Ryan Lambie, Author at Film Stories

whynow Gaming: Welcome!

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 17, 2023 | Featured, Gaming, News

whynow Gaming: who is it? What is it? Where does it come from?...

The Banshees of Inisherin is now a retro-style browser game

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 16, 2023 | Gaming, News

Channel your inner Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin browser game, available to play now....

Symbiogenesis | A closer look at Square Enix’s curious NFT game

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 15, 2023 | Feature, Gaming

Symbiogenesis is billed as an NFT project where “10,000 collectible artworks meet real game utility.” But what does that actually mean?

Hyper Light Breaker | First trailer lands, Early Access set for autumn

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 15, 2023 | Gaming, News

Co-op rogue-lite Hyper Light Breaker has a new trailer, while its Early Access launch is now set for the latter part of 2023.

PS5 Pro reportedly in the works, no PS6 until 2028

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 14, 2023 | Gaming, News

The PS5 Pro could be with us as soon as 2024, a new report suggests, with the PS6 due to follow in 2028.

Castlevania: Konami producer teases "more" games in the series

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 14, 2023 | Gaming, News

Konami found the fan reaction to Dead Cells’ Return to Castlevania DLC “really motivating” says supervisor Tsutomi Taniguchi.

The Last of Us almost got a spin-off featuring Ellie's mum

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 14, 2023 | Gaming, News

The Last of Us came close to getting a spin-off video game about Ellie’s mum, Anna, creator Neil Druckmann has revealed.

Far Cry 5 at five: the closest we'll get to an A-Team simulator

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 14, 2023 | Feature, Featured, Gaming

Far Cry 5 is five this year, so Ryan pays a return visit to what is still a hugely entertaining open-world romp - and possibly the best unofficial...

The SNES was almost backwards compatible with the NES

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 14, 2023 | Feature, Gaming

First unveiled in November 1988, the SNES prototype was very different from the one that launched in 1990.

Alien Covenant which doesn't star Timothy Olyphant

Why Fede Alvarez’s Alien could give the series the clean break it needs

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 09, 2023 | Feature

As filming gets underway, how director and co-writer Fede Álvarez’s Alien movie could breathe new life into an ageing franchise....

Creed III review: the franchise that keeps on swinging

by Ryan Lambie | Mar 03, 2023 | Reviews

Heavyweight performances from Michael B Jordan and Jonathan Majors drive the latest film in the Creed series. Here's our review of Creed III......

Operation Thunderbolt and The Rock pictures

The mysterious photo that connects a 1980s videogame and Michael Bay’s The Rock

by Ryan Lambie | Feb 13, 2023 | Feature, Gaming

That second photo, supposedly of a young Ed Harris skulking through a battlefield – wasn’t that the cover of Operation Thunderbolt?

GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64, and its game-changing, film-accurate levels

by Ryan Lambie | Feb 02, 2023 | Feature

In 1997, British developer Rare went to obsessive lengths to re-create GoldenEye’s locations and sets for its pioneering first-person James Bond s...

Surmount preview | cosy, physics-based mountain climbing

by Ryan Lambie | Jan 20, 2023 | Feature, Gaming, Previews

How a whimsical encounter led to a fruitful creative partnership

Mega Drive: The indie devs still making games for Sega's 16-bit console

by Ryan Lambie | Jan 17, 2023 | Feature, Gaming

Years after its nineties heyday, Sega’s 16-bit console is still getting new games. We chat with some of the people behind its thriving indie dev scene

Exhausted Man preview | a physics-based puzzler for the modern worker

by Ryan Lambie | Jan 06, 2023 | Gaming, Previews

Solving puzzles while lying down? It’s all in a day’s work for Exhausted Man

Planet of Lana preview | inside 2023's prettiest sci-fi platformer

by Ryan Lambie | Jan 04, 2023 | Feature, Gaming, Previews

It’s a puzzle-platformer some five years in the making. We uncover the story behind the stunning-looking Planet of Lana

Exophobia preview | a genre fusion with retro soul

by Ryan Lambie | Jan 03, 2023 | Feature, Gaming, Previews

It has the pace of a retro FPS but the soul of a Metroidvania. José Castanheira tells us about his first commercial project

Lightyear Frontier preview | A farming sim that's on another planet

by Ryan Lambie | Dec 06, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Previews

Harvesting wheat in a giant robot? Swedish developer FRAME BREAK introduces its twist on the farming sim, Lightyear Frontier

Super Mario Land | Celebrating the weirdness of Mario’s Game Boy debut

by Ryan Lambie | Dec 02, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

Super Mario Land is still the plucky plumber's trippiest outing. Ryan takes a look back at Mario's Game Boy debut.

Mojito the Cat preview | Cutesy 3D platforming gets a cuboid upgrade

by Ryan Lambie | Nov 30, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Previews

Spain’s Guillem Tenza Albeldo went from architect to game designer – and has big plans for the future

Shovel Knight Dig review | Fun down under

by Ryan Lambie | Nov 29, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews

The latest Shovel Knight spin-off is an adventure we can dig

Lode Runner | Inspiring would-be designers since the 1980s

by Ryan Lambie | Nov 21, 2022 | Feature, Gaming

How the eighties platformer’s level editor gave players the chance to awaken their inner game designer

Vikings on Trampolines preview | Bouncing and brawling rolled into one

by Ryan Lambie | Nov 01, 2022 | Gaming, Previews

The creators of Owlboy return with the bounciest multiplayer brawler in the land

Gord preview | Survival strategy serves up horrors beyond your comprehension

by Ryan Lambie | Oct 17, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Previews

From the producer of The Witcher 3 comes a new strategy city-building hybrid. We get a guided tour of Gord

The Devil In Me: the Dark Pictures finale could be the scariest episode yet

by Ryan Lambie | Oct 14, 2022 | Gaming, Interviews, Previews

Director Tom Heaton talks exclusively about The Devil in Me, the final episode in The Dark Pictures Anthology’s first season

From Isolation to Observation: The No Code story

by Ryan Lambie | Oct 13, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews

Writer-director Jon McKellan tells the fascinating story of his path into the games industry, and how Alien: Isolation led to co-founding his own indie studio