Workplace arguments can get the best of us all, but when your workplace is a movie set, which includes hundreds of cast and crew, a stressful and demanding filming schedule, and a studio breathing down your neck, those little tiffs around the water cooler can escalate into much more serious …
Read More »Bungie admits it had “no clue” what The Darkness was in Destiny
Did you ever read through the original Destiny (opens in new tab) lore and get the sense that Bungie’s major antagonist, the Darkness, was super vague and undefined? Well, there’s a reason for that; namely that Bungie’s major antagonist was super vague and undefined. But don’t take it from me …
Read More »Scott Snyder opens up about battle with depression during his early successes in comics
Scott Snyder has been a working comic book writer for a decade now, and in that short time span already accelerated to become one of DC’s top writers and the definitive modern Batman writer with his runs on Detective Comics, Batman, and All-Star Batman. But behind that success was a …
Read More »The winners and losers of E3 2017
***Updated with YOUR winners and losers (opens in new tab) from the show*** The E3 2017 press conferences (opens in new tab) have been and gone. Overall it feels like a solid yet safe year for games on all platforms – while there were a few surprises, no-one really shocked …
Read More »Game of Thrones season 7 has an avalanche of new images, plus a behind-the-scenes look at the show’s special effects
It’s not often we get a blizzard of Game of Thrones season 7 (opens in new tab)images alongside a nifty behind-the-scenes video showing off what makes the special effects tick (or, in most cases, explode with fiery abandon). Check out the pics below, including a very regal-looking Daenerys and Cersei …
Read More »A “core Pokemon RPG” is coming to Nintendo Switch – the dream of home console Pokemon is real
As part of its game showcase during E3 2017 (opens in new tab), Nintendo announced a project that fans have been clamoring about for decades: a core Pokemon game coming to a home console. Yup, Pokemon for Nintendo Switch is definitely A Thing That Is Happening. There are no details …
Read More »Nintendo E3 2017 Recap: Best of Nintendo at E3 2017
Short and sweet – that’s the way! Nintendo showcased a ton of new Nintendo Switch games (and shunned the 3DS) during its newest Nintendo Spotlight, streaming before the E3 2017 show floor opens to the public. New Metroid Prime and Pokemon games for Switch are confirmed to be in development, …
Read More »Star Wars: Battlefront 2 multiplayer hands-on: Still accessible, still spectacular, but this time there’s a dash of real, Battlefield depth to go with it
Star Wars Battlefront has changed, and so far, it seems, all for the better. Where the original, multiplayer-only game is the most consummately, lovingly released Star Wars theme park outside of a Disney land-holding (albeit one with a limited number of number of rides and attractions, and an ultimate depth …
Read More »The internet reacts to Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle – Mario shot and killed a thing WTF
Ubisoft’s E3 2017 press conference (opens in new tab) made it official: Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is happening and… wait a minute, it actually looks pretty good? We already knew it existed thanks to a bumper crop of leaks (opens in new tab), but the presentation made it actually …
Read More »Why a 25 year-old game is one of the most innovative, exciting reveals of E3 2017
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure, the games of 2017 are virtually unrecognisable from the earliest slices of software we marvelled at in the early 80s, yet there’s a common set of values that have always run through them. A ‘good’ game is one that …
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