Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero #297
It’s the end of an era, as IDW’s amazing GI Joe run comes to a close. Despite having legendary GI Joe writer Larry Hama scripting this final story arc, it […]
Video Game Review: Taito Milestones (Switch)
There aren’t many video games companies who have left such an indelible mark on the industry at the level that Taito have; Space Invaders alone is a title that, to […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: Hearts & Minds (2010)
I grew out of comics in the 90s; or at least, superhero comics for the most part. It was a bit of a weird time for mainstream comics, with the […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #2
The Genie-powered COBRA continue to cause havoc across the globe, with GI Joe struggling to control the manifestation of Cobra Commander’s wishes. Yet the Commander hasn’t learned that he has […]
Comic Book Review: Classic GI Joe Vol. 1
Having had the GI Joe license since 2008 – and creating their own, successful continuity with the characters – IDW began reprinting the 80s Marvel issues that were largely written […]
Review: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
The last time a game based on Aliens was released for computers and consoles, we got the absolutely disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines from Gearbox and Sega. A buggy, derivative, just […]
Book Review: Alien: Into Charybdis (2021)
Author Alex White’s previous Alien novel, Alien: The Cold Forge, was a remarkable book – though it took place in a Weyland-Yutani lab in which experiments to weaponise Xenomorphs were […]
First Impressions: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Regular – or even passing – readers of my blog will know that I’m an absolutely huge fan of the Aliens universe. When Aliens: Fireteam Elite was announced, I read […]
Book Review: Aliens: Phalanx (2020)
I’ve read a lot of xenomorph-related books this year, having got myself all excited about video game Aliens: Fireteam Elite, which is finally out tomorrow. In getting myself all worked […]
Comic Book Review: Aliens: Aftermath #1
Set 35 years after Aliens (which is quite a neat touch, given that this issue celebrates the movie’s 35th anniversary), Aliens: Aftermath sees a group of humans making their way […]
First Impressions: Sniper Elite VR
Rebellion’s Sniper Elite series of third-person shooters has always felt like a bit of a scrappy underdog – though never blessed with the budget of blockbuster AAA games, they’ve always […]
Book Review: Aliens: Infiltrator (2021)
With Aliens: Infiltrator being a prequel to Aliens: Fireteam – a co-op multiplayer video game due this Summer – there was a genuine concern that it’d be a lazy cash-in, […]
Comic Book Review: Project: New Wave – Vol 1, #1
Government-run super teams aren’t a new concept, but the idea behind Project New Wave from indie publisher Truthful Comics – is an intriguing one: what if the superpowered teams employed […]
First Impressions: Tom Clancy’s The Division
Despite the author himself passing away in 2013, Tom Clancy’s name continues to be applied to a number of different video game series, many of which – including titles such […]
Kickstarter: Sniper Elite – The Board Game
I was late to the party with Rebellion’s hugely popular, long-running Sniper Elite series. The first one I played was Sniper Elite 3; I was immediately blown away by the open nature of each stage and the huge variety on offer with which to cause gory, sometimes painfully detailed, chaos. The Sniper Elite games see players cast as – spoiler […]
Review: Titanfall 2 (Campaign)
I never got around to playing the original Titanfall, which released on Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC in 2014. Titanfall was a big deal when it was announced; the first game from Respawn Entertainment, headed up by Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella – who’d left Activision in a storm of controversy involving unpaid bonuses, alleged insubordination […]
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