Review by C.J. Bunce At one level you know exactly what to expect when you select a movie based on a video game. Any film worth its production costs needs to bring general audiences into the world, the director and writers need to then build that world, establish heroes, fight battles, provide over-the-top action and […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Usually a franchise tie-in novel or sequel will be able to serve as a standalone story to create a springboard into the story’s universe for new readers. That’s not the case for readers of the new Gears of War prequel to the Gears 5 video game, Gears of War: Ascendance. Author […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Video game dabblers and players turn into game company entrepreneurs in Netflix’s latest retro fix, High Score, a documentary in the vein of shows like VH1’s Behind the Music and The Toys That Made Us. Pioneer designers and creators like Space Invaders creator Tomohiro Nishikado, Nintendo’s Hirokazu Tanaka, and Atari’s Nolan […]
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Preview–Next chapter of Dynamite series “Obey Me” continues supernatural story of a girl and her dog
Review by C.J. Bunce I reviewed the first issue of Dynamite Comics new series Obey Me last month. It was actually labeled Issue #0, although I’m not sure why. Tomorrow Dynamite Comics releases Issue #1, a continuation of the series. I loved the first, zero issue. Check out my review here if you missed […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Having escaped an Assassins brotherhood training camp in his youth where his mother is killed by the villainous Maxime Torm, 17 years later–in 2017–readers meet the escapee in the new graphic novel Assassin’s Creed: Bloodstone. His name is Tomo, now a young man working in a video arcade in Tokyo. With […]
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Guest review by Alec Jessen The newest addition to Nintendo’s Kirby game franchise, Kirby: Star Allies, is now available for Nintendo Switch (known in Japan as Kirby of the Stars: Star Allies). The release of the new game is centered around an interesting new mechanic that has not been seen before with previous games in […]
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Review by Alec Jessen Many of us know and love Star Wars, especially the video games. The Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Battlefront 2 video games from back in the earlier 2000s were some of the best Star Wars games available, and here in 2016, we’re taking a look at a recent update of that […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce As part of the release of the new single-player action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider, two new companion books are coming your way, Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Path of the Apocalypse and Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Official Art Book. The game, available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce You might think that a movie from 22 years ago isn’t prime material for a reboot, especially when that movie is Joe Johnston’s barely memorable Jumanji. It starred Robin Williams, a bunch of kids and a nice pantheon of supporting actresses (including Patricia Clarkson (The Maze Runner series, The Station Agent), […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce For a new generation, the new adventure-thriller Tomb Raider may be an entry point into the adventure genre. If you like the concepts in Tomb Raider, you’re likely to love adventure classics like that other “raider,” Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Mummy, and Disney’s […]
