Video Games

For whatever reason, real life martial arts fights are somehow not as cool as we all imagine them to be. It may be the lack of slow-motion, superhuman jumping or magic fireballs, but whatever the…

It’s pretty obvious that pretty much every movie that has ever been based on a video game has been utter crap.  When the best of the genre are Silent Hill and the Resident Evil series,…

It’s not terribly difficult to understand the massive success of Arkham Asylum. Quite simply, the game is a Batman simulator, and it’s the closest any gamer has ever come to living a childhood fantasy of…

Super Mario Bros., for all its notoriety, is a pretty weird game.  You’ve got a couple of Italian plumbers that can increase in size from eating mushrooms.  They smash blocks marked with question marks that…

We’re big on video game themes being played by various instruments here.  But I’m surprised none of us have gone after Legend of Zelda.  Sure, we’ve added a theme or two but never have we…

It’s hard to imagine a time when there weren’t amazing gaming consoles on the market.  I mean today it feels endless.  You’ve got your Wii, Play Station, XBox, portable devices, and even your computer can…

Instead of an intro paragraph, I’m going to quote you a Limp Bizkit song that adequately sums up this post. Yup. It’s just one of those days When you don’t wanna wake up Everything is…

The great thing about concept art is that the artist isn’t limited by any sort of sense of logic and functionality. Their products can be purely about design and therefore tend to look awesome. The…

You know what’s funny about Cosplay?  It’s an illusion.  It’s become so popular because of its name.  That’s it.  That’s my theory.  You take costume, combine it with “play” and all of a sudden you…