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Maxime Chao

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Video Games

Stranger Than Heaven: SEGA pays tribute to a cult yakuza film with a wild trailer

Stranger Than Heaven pays tribute to legendary yakuza film Battles Without Honor and Humanity with a trailer made in collaboration with Toei, ahead of its release on 15 January 2027.

Movies

World War Z 2: Brad Pitt is back, and this time the film really does look like it's happening

Video Games

GTA 6: crowds swarm the PlayStation GTA 6 booth at the Tokyo Game Show

Video Games

Marvel's Wolverine: reviews are mixed, but sales are exploding (Twitter vs reality)

Movies

Fresh Water for Flowers: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new film looks an awful lot like Amélie

Tech

MelGeek releases its first keyboard in France, designed by Sheshounet (out of 20!)

Video Games

Is the games industry broken? The sector's big names are hunting for a way out of the crisis

Video Games

Onimusha Way of the Sword review: 20 years on, Capcom brings its cult series back from the dead — and nails it!

Video Games

Phantom Blade Zero: 3 million wishlists already, and the Chinese action game confirms its huge potential

Tech

ChatGPT: OpenAI is testing ads you can have a conversation with

Video Games

PHYSINT: the internet wanted Robert Pattinson, but Kojima has picked Bill Skarsgård for the lead

Video Games

GTA 6: Travis Scott, Keith Richards, Morgan Wallen — Rockstar unveils an absolutely wild soundtrack

Video Games

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4: Mads Mikkelsen turns up as the big bad, and the trailer proves it

Video Games

MindsEye: Leslie Benzies' studio reportedly on the verge of closing for good

Video Games

GTA 5: 13 years on, Steven Ogg (Trevor) finally plays the game he starred in

Video Games

Lollipop Chainsaw 2: Juliet is back with Final Fantasy XV's game director at the helm, and there's even gameplay!

Movies

Resident Evil: the internet buried it before release, but the reviews are good

Movies

Sacrifice: Romain Gavras brings together Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy and Vincent Cassel in a gloriously unhinged film

Video Games

Redfall: Harvey Smith looks back on the fiasco that was Microsoft's live-service game

Video Games

Zoopunk: the Chinese game that wowed gamescom shows off more gameplay

Pop Culture

I'm in China, so I'm taking you to see Shanghai's giant Gundam