Every so often, a game comes around that you don’t want to let go of. When I finished Life is Strange: True Colors, I didn’t feel ready to leave Haven Springs and the characters I’d fallen in love with behind. One of the biggest highlights of my time in True …
Read More »Todd McFarlane on Gunslinger Spawn out-dueling Spider-Gwen and the health of comic shop sales
Todd McFarlane’s Gunslinger Spawn #1 (opens in new tab) has generated retail pre-orders of 350,000 copies to comic book stores, according to Todd McFarlane Productions (TMP). On sale October 20, the series debut features interior art by Brett Booth, Philip Tan, and Kevin Keane with three stories of the Gunslinger …
Read More »How a YA teen Joker pitch turned into a Hannibal-esque take on the Harley Quinn / Joker dynamic
We often see the Joker through the eyes of superheroes, but what does he look like from the perspective of a real-life crime expert, like an FBI profiler? Less superhero, more Hannibal? That recently happened in a DC mature-readers series called Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (opens in new tab). And it …
Read More »How Bungie made Savathun Destiny 2s best villain yet and turned seasons into gripping TV shows
It feels like Destiny 2 players randomly looked up from their Vaults this year and went, “Dang, the story’s gotten good, hasn’t it?” I certainly did. After struggling to meaningfully connect its expansions and seasons for several years, Destiny 2 has quietly (and sometimes loudly) become the best live service …
Read More »Meet the Dark Souls modder bringing Bloodborne’s Chalice Dungeons to Lordran’s Depths
My first trek into The Depths was not a successful one. After ploughing through the gang of torch-waving Hollows who congregate at the foot of the stairs in one of Dark Souls’ least popular areas, I was proper ragdolled by a cleaver-wielding Butcher. On my second attempt, I managed to …
Read More »David Chase talks Sopranos, Many Saints of Newark, and the TV show that gives him hope for the future
David Chase has been telling stories for a few decades now. The writer, director, and producer won his first Emmy in 1978 for The Rockford Files, a detective drama that he wrote 16 episodes for. Even before then, just after leaving film school and heading to Hollywood, Chase had an …
Read More »Why Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the perfect game for a museum exhibition
Animal Crossing: New Horizons arrived at exactly the right time. It released during a global pandemic that disrupted all of our lives, which resulted in so many of us seeking solace on its virtual sandy shores. Not only was it an obvious distraction from the chaos happening all around the …
Read More »Dead Cells is getting an easy mode, and Im redownloading it after rage quitting years ago
Yes, Dead Cells is getting an ‘easy mode’. And no, developer Evil Empire doesn’t care if some corners of the internet have the baby wah-wahs because of it. Conversations surrounding the merits of challenge have been a laborious and long-standing component of the discourse around video games – reignited by …
Read More »The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a D&D world where a bad mood could kill you
Most Dungeons & Dragons sessions go off the rails in one way or another, and The Wild Beyond the Witchlight embraces that weirdness. Tipping players headfirst into a parallel dimension with shades of Alice in Wonderland, ‘odd’ is the order of the day. I had a chance to pepper The …
Read More »Fantastic Four: The oral history of the iconic run by Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo
From 2002 to 2005, writer Mark Waid and the late artist Mike Wieringo, alongside inker Karl Kesel and an editorial team led by Tom Brevoort, embarked on a 35-issue run as the creative force behind the Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four (opens in new tab) title. Waid’s involvement was somewhat ironic, …
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