class of ‘10
what you’ve seen, heard and played is so last year. get ready for the new cool kids of the playground...
paul The Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz guys are back in a film about alien visitors.
napoleon: total war The Total War series focuses on one of history’s most ruthless military geniuses.
gorillaz Packed with music superstars, the new album Plastic Beach should be a ‘10 highlight.
mass effect 2 Bioware’s sci-fi epic goes bigger and badder as Commander Shepard has to save the galaxy again.
prince of persia The movie of the game, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, might buck the trend and actually be good.
max payne 3 Max is older, meaner and hiding in Rio. Then someone gets stupid and double-crosses him...
lcd soundsystem Daft Punk probably will play at their house, but LCD still has time for a new album in 2010.
nightmare on elm str. Freddy is back in this remake of the classic 80s horror. Should we be happy or scared?
heavy rain This might become the most revolutionary and cinematic game in recent history.
alice in wonderland Tim Burton makes the film we all want, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
god of war 3 Kratos finally gets to settle his score with the Gods Of Olympus in the PS3 biggest game ever.
predators Robert Rodriguez directs a film about humans being hunted on the Predators’ home planet.
the last airbender M Night Shyamalan directs the live-action adaptation to this popular kids program.
beyonce Jigga’s lady has hinted she might have another album out within a year. Busy, busy, busy!
dead rising 2 The greatest zombie game ever leaves the mall and heads for the streets of Vegas.
salt Angelina Jolie replaces Tom Cruise in this action spy thriller to become the female Bourne.
clash of the titans The classic Greek fantasy movie gets a welldeserved remake this year.
super mario galaxy 2 You can’t keep a good plumber down. Mario is due back for more planet-hopping antics.
toy story 3 Buzz and Woody return as Andy goes to college and the toys are dumped at a day-care center.
the last guardian From the makers of Shadow of the Colossus, the tale of a boy and his very big, er, dog-thing.
busta rhymes His new LP The Chemo will be out soon – let’s hope there are no more Arab Money songs...
robin hood Ridley Scott directs Russell Crowe in the story of this famous fictional bandit.
alan wake In this survival horror a endless dark envelopes a town as a novelist seeks for his missing wife.
daybreakers Another vampire movie, this time with Ethan Hawke.
darksiders Playing as War, you have to stop the other three Horsemen from starting the Apocalypse.
iron man 2008 was a great year for comic book movies, finding itself wedged between the uber-blockbuster The Dark Knight and the unbelievable Iron Man. Batman isn’t making his return yet, but Robert Downey Jr. aka. Tony Stark and his suit are back, this time facing off against Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. Helping him out is Don Cheadle stepping in as War Machine, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and, of course, the divine Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts.
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red dead redemption 2004’s Red Dead Revolver fell into every definition of a flawed classic: it was too short, too limited and completely unfufilling, but it was great fun, which is why everyone yearned for more. Six years on and the next Wild West free-roamer from Rockstar, they of Grand Theft Auto-fame, is set to shoot up the town. As a former outlaw turned lawman, John Marston sets out to bring order to the frontier and capture his former gang partner in a huge world full of dusty towns, crooked criminals and plenty of shoot-outs.
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