When the first promotional images for Batman: Arkham Asylum arrived in Summer 2008, it felt very much like business as usual. Throughout the 00s, licensed superhero games were common enough, many of them looked like they'd be winners early…

Malo Girod de l’Ain came to art in a roundabout way. A Parisian through and through, his aunt, Hélène Girod de l’Ain, was a famous artist and his parents’ home still hosts a number of delightful paintings. He enjoyed art as a hobby but…

Ubisoft has been accused both justly and unjustly of making the same game over and over again. Many of their longest running series like Assassin's Creed or Far Cry have spent the last decade or so struggling to reconcile realistic or…

The sheer magnitude of Pokémon cannot be understated. It’s one of the biggest cash cows in gaming and an easy system seller for every Nintendo handheld. Pokémania leaked into every medium, the game series, the TV show, movies, playing…

This year has been one of the best for games in recent memory. Everything else in the real world sucked which made getting lost in pixelated ones all the more appealing. Games this year plumbed the depths of our nightmares and the highs of…

Straight up front, I'm not strictly a Star Wars guy. While I admire the 1977 original as a visual marvel, a pantomime kaleidoscope of cinematic influences and probably the textbook realisation of "The Hero's Journey" (whereby a plucky young…

The video game industry is booming, but it repeatedly comes under scrutiny for what appears to be the persistent sexualisation of female characters. Many critics have assertively spoken out about how strong female video game characters are…

Ferdinand Waldo Demara, commonly known as “Fred”, was born in Lawrence Massachusetts in the December of 1921. The family were fairly well off when he was born, but his father lost a lot of money in the Great Depression and the family had to…

I awoke with a gentle-ish flailing of my limbs. I always find it best to start off in the waking world with some spastic limb flailing to get the body pumped up for all the rad stuff I put it through. Though this has led to several…

I'm not sure about you, but every morning, before I get dressed, I watch a movie in an effort to inspire my fashion for that day. And maybe that makes you think that I watch a lot of Dead Poets Society but actually, what I'm aiming for is…