Discs and downloads

This self-titled debut album from Fleet Foxes is a beautiful and self-assured introduction to a Seattle band that have more in common with Crosby, Stills and Nash than Nirvana.Fleet Foxes is a rarity, a pop album that manages to be genuinely ...

Baroque seems like an interesting idea at first: it's an RPG for the Wii, a console starved of the roleplaying format. The game's central conceit is that having your character die and restart the game is vital to revealing the plot. On top of ...

Too Human’s mix of action and RPG elements should make it the best of both worlds, instead it doesn’t have quite enough of eitherTo be a great RPG, a game must have a deep, interactive story, full of interesting characters and an original ...

At first, Hellboy seems like it’s going to be a lot of fun. Ron Perlman reprises his role as the grumpy, red demon, the snippets of dialogue are fairly amusing, and the combat gives plenty of opportunity to beat-up little bad guys in humorous ...

Lars and The Real Girl is a softly spoken, melancholic indy comedy that takes a Carry-On film plot and turns it into a mature and poignant story.Ryan Gosling stars as Lars, a small-town lad so shy that his only solution to loneliness is to buy a ...

Adapted from a pair of hefty graphic novels, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's illustrated autobiography and tells the story of her youth in Iran and Austria, with the Iranian revolution providing a contrast to Marjane's feisty personality and ...

Ferrari Challenge isn’t the sort of driving game that helps the backmarkers catch up or steps in with a bit of sympathetic ABS when you overcook a corner. It’s the sort of technical racer that sticks you in a Ferrari and ruthlessly punishes you ...

Miranda Barber has a beautiful voice and a good ear for a catchy melody, but her debut album, Lips' Decision, doesn't fully capitalise on these talents.Wandering through jazz and blues history, Barber cherry picks the sounds she likes and adapts ...

The Script's self-titled debut album is very much what you'd expect from a band composed of two producers and some session musicians. It's technically polished but full of kitsch lyrics and trite sentiment. It's a deeply annoying record and a ...

Battlefield: Bad Company is a first person shooter tipped by many to become the game of the year. More cynical voices have suggested that it merely makes a good substitute for last year's best FPS, Call of Duty 4.To give credit where credit's ...