Author: James

Game nights used to mean a couch, a few friends, and whatever console someone dragged out of a closet. Now, that same energy plays out in front of thousands of strangers at once, and somehow it works better than the original version ever did. Live streaming took something private and turned it into a shared…

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In a grim week for the games industry where Microsoft laid off 1,600 people (with 1,600 further job cuts hanging over the heads of Xbox employees) one decision stood out as especially egregious. Id Software, developer of Doom and Quake, was forced to lay off 136 people – more than half of its workforce.

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As far as Marvel comic book history is concerned, and despite how popular he’s been as a character for the last three decades, Daredevil has never managed to break through and into the same upper-echelon stratosphere that the Marvel Comics’ holy trinity—Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Hulk—have consistently resided in.

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