Games on Film

Harry and Rory journey back in time to the late 20th century and test the might of TV series Mortal Kombat: Conquest! This cheap and cheerful kung-fu fantasy show only lasted one season but served as a prequel of sorts to the feature films, following legendary Kombatant Kung Lao (Paolo Montalban) and his plucky companions Siro (Daniel Bernhardt) and Taja (Kristanna Loken) some time

To mark the 30th anniversary of its release, Harry and Rory slide in a CD-ROM and prepare for the ultimate experience in interactive terror, Brainscan! When Terminator 2's Edward Furlong tries out the titular horror game, he finds himself immersed in a first-person, stalk-and-slash scenario that feels all too real. But once he discovers his victim was killed IRL and not in FMV,

To mark the release of Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, Harry and Rory tool up to battle the zombie hordes of movie sequel DR: Endgame! Following the events of DR: Watchtower, investigative reporter Chase Carter (Jesse Metcalfe) heads back into the quarantine zone to stop General Lyons (Dennis Haysbert) and 'handsome, cruel scientist' Dr Rand (Billy Zane) from carrying out a pl

Harry and Rory land on the planet Pandora and brave its Borderlands for Eli Roth's big-screen adaptation of the looter shooter video game franchise! They examine the critical and commercial response to the long-delayed sci-fi action-adventure, before joining a ragtag group of intergalactic misfits caught up in a quest to open up a vault which, legend has it, may contain untold

Harry and Rory bring all the cats to the yard, as they while away an hour and a half in Neko Atsume House, the live-action adaptation of the popular kitty collecting smartphone game! We talk about the cats we've collected on our phones and in real life, before following struggling writer Sakumoto seeking a cure for his case of writer's block. Finding a rental property in a

Harry and Rory don mysterious headsets they received in the mail and find themselves catapulted into the immersive video game realm of Gamebox 1.0, from the writers of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies! Game tester Charlie (Sabrina The Teenage Witch's Nate Richert) is mourning the death of his girlfriend when a strange package arrives containing the titular console, offering the ul

Harry and Rory are joined by co-host of The File Room podcast Edwin Davies for Takashi Miike's adaptation of the first Yakuza / Like a Dragon video game! With a TV show on the horizon, we yak on about the Sega game franchise and its many instalments, remakes and spin-offs, before tackling the film itself. One hot and crazy night in Tokyo sees baseball bat brawls, a bank heist g

Harry and Rory grab their Digivices and DigiRecord another DigiEpisode of their DigiCast: it's Digimon: The Movie! Based on the monster-raising, monster-battling virtual pet phenomenon, this American anthology packages up three re-edited and re-dubbed Japanese short spin-offs from the animated TV series - including Mamoru Hosoda's directorial debuts - into one feature film.

Harry and Rory scroll through their Netflix lists and queue up a selection of six series adapted from or inspired by video games released in recent years. The fuzzy stop-motion charm of Pokémon Concierge! The fresh blood of Castlevania: Nocturne! The meta Ubisoft mash-up of Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix! The eye-popping Cyberpunk: Edgerunners! Takashi Miike takes on Onim

Podcasting's very own Brotherhood of Steel(e), Harry and Rory emerge from their vault and step blinking into the Wasteland for Amazon Prime Video's hit new series Fallout! We discuss the hundreds of hours of game time one us has put into Fallout 3 and why the franchise has endured, before journeying through the show's first season. An optimistic vault dweller, a solider