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So, before I launch into this review, I need to provide a little context I've neve completed a Metal Gear game I've sampled them all, but have never been dragged into this universe The story telling felt dense for dense sake Going into Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the only ideas of story[...]

Horror's been a tricky proposition for games in recent years, especially in the AAA space, where the incentive to create games in this genre has dropped

****WARNING: This is not a review filled with spoilers, just enough detail I believe to give you a flavour of what I thought about the film – and why But to be spoiler free entirely, move on Or for even more spoilers, go here. I was invited to see it by a PR firm working[...]

[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/4748/0/OiCPodcastEpisode137.mp3] by Chris Thompson With Ant-Man, Adi Granov, Dave Kendall & Guillermo Ortego … After last week's chat with Charlie Adlard (which you can listen to here), this week I'm back with an early review of the new Ant-Man film – plus theTraditional vs Digital Art panel from last year's NICE convention in Bedfordwith Adi Granov, Dave Kendall[...]

"Are you even allowed to make movies like this?" That was the phrase I kept asking myself while watching Mad Max: Fury Road. The action is so thorough, so

Mortal Kombat is somewhat of a gaming institution. While maybe not quite as iconic as Super Mario or Tetris, the series has a public cache to people who

More on that later. This is a non-spoiler review, which basically means all the good bits have been excised and vaguely referred to There will be a Spoiler version along in a few minutes. But this will not be entirely spoiler free, just spoilers are reduced as much as possible to what I hope is your comfort level[...]

I stand over the lifeless body of a foul beast, it's grizzly mandibles lay motionless. The cobbled street runs red with putrid blood of the lusus naturae.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRLVxZHKPs "I've never has a cold... and a cold never bothered me anyway." That's an early line from Frozen Fever,

As a frequent reader of all types of comics, it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle of things. You’ll often encounter storylines that are just trotting

By Christopher Helton Red & Pleasant Land is a combination of a setting and adventures, ostensibly for early editions of the Dungeons & Dragons

It feels like way too much time has passed since the release of Secret Six #1, so I was so happy to get my hands on Secret Six #2 this week, from DC

By Christopher Helton Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games is sort of like the tabletop gaming equivalent of Lady Sovereign. You either love the game, or you

By Christopher Helton The new edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game has been rolling out over the last couple of months, first with the

I'll unpack this a bit throughout the review. The idea of the Cue System is to create a light weight game system that "gets out of the way" during play, and doesn't interfere with the story that the group is telling at the table Yes, except for talking about super-powers in Valiant Universe, there isn't a[...]

By Christopher Helton When your first complaint about a new comics is “man, that was too short” that bodes well for the issue, right? It does for The

This isn't your grandfather's Batman. Of course it's not Batman at all. This is Gotham. And thanks to a rather entertaining source, I've just seen the pilot episode.

By Christopher Helton Just before the fireworks of the American Independence Day you may have heard a shot fired off. That was the opening volley in the

For a while, it was published that Brendon wrote this review. He didn't. He hasn't seen the film. This is by Patrick Dane.

I was the first person to write about the show's existence, the first person to review the show, and found my description "It's not Heroes meets Skins, it's X-Men meets Trainspotting" used all over the place The penultimate episode brought together storylines and characters from the past two series and tied up all sorts of[...]

Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch star in David Gordon Green's hilariously heartbreaking piece on both loneliness and being alone.

The time-traveller just can't help trying to erase those awkward and painful moments, particularly sexual encounters, when she sees them cropping up since they appear to her in review much more traumatic than her memory has led her to believe In a way, she becomes a stranger in her own past, alarmed by her own[...]

I'm four episodes in at the time of writing, with seven to go. While the broad conventions of horror fiction are present, this is an arresting, platform-specific piece of work so far.

Will Romine writes; Hello Friends! It's your old pal Will Romine here with a review of Batman #20 I just had LASIK surgery a couple of hours ago and my vision is a little fuzzy, so I'm not sure if Batman is fighting Clayface, or a giant poop monster Either way, we're in for some fun! This issue[...]

Louis Falcetti writes; I've found that people really respond well when I begin talking about something I like with something I don't like. Did I say

Tom Cruise stars in a movie that's set after the end of the world. Is it worth visiting the radioactive ruins of your local cinema to see it? Michael Moran reports.

No one really likes to write a bad review They're really rather the product they'd experienced was good, so they could tell you all about it But there is something rathger delightful in the reading and the writing to really rip into something Like the newly released game Aliens: Colonial Marines Let's take a few[...]

Now, I will give you all a gift today: my review If you don't like it, don't worry, I kept the receipt If you do like it, give me a follow @notacomplainer Anywho, on with the show. I'm a believer in digging for subtext If it weren't for hidden meaning and symbolism, no narrative would be[...]

Matt Damon and John Krasinski want you to stop that fracking. Stop it. Now.