The Fantastic Four are Marvel’s First Family. Marvel had heroes before them, but the Four are the super team that put Marvel on the map. They were more than superheroes from the onset, being a group of individuals who truly cared for each other, with their stories split between typical heroic adventures and emotionally based […]
These days, Insomniac gets a lot of credit as a leading developer of Marvel superhero games. The hype is well deserved, and the Marvel’s Spider-Man games are great. However, before Insomniac brought us the web-slinger, another developer delivered some of the best Marvel games. In the 2000s, Raven Software delivered action RPGs that let gamers […]
Captain America is, in every way that counts, the leader of the Marvel Universe. Or at least the parts of it on Earth. Steve Rogers burned to fight against the Nazi menace, with his frail body being the only thing to hold him back. The super soldier serum (and Vita-Rays; no one ever remembers the […]
Ten years ago, No Man’s Sky was promised as the largest sci-fi RPG of all time, and each trailer looked more impressive than the last. Hello Games showcased an enormous universe full of procedurally generated planets, exploration, trading, survival, discovery, and multiplayer possibilities. Yet, when the game launched in August of 2016, the truth was […]
A good twist can recontextualize a whole movie, especially on a second viewing. If you know in advance a film’s big secret, you’ll pick up on things you didn’t notice before; little sprinkles of foreshadowing that make the twist all the more satisfying. This can even apply to individual lines, the best of which take […]
Video game history is full of strange games. Many of these stand out because of how bizarre they are, especially in today’s age when streamers pick up games specifically because they are weird or off the wall. But one of the most obscure and wildly weird games was released 26 years ago on the Sega […]
Sony had huge plans for their film universe centered around Spider-Man, but this planned shared universe was a tough sell from the start because of the glaring issue that it didn’t actually involve Spider-Man. The wildly popular character was over in the MCU thanks to a partnership between Marvel Studios and Sony. Though they’ve done […]
The X-Men have been home to many of Marvel’s greatest couples over the years, but one of them easily stands above the other. It’s not Cyclops and Jean Grey; while they are often considered the first couple of the team, let’s be real – their relationship has no heat to it whatsoever, it mostly feels […]
It has been 30 years since Marvel Comics ended one of its longest-running comic books, the finish of a 33-year run that featured some of the biggest Marvel superheroes in history. The Avengers started their run in 1963 from creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby when Iron Man, Thor, Wasp, and Ant-Man teamed up to […]
When Kane Parson’s Backrooms was released earlier this year, it was many people’s first foray into liminal horror. Though the subgenre has been around since at least 2019, if not longer, it was the success of Parson’s Backrooms YouTube series that popularized the concept before the Backrooms film would bring it to the mainstream. A […]