Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets arrives with interstellar expectations. Enter Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne), space agents who police the universe by day and flirt awkwardly by night. Besson hurtles his camera through a series of awe-inspiring environments, and populates them with increasingly bizarre alien species. THE VERDICT: VFX Oscar glory seems inevitable, but a formulaic plot and underwhelming leads are just two of Valerian’s thousand probl

It’s wonderfully fitting, then, that the ‘bad guys’ completely steal the episode while the ‘good guys’ are nobly posturing. Queen’s Justice, then, is the story of the righting of wrongs. It’s also a significant victory for the underdogs – something we’ve previously cheered and applauded in Game of Thrones. As pure TV entertainment, Queen’s Justice is middling at best – lots of talking, muted action, and very few genuine shocks. Queen’s Justice isn’t the best episode of Game of Thrones to date, a

Excited for Rick & Morty to… I guess re-premiere, given how the first episode of season 3 aired way back on April Fool’s Day? It will be something that weirds me out forever,” Taylor said, describing the foreseen difficulties of communicating and coordinating a creative work across multiple countries and timezones. I think that’s a testament to Rick & Morty as a comedy.” For Adult Swim, it’s a way to remind people that the show is coming back to air this weekend. Rick & Morty season 3 returns to

You don’t need to buy Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare to play Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Remastered anymore. It’s available on its own for $39.99 / £34.99 on Xbox One and PC, arriving a month after the standalone version of Modern Warfare Remastered first became available on PS4. Stay frosty.Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® Remastered is available now on-disc and digital download for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. pic.twitter.com/vaTGKI2PX6July 27, 2017The double XP Beachcomber Prop Hunt event makes it

Don’t feel bad if you’re just now hearing about Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. For the past half a year, it’s been strictly the realm of PC gamers, allowing them to engage in a mish-mash of stealth-oriented gameplay and real-time strategy. But on August 1, Xbox One and PS4 owners will also get the chance to send forth a ninja, geisha assassin, samurai, sniper, and more on a quest to quell rebellion in feudal Japan. Our sister site PC Gamer called Shadow Tactics “one of the greatest stealt

But for the actors behind Game of Thrones’ soon-to-be-deceased characters there’s a much more clearly defined moment of mortality: a phone call with not just one but both of the show’s co-creators. Beware, Game of Thrones season 7, episode 2 spoilers follow. “I was in New York filming Iron Fist and I got a call from [showrunners David Benioff and D.B. As soon as you hear that more than one of them is on the call you know what that means. For more Westerosi events, read our Game of Thrones season

Daredevil fans, have you, like me, been wondering just why the heck Matt Murdock is wearing Jessica Jones’ scarf in trailers for The Defenders? Speaking to Cinema Blend, actor Charlie Cox said Murdock has retired from the vigilante lifestyle when The Defenders begins. “Really, Matt Murdock is the lie with DD. He’s living a lie as Matt Murdock. In the meantime, let’s rewatch The Defenders’ SDCC 2017 trailer and, if you’re feeling really anxious, read our preview of The Defenders’ first episode.

The Destiny 2 PC beta finally has a start date. Bungie revealed in its latest weekly update when players can try out the Guardian business outside of consoles for the first time, as well as recommended specs for the beta client. Here are the details:Destiny 2 PC beta scheduleEarly Access (for pre-orders): August 28August 28 Open Beta: August 29August 29 Beta ends: August 31Destiny 2 PC beta recommended specsCPUIntel – Core i5-2400AMD – Ryzen R5 1600XGPUNvidia – GeForce GTX 970AMD – Radeon R9 390

There’s always an awkward conversation to be had when a much-loved book is turned into a movie or TV show. Plot points have to be cut, characters need to be changed, and some things might even have to be added for a more modern audience. Whether or not fans of the books accept those changes, is a testament to the showrunners, and that’s very much the case with American Gods – old time fans and newcomers a like enjoyed the fantastical series. Watch the above Blu-ray extra exclusively on GR+ befor

You’ll be playing a whole different version of Doom, with different demands, different tactical options, and whole new kinds of fun. Yet I’ve put more time into Doom’s multiplayer than I have a lot of whole games over the last couple of years. Doom Multiplayer is fun. Doom’s campaign takes about 15 hours to finish, and I’ve spent at least that long working on one SnapMap level. The sheer process of learning and understanding, reworking and breaking Doom’s SnapMap tool rules is a game all of its

I’ve played every mainline entry in the Pro Skater series since the 1999 original, and even suffered through several of the un-numbered spin-offs. Tony Hawk’s Underground introduced Jackass-style buffoonery to the mix; American Wasteland promised a single open-world (connected with featureless loading tunnels); and Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground set a bold new standard for bland competence in video games. But Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 wasn’t just ropey – it was critically reviled, panned at launch fo

Sony has announced a UK price increase for PlayStation Plus, mirroring a recent US rise. It’s apparently to to “reflect various market conditions.” Depending on how you pay, the increases are as follows:- Annually, the price will change from £39.99 to £49.99 per annum. In a statment to GR Sony said, “we are changing the pricing to reflect various market conditions while enabling us to continue providing exceptional value to our members.” However, check out our best PS Plus deals and you can pick

The Emoji Movie was hardly going to be 2001: A Space Odyssey but the ultimate movie to reflect the world we live in has turned out to be soul-crushingly bad. To add to the pain and despair of the experience, The Emoji Movie is preceded by a short, ‘Puppy,’ featuring the characters from the Hotel Transylvania animated movies. The Emoji Movie sucks? !July 27, 2017A part of me secretly hoped that The Emoji Movie was a deeply emotional analysis of our over-reliance on modern culture.Probably not.Jul

This week he’s in the Tower, near the Crucible vendors. Well in terms of armour, Titans win this week, but only as long as they use shotguns regularly. The Warlocks’ Starfire Protocol is better, equipping a second Fusion Grenade on every charge, but it’s still pretty specific in its purpose, and far from the most exciting Warlock Exotic out there. That’s a Fusion Rifle that was raised by grenade launchers, and now refuses to accept any other way of life. As ever, Xur will be around until 10am UK

Just a few short weeks after his debut on the Overwatch public test realm (and in a slickly-animated trailer), Doomfist has arrived in full force. The villain is now live across all versions of Overwatch, and is available in all modes. The patch that unlocks Doomfist also brings with it several other changes to Overwatch that players should appreciate. Beyond that, the recent patch contains your usual assortment of bug fixes and balance changes. You can read the full Overwatch patch notes via Bl

Publisher Bethesda revealed today that the DLC expansions for its upcoming alternate-history shooter will let players fight to liberate the good ol’ USA as a trio of new characters. Titled Wolfenstein 2: The Freedom Chronicles, the season pass will give players access to four packs (though you can also get the first one just by pre-ordering Wolfenstein 2). The Freedom Chronicles: Episode Zero introduces you to to the three new protagonists with some brisk Nazi shooting. You can get this pack eit

Tim Curry’s performance in the original TV mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s It is one of the most iconic of his career. So it’s no wonder that horror fans were curious how Bill Skarsgard would put his own twist on Pennywise for 2017. A new trailer gives us an idea, as we hear this new version of Pennywise speak for the first time. It’s a softer, gentler voice than Curry used for his performance – but granted, it’s only three words while Pennywise tries to convince Georgie he’s not a thre

The most deadly adversary of the Destiny 2 beta will be less killer in the final version of the game. Bungie’s nerfing the surprisingly deadly rods that spin above the shield generator turbines in Homecoming – AKA the very first mission you play in Destiny 2. “I was surprised by the turbine, because there’s only one turbine spinning in the shipping game, I was surprised to see two of ’em,” Smith said, laughing. There’s one spinning turbine instead of two […] Y’know what, I died to it a couple

Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago was… well, it could’ve gone a whole lot better and not a whole lot worse. Hanke noted that “from late Saturday to Sunday, Trainers in downtown Chicago participated in more than 69,000 raid Battles and captured more than 7.7 million Pokemon, including more than 440,000 Legendary Pokemon.” Worldwide the numbers climb even higher, to 4.6 million Raid battles, 500 million Pokemon caught, and 1.9 million Legendaries. Hanke wrote that Niantic will use what it’s learned from

While pre-order bonuses are typically the realm of vanity items or minor boosts, putting some money down early on Destiny 2 will net you an Exotic trace rifle called Coldheart. What’s a trace rifle, you ask? As opposed to most of Destiny 2’s guns which go “bang bang,” the trace rifle is more of a “bwaaaaahm”. In a video featurette with IGN, Bungie said that, as of right now, it’s the only trace rifle in the game. Don’t feel bad if not – GamesRadar’s own Lucas Sullivan was so excited he purposefu