The week has barely begun (even less so if you are in the US and reading this on Monday holiday!), and already there is a quite a lot of television to get through. With a bit of luck, you will have some time over the long weekend to catch up on the news – after ...
It has been almost a year and a half since DC Comics released the breathtaking finale of James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Buenos’ The beautiful house by the lake. The 12-issue limited series, which won an Eisner Award, follows a group of 11 people who are invited by their mutual friend Walter to an ...
The sympathizer is full of twists and turns—and why wouldn’t it be? It’s a series (based on a book of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen) that follows a Viet Cong double agent from the end of the Vietnam War to his life as a refugee in America while working to ensure the Viet ...
It’s been decades since games started implementing communication devices in games that resemble our real cell phones – and it’s often a successful mechanic for separating and merging menus and tracking progress. But lately I’ve noticed a strange trend: mobile games set entirely inside a simulated mobile device. In other words, mobile games that make ...
Not every filmmaker manages to get their debut film included in the Criterion Collection. But not every filmmaker has the necessary clout with their debut film Girl fight does. Decades after its release, Karyn Kusama’s debut film Girl fightis still relevant – it is no surprise that it launched her career as a director of ...
Anyone who asks me about video games today hears a key phrase in my vocabulary: “Oh, I watched my friend play it at Gamer Night.” “I have to install it in time for Gamer Night!” “I finally finished playing it last night at Gamer Night.” Since 2020, my Thursday night has been Gamer Night and ...
Glaskanone Unpluggeda publisher that produces board game adaptations of video games such as Frostpunk, Dying LightAnd Apex Legendshas ambitious plans for its next crowdfunding project. This time, the Polish studio is devoting itself to Klei Entertainment’s breakthrough hit from the 2010s with Don’t Starve: The Board Game. But what does a roguelike survival game actually ...
Summer is just around the corner—or maybe it’s already here, depending on the weather where you live. Either way, May is almost over, and that means movies won’t be available on streaming services at the end of the month. This month we have two very different thrillers – one about corporate misdeeds, one about an ...
A life full of science fiction, video games and comics led director Brad Peyton to the job of a lifetime: directing Jennifer Lopez in a damn mech-suit movie. Atlaswhich is now streaming on Netflix, was an easy yes: With two high-budget films by Dwayne Johnson in its luggage, Rampage And San AndreasPeyton was no stranger ...
When game director Hidetaka Miyazaki tried to explain his then new game Demon Souls for the masses, he chose another game as a reference point: the classic Dungeons & Dragons-inspired role-playing game sorcery. FromSoftware wanted to “bring back the fun and charm of a classic role-playing game using the latest technology available,” Miyazaki told Famitsu ...
