Browsing: Review

At the crossroads between cyberpunk and fantasy exists Shadowrun. Originally a tabletop RPG from 1989 (currently on its sixth edition, as of 2019), it’s now a franchise sporting multiple campaigns, novels, and video games. The first of which was Shadowrun for the SNES in 1993, a moderately well-received isometric RPG/adventure game. However, it would be…

Best known for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City, Frank Miller is a multi-award-winning American comic book writer whose talent transcends that medium. He’s also a proficient screenwriter, film director and producer.

It can be fascinating to look back at the origins of a franchise, whether it be on its eighth mainline entry or only its second. The dawn of the 3D fighting game in the early to mid-90s in itself is an interesting period, and Namco played a big part in its take-off. With Sega’s Virtua…

Thudakkam Movie Review: Vismaya Mohanlal and Aashish Joe Antony impress in a formulaic Thudakkam Vismaya Mohanlal and Aashish Joe Antony in Thudakkam 

Appleguy & Beefwood by Cedar Van Tassel is a comic stripcompilation that shows a classic pair-up comedy with world-building that is altogether new. It is set on the Great Plains in the distant future when all humans have disappeared and a new race of plantlike people have taken over

A poster from Vadhandhi: The Mystery of Mani Review Published on: 08 Aug 2026, 8:07 am

One piece of information caught me off guard this week: apparently, an 8 bit shoot ’em up was developed and released for the NES, including in physical form, just a couple of years ago. Changeable Guardian Estique is a traditional side scrolling shoot ’em up, akin to Gradius, boasting technically impressive visuals and performance for…

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is AMD’s most powerful 3D V-Cache processor to date, equipped with more 3D V-Cache chips than any desktop CPU before it for an additional 128MB of performance-boosting cache. The 9950X3D2 also likely takes this technology to its current limits (more on that later). You’ll have to pay a…

Ricky Gervais has spent the better part of the last two decades mastering the awkward sitcom, mining profound grief for laughs, and delivering buzzy and sometimes controversial stand-up specials. Now, he’s taking his signature brand of cynical, observational humor into the realm of adult animation with Netflix’s Alley Cats. Swapping the sleepy human suburbs for…

There’s nothing Willem Dafoe can’t do. The critically revered American actor has played everything from Jesus Christ (The Last Temptation of Christ) to the Green Goblin (Spider-Man) from an iconic vampire (The Shadow of the Vampire) to a manic vampire hunter (Nosferatu), and a big-hearted motel manager (The Florida Project). And even with this list,…