14 h. ago Cronos: The New Dawn review – classic survival horror tropes wrapped around a cool sci

Hot on the heels of its Silent Hill 2 remake last year, Bloober Team is back with an original survival horror game that puts time travel and horrific merging enemies at its core.

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4 d. ago Electric shocks, starvation, sick surgical experiments... and brutal castration: Horror stories from bloodied survivors of Putin's savage conveyor belt of torture

Earlier this year, a soldier known only as Vladyslav was taken prisoner along with seven others. Their Russian captors sliced off their genitals, gouged out their eyes and cut off their ears, noses and lips.

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4 d. ago Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Venice film festivalOscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual styleGuillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical strangeness but that’s enough about his film version of Pinocchio. Now Del Toro has written and directed a bombastic but watchable new version of Mary Shelley’s great novel and makes of it a stately melodrama, starring Oscar Isaac as the anatomist and passionate freethinker Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creature: no passé neck-bolts or big fringey forehead, of course, and if you compare him with portrayals by other actors – Boris Karloff, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro – he is, for all the picturesque prosthetic scars, the nearest this iconic figure has come to being a bit of a hottie.It’s an epic bromance between scientist and monster, both of whom speak wit...

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8 d. ago Gears of War Reloaded review: A revamped Xbox shooter classic shines on the PS5

2006 Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War is given a shiny new overhaul 19 years on by Microsoft and is released on the PS5 for around £35, which is a bargain for such a good shooter game

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9 d. ago Shinobi: Art of Vengeance review – Lizardcube does it again with stunning revival of a Sega classic

Following its already excellent work on Streets of Rage 4, Lizardcube injects another Sega series with new life in the utterly terrific Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.

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2 w. ago Mum survives horror shooting by ex after making repeated calls to police

Eileen Gibbons was shot in the stomach by her ex in a horror domestic attack at their home.

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3 w. ago American in UK tries fish and chips but is told they've 'made a mistake'

Sarah Renee, an American who moved to the UK, frequently shares her thoughts on British foods and various UK brands. In her most recent review, she chose to sample the classic dish of fish and chips.

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3 w. ago Brigadoon at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review: it's a neglected classic for a reason

There are some fine performances here, but it’s an effort to tough your way through the more saccharine moments

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3 w. ago ‘It’s not just football with blood’: Fear FA 98 is the Silent Hill meets Fifa 98 mashup we never knew we needed

A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads – here’s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier leagueSometimes it’s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary. But surely no one has thought of putting Silent Hill and Fifa 98 together before now.Billed as “the world’s first online survival horror football game,” Fear FA 98 (pronounced Fear-fa, like Fifa) has you pulling out knives, rusty scissors and syringes, summoning demons and using decapitated heads as the ball, in moves that make the likes of Diego “handball” Maradona and Luis “bitey” Suárez look like angelic stalwarts of the Fifa fair play guide. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Royal Enfield Classic 650: great looks, fun and vintage style

The makers have gone for a roadster/cruiser look, evoking the glory days of motorcycling

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4 w. ago Alien: Earth review: 'instant TV classic splices body horror with AI angst'

This new series on Disney is a prequel to the original Ridley Scott film that both echoes its brilliance and takes the Alien franchise into new territory to tackle contemporary tech angst

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4 w. ago Alien: Earth review: 'instant classic body horror epic about AI angst'

This new series on Disney is a prequel to the original Ridley Scott film that both echoes its brilliance and takes the Alien franchise into new territory to tackle contemporary tech angst

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