Over the years, Xbox has moved from its iconic library of single-player titles to more live-service multiplayer experiences. That strategy has produced some impressive successes, but there comes a point when supporting an aging game can become less valuable than building what comes next. A great multiplayer game does not necessarily need to exist forever. […]
The Gundam franchise might have first started in the 1970s, but the mech universe has continued thanks to its versatility. While the original Universal Century storyline introduced viewers to the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, countless other stories have emerged. Gundam Wing, The Witch From Mercury, G Gundam, and Gundam […]
Almost three decades ago this week, one of the most iconic cartoon comedy shows in small screen history debuted with a grisly gag that the series then repeated over a hundred times before it was retired. It is sometimes tough to understand just how much the success of The Simpsons reshaped TV history. Even saying […]
Though the details are still relatively scarce, a new X-Men movie is officially happening. This will officially bring the mutants into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in full form. I, for one, am pretty excited. I’ve loved the X-Men since my early days watching X-Men: Evolution on Cartoon Network. Naturally, that means I eagerly watched every […]
Dinosaurs in movies are nothing new; the trouble being that the 65 million years that separates them with modern humanity results in there needing to be a REALLY good reason for them to show up in a movie. Sometimes you get something like The Flintstones, or King Kong, or One Million B.C. that come pre-packaged […]
At the beginning of James Gunn’s Superman movie last summer, a title card appears on screen that offers some hints about the timeline of the newly formed DCU. It revealed that for three centuries, metahumans have been running around Earth in some form or another, with no clear examples of who or what that meant. […]
When people think of Chris Pratt and comic book films, their minds tend to go to Guardians of the Galaxy, but his first movie in the genre was actually way before that and saw him alongside several future Marvel and DC actors. It’s always fun to look back at a film from a long time […]
Friday the 13th as most people know it took time to find its identity. Series icon Jason Voorhees wasn’t even the killer in the original movie; it was his mother, and when it comes to the version of Jason people recognize, that didn’t really exist until the third entry. Indeed, Friday the 13th Part 2, […]
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the Black Clover manga! When it comes to Shonen rivalries, Naruto and Black Clover are often mentioned among the best. Rivalries between the protagonist and a deuteragonist have been one of the best tropes in the Shonen demographic for years. Whether it’s Goku and Vegeta from Dragon Ball or […]
Comic book adaptations are frequently associated with Marvel and DC, the two biggest publishers in the industry. Ask a casual moviegoer to picture a comic movie, and the answer defaults to the Avengers assembling or Batman prowling a rain-soaked Gotham. Yet the comic medium has always been broader than tights and team-ups, spanning slice-of-life memoirs, […]