Browsing: Review

Wild Blue Skies is not shy about the video game experience it is trying to emulate. You are Bowie, an anthropomorphic dog in a spaceship making your way through a series of levels, most on rails, some taking place in small open areas, to defeat the evil Grimclaw, an anthropomorphic tiger with a giant cyborg…

Duskfade has been a long and anxious wait for this reviewer. Fantastic looking level design and great gameplay littered the trailer, and expectations rose and rose. Surely this love letter to some of the best platformers in history couldn’t live up to the hype (admittedly all caused by watching the release trailer on repeat after…

CyberPowerPC has long been a cornerstone of budget prebuilt gaming PCs, but its desktops aren’t often clad in original, distinct cases. The Gamer Xtreme MA-01 ups the CyberPowerPC’s aesthetic game significantly with an identifiably premium design, analog RGB controls, and attractive lighting accents. That’s all thanks to the new MA-01 case from CyberPowerPC.

I was excited to take a look at Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns because it genuinely brought me back to a bygone era of PC gaming. I’ve mentioned in the past that, growing up, I never really had access to many PC games, but one of the few I remember being enamoured by…

Issue 2 of ‘The Adequates’ had ended with the goths offering the protagonists – Grey, Chad, Randy, Julie, Pam, and Tweak – a lift while they’re being chased across the school by some mean bullies. By the end of the comic, the friends all gain some sort of supernatural abilities and Chad is practically flying…

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Following in the footsteps of Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion,writer/director Dylan Meyer’s The Wrong Girlsis a sublimely stupid buddy comedy. And thank the movie gods!

Schoolkid killer … Xander Pang as Light, in Death Note: The Musical. Photograph: Manuel HarlanSchoolkid killer … Xander Pang as Light, in Death Note: The Musical. Photograph: Manuel Harlan Review

Read our review of Death Note: The Musical, with music by Frank Wildhorn, now in performances at the Barbican through 12 September.

James Bacon is back with another academic look into the world of comics. Following up on his look at Irish Conflict In Comics in the 20th Century, reviewed here, he delves into history of comic book censorship in 1950s Ireland. Taking its title from a letter to the Irish Independent in 1952, A Sensual Cesspool of Iniquity, published by…