Compact in size but full of bite, Stephen King's The Mist told the story of a fog that swept through a sleepy town in Maine carrying demons unseen. The original 1980 novella might have only been 130 pages long, but it left its mark on popular culture, inspiring the seminal video game Half-Life and securing a big-screen adaptation in 2007 as well.
DiRT 4 is something of a feat: both a considered challenge and an appetizer to the world of rallying at large. It helps that the actual racing is spot on, too, with cars that handle brilliantly.
Prey burrows beneath your skin and never quite leaves your waking thoughts, but it's also buggy and imbalanced, marrying a first-rate setting to uneven gameplay. Comparisons with Bioshock are inevitable, but with its peaks and troughs, Prey reminds me more of Alien: Isolation.
It's been roughly a decade since Call of Duty breached the battlefronts of the historic World Wars, but with the upcoming release of Call of Duty: WWII, that's all about to change.
Ever since Ben Affleck squeezed his 6'2" frame into Batman's spandex, the series has hit choppy waters. Sure, there's been lots of fanfare and lots of talk, but not a tremendous amount of quality output. Outside of a fun but short stint in Suicide Squad, Affleck snarled and grimaced his way through 150 minutes of dour CGI in Batman V Superman, a film that might have sounded good scribbled on the back of a kid's comic book, but looked rather silly on the silver screen.
Hitting theatres next month is Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, the newest installment in the iconic sci-fi/horror series which the director launched all the way back in 1979. It's arriving a few years after the divisive Prometheus and looks to right that film's wrongs, promising an experience that will hew fairly close to Scott's seminal flick.
A greatest hits package of delights, The Ringed City gets just about everything right. If this is the end, as we believe it is, Dark Souls is going out on a high note.
Thrillers are a dime a dozen, but what about the ones you missed out on? From indie fare to spinechillers Down Under, we've got you covered with this list.
