Fable

This viscerally atmospheric directorial feature debut from the Franco-British artist and film-maker Charlotte Colbert arrives with a stamp of approval from a maestro of Italian horror (“Dario Argento presents”) and a glowing endorsement from Mexican Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón, who says it “sits in the tradition of great psychological horror films”. A chilling tale of buried secrets and dreamy vengeance with a subversive feminist edge, this latterday fable marries the spiralling, self-reflexive narrative of Shirley…

Raji: An Ancient Epic is an unusual thing — a console-quality game made in India, centred on Indian culture, and developed by an Indian studio taking the lead. Pune-based Nodding Heads Games makes their debut with Raji, a hack-and-slash platforming adventure inspired by Indian mythology, which follows the titular teenager as she battles an array of demons across a series of otherworldly environments with the help of Hindu goddesses and gods such as Durga and Vishnu.It's been in the works for quite a while — we spoke to…

The next Fable game, unofficially dubbed Fable 4 by fans online, has a new narrative lead in charge of its story, and they have a wealth of experience across a variety of games. Anna Megill joined Playground Games in February 2021 as a lead writer on the new Fable instalment, according to her Twitter and LinkedIn pages, but this week announced that she had been promoted into the role of narrative lead. Megill took to Twitter to announce the “exciting news” regarding the promotion and fans responded in kind with many…

Here is a rather self-conscious sci-fi satire, directed by Joseph Kosinski and adapted by Deadpool screenwriters Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese from George Saunders’s New Yorker short story Escape from Spiderhead, published in the collection Tenth of December – which someone in this film is actually shown reading, an unbearably smug piece of brand cross-promotion.Miles Teller plays Jeff, a convict who some time in the future has been given the chance to serve his term in the relatively cushy Spiderhead unit for experimental…

An unpublished short story by the late artist and film-maker Derek Jarman will be available to buy for the first time later this year.Jarman, who is best known for his films Sebastiane, Caravaggio and Blue, wrote Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, his only piece of narrative fiction, in 1971. More than 50 years later, and marking the year its author would have been 80, the story will finally become available in a special edition book to be published in November by House Sparrow Press, an imprint of…

If the rumours are anything to go by, then this year's Xbox (and Bethesda) Showcase is going to be a must-see event. In case you're out of the loop, the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase takes place at 6pm BST UK time on June 12. The event runs for around 90 minutes, and includes announcements and gameplay reveals for upcoming Xbox and PC games. You can watch the event live by clicking play on the video below.In terms of content, fans can expect news and gameplay for the likes of Starfield, Redout and Hellblade 2.Elsewhere,…

Fable fans have waited since 2010 for a true Albion adventure, and it looks like they’ll have to keep waiting. The next installment in the franchise, apply named Fable, is in production but doesn’t offer much else past a teaser trailer and some safe assumptions. Modern gamers have been patient, waiting for games like Starfield to finally hit the shelves. However, they can’t help the skepticism, especially not after the disaster that was Battlefield 2042. So, what do we know about the Fable 4 release date and…