I am interested in discursive overlaps, institutional challenges, adaptive crossovers, and all the other ways that transmedia products and social…
“We’ll always have Iceland, Indy”: Indiana Jones and His Adventures in Video Games
Founded by George Lucas in 1971, Lucasfilm is the production company famously behind the Indiana Jones and Star Wars movie…
#DataMines: Mining in Games – Deep Sea Mining & Lasers
Part Nine & Ten: Deep Sea Mining & Lasers In the final blog post of this series, I thought it…
#DataMines: Mining in Games – Surface Mining & Sub-Surface Mining
Part Seven & Eight: Surface Mining & Sub-Surface Mining The hit game of 2020 has everything in it. In Animal Crossing:…
#DataMines: Mining in Games – Cap Lamps & Pickaxes
Part Five & Six: Cap Lamps & Pickaxes Without question, experimentation and industriousness are qualities linked to those that go…
#DataMines: Mining in Games – Hazardous Environments & Minecarts
Part Three & Four: Hazardous Environments & Minecarts Mine themed levels always signify a hazardous environment when they appear in video games.…
#DataMines: Mining in Games – Raw Materials & Drills
Part One & Two: Raw Materials & Drills Are you missing our mines? Feeling underwhelmed that you can’t get underground?…
In Space, No One Can Hear You Waka Waka Waka – ‘Alien’ for the Atari 2600
While the movie Alien was released in 1979, the first video game adaptation of the science-fiction horror experience came three years later…
Fanbase Press’ Holiday Gift Guide: Comics & Books
The Art of Point-and-Click Adventure GamesRecommended by Carl WilsonPublisher: Bitmap Books Picking this up for my LucasArts fix (Monkey Island,…
Fanbase Press’ Holiday Gift Guide: Video Games
Bloodstained: Ritual of the NightRecommended by Carl WilsonDevelopers: ArtPlay, Inti Creates, WayForward, Monobit, DICO Co., Ltd. With development led by…
Fanbase Press’ Scariest: ‘Resident Evil 2’ (2019)
I’m climbing up a metal ladder; it’s some time at night, and the rain is making everything glisten, including the…
Fundamental Comics: Back to Earth for Ripley, Newt, and Hicks in the Alternate ‘Aliens’ Trilogy: ‘Outbreak,’ ‘Nightmare Asylum,’ and ‘Earth War’ and the Study of Humanity
Despite being a continuation from the Aliens movie storyline, once Alien 3 was released in 1992, the comic-created world became distinctly non-canon. In the…
