Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales quickly establishes itself as more or less the paradigm of a genre. The alchemy of its RPG roots, addictive gameplay and wonderful story make it a far more fleshed-out package than many may have expected. While non-series fans may not find too much to write home about in terms of the tale it weaves, what remains in terms of gameplay is a fundamentally worthwhile package and one that one will provide many, many hours of entertainment.

What of the games outside of the numbered series in the Final Fantasy library? The spin-offs, the prequels and the crazy experiments in other genres? Final Fantasy as a franchise is full of one-shots that explored other corners of its multiple universes, games which expanded on and sharpened ideas which were felt in the core series in the years to come. Here’s a look at five such games which were crystallised perfection.

As we saw last week, spin-offs are the name of the game for the Star Wars universe right now. What time and place would you be interested in?

A solidly entertaining, surprisingly adult Harry Potter spin-off that improves as it progresses.

Besides for sequels, prequels, interquels and paraquels (which are actual words, I googled them), how else do you continue a story? With a spin-off.

Wow, what a weekend of craziness from Comic-Con! There’s been a flood of trailers and news since Saturday, and I’ve barely been able to keep up. So I thought I’d gather everything in one place, in case, like me, you were feeling a bit overwhelmed.

It’s been a whole six months (which is forever in TV land) since we told you that the Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (AoS) spin-off series, Marvel’s Most Wanted, was confirmed to be in development; and that Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi Morse aka Mockingbird) and Nick Blood (Lance Hunter aka sometimes I get confused between his real name and his comic book name) …

It looks like the “all-female reboot” is Hollywood’s next big thing. There’s the new Ghostbusters that’s well under way, and an Ocean’s Eleven remake being lead by Sandra Bullock, plus rumours of a female-centric Road House and 21 Jump Street spin-off. Personally, I’m not too hot on the idea of taking old movies and remaking them with ladies. Yes, more …