Mount and Blade Warband is a game about travelling through a fictional medieval world, called Caldera, and assembling a band of warriors to whatever ends you desire. Do you want to be a caravan that buys goods in one town and sells them for a higher price in the next? You can do that. Do... Continue Reading →
During the 1960's there seemed to be a declining interest in new Godzilla films, an event which is today contributed to the explosion of television and people's fascination with serials. As a result, Toho would bring in a new director, Jun Fukunda, who would handle Godzilla in a less dramatic way than Ishiro Honda had.... Continue Reading →
After trying to figure out how to best describe Fallout 2 to you, the one word that I kept returning to was 'bizarre'. The reason being that it's so strange that a sequel to very popular game can paradoxically be so similar to it, while also being a great departure from what made the original... Continue Reading →
Contrary to what what films like Saw or Insidious would have you believe, the scariest things in the world are not extreme gore or the super natural ghosts haunting our children. On the contrary, real horror is found in much more grounded scenarios where the otherwise ordinary becomes unexpectedly unexplainable. Such is the case in... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone, this is just a note from Alex the author. Firstly, happy new year! I hope it's a good one. Though I'm not one for making resolutions myself, I hope those of you who have made any are able to stick with them and I hope, for all our sakes, that 2021 is much... Continue Reading →
After the success of Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, a sequel was commissioned to be released the following year by Toho, once again directed by Ishiro Honda. The resulting film was the peculiar Invasion of Astro-Monster, which is peculiar because it is more a typical alien invasion movie than Godzilla movie, and because it is a... Continue Reading →
Whenever a new open world game comes out, or even one that's simply story driven, I firmly believe that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be the game everyone draws comparisons to, simply because of how high it set the bar for both open world exploration, and narrative writing. In Red Dead 2, you play as... Continue Reading →
In 1978, Philip Kaufman's remake to the 1954 classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers - a film that had previously used it's premise to play on the fear of the Red Menace during the Cold War - was released in cinemas. Unlike the original, however, Kaufman's interpretation of the source material did not play on... Continue Reading →
In 1997, a now dead company called Interplay developed and released the game that spawned a franchise which would go on to cement itself as one of the kings of the RPG genre: Fallout. Initially brain-stormed as a time-travel story about ninja cults, electricity-conducting underpants and human zoo's run by dinosaurs, Fallout was eventually shaped... Continue Reading →
