West. On the hunt for the scoop of a lifetime, a tip leads Frank to the small suburban town of Willamette that’s been overrun by zombies. It’s a true struggle to survive the endless stream of enemies, but with full reign of an entire shopping mall, Frank can use any items he can find to fight off the flesh hungry mob and search for the truth behind the nightmarish epidemic. Don’t forget to capture the insanity on film and show off those photo journalist skills along the way!

Dead Rising 2

The sequel to the original Dead Rising introduces Chuck Greene, a professional motorcycle racer. Surrounded by a huge horde of zombies in the casino town of Fortune City, Chuck finds himself in a race against time to obtain Zombrex, a life-saving drug that will keep his daughter Katey alive. Dead Rising 2 also takes the series one step further with the introduction of combo weapons like the “PaddleSaw”, two player co-op and thrilling four player gladiator battles.

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

Photo journalist and original hero Frank West takes center stage to find his biggest scoop yet, returning in a reimagining of the Fortune City casino town from Dead Rising 2. The added Sandbox Mode allows players to explore the city and participate in deathly challenges, while Frank’s photo skills and upgraded camera features capture all of the violent and hilarious action up close.

Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record will be available to purchase as individual download titles on September 13^th for EUR 19.99 / GBP 15.99 / USD 19.99. All three titles are also available as a “Dead Rising Triple Pack” preorder bundle for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 for EUR 49.99 / GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99.

Happy zombie slaying!

DOOM Unto the Evil DLC now available

DOOM’s first premium DLC pack, Unto the Evil, is available now for download worldwide on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for AUD $23.95 / NZD $26.95, and PC for USD $15!

Unto the Evil is the first of three premium DLC Packs bringing all-new multiplayer content to the award-winning first-person shooter, DOOM. With three new maps to dominate, one new playable demon to unleash, a new weapon to master, a new equipment item, and a host of new armor sets, taunts, and Hack Modules, Unto the Evil offers players even more ways to expand and customize their fast-paced multiplayer experience.

LEGO® Star Wars™: The Force Awakens FREE Phantom Limb DLC

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced the release of The Phantom Limb Level Pack for LEGO® Star Wars™: The Force Awakens, along with a new video showcasing this exciting downloadable (DLC) content, which is available today as a FREE download download exclusively for players on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.

The Phantom Limb Level Pack extends the LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens experience, continuing the story from the Trouble Over Taul Level — one of the New Adventures set in the time leading up to the film — after C-3PO’s ship crash lands on the barren planet of Taul, allowing players to discover the thrilling events that led to his new red arm and reunion with the Resistance. This add-on content includes The Phantom Limb (Level), C-3PO (Taul), 2MED2, CO-34, GNK-189, MSE-Y, O-MR1 (Taul),PZ-99 (Taul), VL-44 (Taul), CR90 Corvette (Full-size Vehicle) and CR90 Corvette (Microfighter Vehicle).

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens marks the triumphant return of the No. 1 LEGO videogame franchise, immersing fans in the new Star Wars adventure like never before. Players can relive the epic action from the blockbuster film in a way that only LEGO can offer, featuring storylines from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, retold through the clever and witty LEGO lens. The game also features playable content exploring previously untold adventures set in the time leading up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as original dialogue from key members of the theatrical cast, providing the most authentic Star Wars for experience for players, including Harrison Ford (Han Solo), John Boyega (Finn), Daisy Ridley (Rey), Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) and other top stars from the film. LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is available now for PlayStation 4 system, PlayStation 3 system, PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Windows PC (Steam), Mac (Steam), on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac and on Google Play for Android devices.

Wednesday, 10 August 2016

We Happy Few: XBox One Preview

Platform: XBox One
Developer: Compulsion Games

The tone for dystopian nightmare We Happy Few is set very early on.

Sat in an office, mindlessly censoring or approving snippets of information sent to you in cannisters, you are reminded it's time to take your Joy pill. So far, so depressing and so familiar to many office drones, trapped in a daily 9 to 5.

But refusing to take your pill and biffing them into a cannister, the world seems to clarify around you.

However, what transpires next as you're invited to a pinata party is truly nightmarish as a group circles around a table, chanting at you to hit the pinata with masks of warped joy on their faces. It's like something out of the League of Gentlemen - and it concludes in truly warped fashion as it's revealed the pinata is actually a rat and people are scrabbling to eat it.

Though in many ways, this garish start is perfect for We Happy Few; it's a bolt upright reveal that boldly sets the tone for Compulsion Games' trip to an alternative 1960s England.

And it's pretty warped as the game plays out.

Once you've recovered from the shock reveal, the game drops you into a bunker underground and you have to head out and basically survive. From dealing with thirst to injuries that prove to be mortal if untended, We Happy Few's emphasis may well be on survival but it's also an exploration game with some combat thrown in for equal measure as well.

Wandering around gets you into the company of others, and lets you explore the world of Wellington Wells, that would appear to be the antithesis of a Disney-esque version of a British surrounding. And as you struggle to survive more, the idea becomes that you have to get by without anyone suspecting that you're off your meds and a danger.

The alpha stage of We Happy Few is certainly a stylish blast of an alternative world that really wouldn't be out of place in the annals of the likes of Brit sci-fi anthology 2000AD. Its blackness and crueller edges are what set it above the rest of its ilk, but it really does need a little more story to keep you hooked.

Exploring is fruitful but the idea of where to go and what to do is somewhat lacking. While that direction is perhaps laudable, it soon means the stylish elements are what remain in your mind, rather than story-led rug pulls.

Graphically, the game is excellent, with the sense of unease crawling off the screen and under your skin without any kind of warning. It's creepy and unsettling and that really marks out in this world where everything is similar or an ever-so slightly unusual version of similar.

Ultimately Compulsion Games' alpha shows the reasons that We Happy Few really stood out at E3 - it's a demonstration of something unique and hopefully something a little more original. It scores highly for a truly out of the box opening that really does offer some visual shocks and set the tone for what lies ahead - darkly delicious and potentially devious, with some more indication of what's expected, it looks like We Happy Few could be a force to be reckoned with.

Win No Man's Sky on PS4

It's the most anticipated game of the year - No Man's Sky!

Your Universe Awaits in No Man’s Sky on PS4.

Forge your own path through a living, breathing universe on an unprecedented scale and discover new worlds from a possible 18 quintillion unique planets.

Uncover new species, gather precious resources and forever make your mark on the galactic map.

Thanks to PlayStation we are giving away one copy of the game.

To find out more about No Man's Sky on PS4, click here

To win a copy of No Man's Sky, all you have to do is email me what you would name a planet if you discovered one!

To enter simply email to this address: darrensworldofentertainment@gmail.com OR simply CLICK HERE

In the subject line put NO MAN'S SKY and remember to give me your planet name!

Please include your name and address and good luck!

This competition's open to residents of New Zealand only and will close on August 24th!

Good luck!

Tricky Towers: PS4 Review

Platform: PS4
Released by Weirdbeard Games
Coming to PS Plus in August

Tetris is an obsession.

A global obsession if you will - simply sliding the blocks into place, building structures and keeping it together under pressure has always been a fun past time.

Well, Weirdbeard Games has realised that and has crafted this mash up of Tetris and also bizarrely, the graphics and gruntings of a Rayman game. Brick stacking has never been anything less than passably entertaining and occasionally addictive and Weirdbeard's embraced that in Tricky Towers.

All you have to do is stack a series of bricks, a la Tetris and ensure they don't fall over, wiping out both your structure and your life. Seems easy right? But that's not all of it - using magic and the wizards you are in charge of can help sway the game your way.

The game's MO is very simple - it rotates between different challenges which unlock further challenges. Stack bricks over a certain level to win, rotate bricks into a puzzle that's in front of you or make sure you stack all of the bricks that are thrown your way without losing three times - there's little but variations on a theme in play here. However, it's surprising how quickly you become frustrated at the end of a level and dive back in again at the start.

Physics play a part in the game as well - one simple mistake of stacking and it's all over. There are spells to help bind the blocks but they don't always help save the day given that if they fall, they fall. Multiplayer is yet to work properly on the game because it's not fully launched yet as this was early access review - though one imagines it will follow a similar pattern of taking one friends in competition levels.

Local co-op is there, and there are options to pay for more packs of wizards; there are also plenty of levels to play through but this is very much bite sized fun or game for family afternoon on the couch together at a local level.

All in all, Tricky Towers' cartoony cutesy style and simplistic game mechanic make it eminently disposable but hollowly entertaining as well.

Win a double pass to see Ben-Hur

“BEN-HUR”

Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures present

“Ben-Hur”

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov

Written by Keith Clarke and John Ridley

Produced by Sean Daniel, Mark Burnett, Joni Levin, and Duncan Henderson

Executive Produced by Roma Downey, Keith Clarke, John Ridley, and Jason Brown

Cast: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman, and also starring Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer, and Sofia Black D’Elia

Synopsis: BEN-HUR is the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title, separated from his family and the woman he loves (Nazanin Boniadi), Judah is forced into slavery. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption. Based on Lew Wallace’s timeless novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Also starring Morgan Freeman and Rodrigo Santoro.

To enter simply email to this address: darrensworldofentertainment@gmail.com OR simply CLICK HERE darrensworldofentertainment@gmail.com

In the subject line put BEN-HUR!

Please include your name and address and good luck!

Competition closes August 25th