Is Insurgent’s Shatter Reality VR ride the future of film?
A virtual reality experience is touring America to put viewers in the middle of the action. Is it a gimmick, or the shape of things to come?
Republicans strike back: FCC member invokes Star Wars in net neutrality fight
Republican Ajit Pai quotes Emperor Palpatine, of Star Wars’s evil galactic empire, in attack on new broadband rules regulating the internet
Viral video chart: Simon’s Cat woos Generic Female, as Buscemi does Fifty Shades
Love is in the air for this week’s roundup, with the team behind Serial playing Cupid, and a Lego trailer for a certain unignorable sexy movie
‘A golden shining moment’: the true story behind Atari’s ET, the worst video game ever
Legend has it that millions of copies of Atari’s tie-in with the sci-fi blockbuster were secretly buried in New Mexico after the game was branded a stinker. A new documentary, Atari: Game Over, goes digging for the truth
Google Glass is on a strategic ‘reset’ and eight other things we learned
Google missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations, but it revealed people really love watching adverts, claimed credit for the success of The Interview and let people send money via Gmail
How virtual reality will change the cinematic experience
Will VR be seen as a major milestone in film history? Dan Page explores how experiences in the cinema aisles might change for the better
Virtual reality documentaries ‘take the middle man out of journalism’
Filmmaker Chris Milk is showing how the use of VR film in news coverage can be a powerful new storytelling vessel
Facebook’s Oculus VR sets up Story Studio to make virtual reality films
New division is staffed by Pixar veterans, with its first VR movie Lost debuting at the Sundance Film Festival
YouTube goes to the movies with Rooster Teeth, Our 2nd Life, Nash Grier and Cameron Dallas
Multi-channel network Fullscreen is producing a series of films starring or about popular YouTubers, through its new Fullscreen Film division
Ex Machina review – dazzling sci-fi thriller
Alex Garland’s directorial debut is full of confidence and wit, with Alicia Vikander blurring the lines between human and machine, writes Mark Kermode
Cybercrime and hacking are even bigger worries for small business owners
Hacks cost the American economy $100bn a year, and it’s not just the Sonys and Targets of the world. Some experts offer advice on how small businesses can fight the wave of cybercrime
Grool! Get in losers, an official Mean Girls mobile game is on the way
Upcoming ‘tiara defence’ title is being made for iOS devices by the aptly-named developer So Much Drama
Alex Garland on Ex Machina: ‘I feel more attached to this film than to anything before’
Alex ‘The Beach’ Garland has directed his first film, the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina – and feels, he tells Tim Lewis, that he’s found his true metier at last
Don’t know who to blame for the Sony hacks? Make it up
Satirical site Sony.Attributed.To pokes fun at the continued failure to conclusively identify the movie studio’s hackers