Great monster films are a rarity. On the surface they sound simple to make, throw in a monster to cause destruction and panic and then have a cast of likeable human characters to fight or flee from the beast. Bam! Movie over. That’s what Cloverfield and the 1998 Godzilla reboot did. Then why does nobody…
It was a moment that Firefly fans had been waiting 10 years for. After the heartbreak of the shows early cancellation, to the brief glimmer of hope brought on by the motion picture Serenity and the end of the franchise, Firefly fans have been through a lot. It’s not easy letting go of a universe…
As a huge Godzilla fan, it should come as no surprise that I’ve played the appropriately named Super Godzilla for the Super Nintendo. It should also come as no surprise that this game is terrible. Now I’m not exactly sure what was going through the head of the developers when this game is created. When…
Tampering with a beloved childhood memory for many moviegoers is a sure way to incite an internet flame war, and that is exactly what happened when a script reportedly from the new Michael Bay Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot surfaced. Bay already caused controversy with the decision to simply call the movie Ninja Turtles, rather…
In the sequel heavy video game industry, a breath of fresh air is always appreciated. Dishonored, a new first person action game, looks to breathe new life into the holiday season and first person shooter genre with its unique world setting and compelling gameplay choices. Set in a cyberpunk-esque city known as Dunwall, players take…
Zombie games have been quite popular for a while now with hit titles such as Left 4 Dead and Dead Island, an important feature of them being four player cooperative play. Now game developers are taking the zombie genre another step forward with War Z, an open world zombie massive multiplayer online game. Building off…
Remember the first time you watched the Jetson’s and dreamt of hovercrafts? We were all a little disappointed when the year 2000 came around and we didn’t all own the latest model of the hover car. Or what about the time you were watching Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and though, “Man, those speeder…
What if you combined the free roaming stealth and action of Assassin’s Creed with a mind altering story in the same vein as Inception? The result would be Remember Me, a new game from developer Dontnod and Capcom. Set in Neo Paris in the year 2084, players will take on the role of Nilin, a…
Halo is one of the most popular shooters in the world, and a great science fiction franchise to boot. It should come as no surprise then that weapons are the star of the show in the Halo universe. Pulling from standard human weaponry to exotic alien armaments, these are my favorite Halo weapons. Battle Rifle…
It’s one of the world’s greatest mysteries – does the Loch Ness Monster exist? If you ask George Edwards, a Nessie hunter of over twenty years, the answer is yes, and that he believes without a doubt that there is more than one of the creature. He even has a picture to (maybe) prove it….
X-Wing. Tie Fighter. The Millennium freakin Falcon. The space ships in the Star Wars universe are some of the most memorable spacecraft in all of science fiction, often copied, but rarely surpassed. Every ship is a character in its own right, with a distinct look and personality that demands for it to be remembered. Here…
When I first played Star Wars: The Old Republic in beta a month before the games release, I came away less than impressed. After quitting World of Warcraft years ago after suffering from severe boredom, I was hoping that Old Republic would be a breath of fresh air. What I got instead was a fairly…
