Blame it on my late-blooming video game obsession, but I did not play a single Elder Scrolls game until Skyrim came out. I was not much of an RPG girl, save the obsession with Mass Effect, but after spending a few weeks seeing all of my Xbox Live friends signed on and playing Skyrim, curiosity…
Science Fiction is described as a type of fiction that deals with “imaginary but often plausible” settings and situations that include but are not limited to space travel, teleportation, advanced technology and alien life (Wikipedia). The amount of science fiction films that are notable, entertaining and/or ground-breaking is quite large, but there are a few…
Many video game developers are guilty of what Epic Games has recently done with Gears of War franchise. They release blockbuster games, call them trilogies, and swear to fans that there will not be another game released after the third. Halo did it–after Halo 3 was released it was promised that Master Chief’s story would…
I was first introduced to the Halo franchise in high school by a friend of mine who was quite the gamer. I was instantly addicted, and spent most of my visits to his house sitting in front of his television killing Elites. Then Halo 3 came out, and my friend went away to college, and…
Warning, spoilers lie ahead. Ridley Scott is a liar. During the months (and even days) leading up to the release of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic Prometheus, the mercurial director repeatedly denied rumors that his newest cinematic endeavor was a prequel to his 1979 smash, Alien. His vehement dismissal of such whispers came even after…
