Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

I haven’t written a review (or much of anything else really) in quite a while but having finally beaten the lovely Machinarium, I wanted to give the game its dues while it was still fresh in my mind. Machinarium, by Czech studio Amanita Design, is a point-and-click adventure game that was released back in 2009. [...]

I was looking forward to this series ever since it was announced in what seems like ages ago and the disappointment that was the feature film only served to fan those flames of excitement. I really wanted the Green Lantern franchise to redeem itself in the eyes of the general public because it’s a great [...]

I was beside myself with excitement when I learned that the entirety of the 100 Bullets team would be working on a sci-fi book, even if I had no idea what to expect from it. As a genre, science fiction is as far removed from crime as you can get and I was curious as [...]

It’s great when a piece of entertainment lives up to fantastic concept art like the one above. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Thor has had some great runs in the comics but he’s arguably better known as one of the “Big Three” in the Avengers alongside Captain America and Iron Man. With the Avengers movie [...]

The first thing I did after watching 127 Hours in the theater was to hit up IMDB to refresh my memory on director Danny Boyle’s previous efforts. Of his movies that I’ve seen, I happen to dislike 28 Days Later on many levels and I think Sunshine started out really strong before it plummeted into mediocrity a [...]

It was the posters that did it. With Dark Knight standing alone in the list of Christopher Nolan films I like, I effortlessly waded through months and months of anticipation and speculation over his next film prior to release. If the internet is anything to go by, the guy clearly has a huge following but [...]

I can’t talk about The Flash: Rebirth without first talking about my tremendous expectations for the title. Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver turned me into a huge Hal Jordan fan (a character I previously had zero interest in) with Green Lantern: Rebirth and that book and its pure comic booky-ness stands as one of [...]

DC’s line of direct-to-DVD animated features have been of varying quality so far. I think the biggest issue these movies have is the 70 minute time limit which leaves little room for character exploration and makes a lot of these seem like quick “get in, get out” ordeals. I think Wonder Woman succeeded because it [...]

Bit For Byte is my foray into this podcasting business. My friend Mark and I have been working on this for a while now, figuring out a bunch of stuff on the fly and generally having a good time with it. Bit For Byte is primarily a video game podcast where we’ll be reviewing contemporary [...]

Tower defense games are perhaps the most thriving and successful video game genre on the iPhone right now. The more passive nature and the “tap to select, tap to place, tap to upgrade” nature of these games lend themselves very well to a device that, I think, has yet to prove itself as a true [...]