Heavy Rain has been widely praised for its near-faultless character animation and acting, but what of the actors behind the avatars? Well, we had the pleasure of being introduced to the actor who plays Ethan Mars, a single father looking for his missing son in the game. This is Pascal Langdale, an English actor who's background in largely in theatre, but who you may also recognise from his appearances in shows like Extras, Casualty and The Bill. As you can tell from the images above, he not only lent his ...

Words to describe God Of War III. Bloody. Angry. Hilarious. It's true, the latest instalment of Sony Santa Monica's epic is a brilliant, and as over-the-top, as we had hoped for. GamesCom's demo features around 15 minutes of gameplay that sees Kratos on familiar ground – slicing and dicing his way through hordes of undead enemies in a quest to avenge the death of ...

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The PSP version of Media Molecule's ground-breaking user creation game is a tale of two halves: one good, the other no so. First of all, fans will be pleased to hear that the vast majority of the PS3's games functionality and creation tool set has been maintained in the PSP version, but with a fraction of the processing power. There have been compromises to achieve this, however. Instead of three planes of play, the game now ...

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Editor In Chief Nick Jones and I (News Editor Jon Gordon in case you weren't sure) will be leaving for Cologne tomorrow for Gamescom and you can keep up with our coverage via a number of different locations.We'll have every angle covered and we've got hands on time with some of the biggest games coming out in 2009 and 2010. Find out more after the jump.