Posts

Strider 2014
Gaming
Jordan Pollock

Strider Review

It has been about fourteen years since the last time Strider Hiryu appeared in a proper Strider game. But 2014 is a year of new beginnings, and so the long-awaited and much-anticipated new title in the Strider series has revealed itself. The new game, simply titled Strider, is a platforming action-adventure game in the vein

Read More »
Thief 4 E3 Preview Banner
Gaming
James Huneycutt

Review: Thief

Thief is the latest installment in a franchise that is near and dear to my heart – in fact, I can think of one title only that predates the first installment in the franchise in my experience, and that was some nonsense pack-in with the first computer my family ever purchased – Thief was the first real

Read More »

Comic Issues #160 – Guardians of the Everything Else

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Like we said last week, everybody’s busy. But somehow we cram in a few things when we’re not at our jobs. Sometimes it’s freelance work, sometimes it’s getting a new place, sometimes it’s watching COMPLETELY AWESOME TRAILERS. And sometimes it’s dealing with

Read More »

[Trailer] TITANFALL goes Gold, Drops a Stunning Launch Trailer

Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall is unquestionably the most anticipated title of this year and thankfully it’s just days away. Respawn has announced that the title has gone gold, and begun shipping to stores, and earlier today released an action-packed launch trailer.

Read More »
The Night Circus banner
Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Night Circus

The Night Circus is the debut book by Erin Morgenstern; at this point it’s also the only book by Erin Morgenstern. She has some poetry and several smaller essays on her website, but for now this is her only novel. And while I’d like to see another book by this author, at this point I can’t

Read More »

Batman: Arkham Night Preview Trailer

Hold on to your utility-belts, Bat-faithful, because today brings us some bat-tastic news regarding Rocksteady‘s next entry into the brilliant Arkham franchise! Appearing today on Warner Brothers’ Games UK channel, the new trailer gives us a glimpse of Bruce’s new bat-suit, a smattering of baddies, including fan favorites Harley Quinn and Two-Face, but most importantly a brand-new,

Read More »

Movie Issues: Die Hard with a Vengeance

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week we watched Die Hard with a Vengeance! Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson try to stop crazy Jeremy Irons from blowing up New York and stealing billions in gold. Seems like a normal day in the complicated life that is

Read More »
BloodGuardHeaderNewst
Books
llyzabeth

Review: The Blood Guard

The Blood Guard by Carter Roy wasn’t anything like what I’d expected. The main character Ronan may be a teenager who’s stumbled across a world of swords and sorcery and automatic weapons, but this is not one of those stories where he turns out to be some kind of “chosen one” or demigod. Not even

Read More »
ci 159Header
Comic Issues
llyzabeth

Comic Issues #159 – Working hard and hardly working

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Everybody’s working so hard lately, but there’s two kinds of working. First there’s the building, designing, digging, power-tools kind of working. We’re doing a lot of that. But there’s also catching up on all the awesome geeky stuff out there. All those

Read More »