Resident Evil feels like an epilogue set dressed by the belongings of the very same people trying to kill us. This effect is better in Resident Evil 7, which features a homestead that feels very much inhabited, a place where almost every room – from the kitchen to the garage to the bedrooms – feels like a place interrupted in the process of merely living. A snapshot of the lives of your enemies before they were so, a home video on ‘Pause’.

Does Far Cry 5's avoidance of current news stories and the negative political environment make it a tamer tale of religous zeal running mad? Not at all. In fact, it's a much stronger story by directly avoiding those comparisons.

There’s an adage around social media platforms and their associated apps and service: If you’re not paying for it, then you’re the product. It’s entirely reductive, of course – but it’s the belief that if a website or service is pending its time and resources to give you content without asking for anything in return, then they are probably selling information about you to others to make money, to sell ads or worse – some other nefarious purpose.

As you probably know by now, The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia is going to be a playable character in Bandai Namco’s upcoming weapons-based fighter Soulcalibur 6. Does that sort of crossover marketing work?

When streamers like Ninja are pulling in the likes of Drake and breaking viewing records on Twitch, the impact of Chat is more significant than ever as the first touch point many non-gamers will have interacting with our community. We shouldn’t need to wait for a pro player to have their career significantly destroyed to realise that Twitch Chat is a largely under-addressed aspect of gaming culture that has very few positive contributions.

Artificial Intelligence is the big technological buzzword right now It’s being implemented into smartphones and other devices. AI will soon be everywhere. It’s meant to help people – serving them up all of human knowledge with a voice prompt. Could it end up being more nefarious?

So how would you fix the problem of gun violence in the USA, if you were in power and you didn’t happen to be an walking sack of pig testicles in orange tan spray that could barely string a coherent sentence together?

What entirely pointless arguments are you unable to let go of? We’re not about big things like freedom, religion, sexuality, politics or any of the other things society deems important. What entirely worthless hill are you willing to die on?

Thanks to Black Panther, everyone is talking about Afrofuturism. It's the latest hot trend, much like Steampunk and Cyberpunk before it. While some of us have been enjoying this genre and all it has to offer in the field of movies and books for years, you might just be dipping your toe in the water now, or looking for even more ways to enjoy it. So, here are some recommendations of things you might enjoy.

新年快樂! If that means nothing to you, that’s ok! What it does mean to those who can read traditional Chinese is Happy New Year! This year is the year of the dog. So that’s what we’ll be talking about. Look, they’re all good dogs, Brent – but which dogs are best?

There's a cinematic legacy attached to us that paints most South Africans as villains. Sure, there’s the utterly detestable kind of villain as seen in the racist cabal that harrassed Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 2. But there’s also another kind of local villain that I adore seeing on the big screen: The South African gun for hire.

I remember the very first time I encountered a game guide. My brother had been playing Mega Man, and it became clear that certain levels were easier with specific guns you'd unlock from beating one boss or another. Now? We'd just wiki the solution.