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Category: Monsters
Branded a Tyrant: Rescuing Superman Video Games with the ‘Injustice’ Series
In 2017, with the release of video game Injustice 2, published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Guinness World Records recognised … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
Aliens in Popular Culture: ‘Half-Life 2’
Half-Life (2004), a game designed by David Speyrer, opens with a transdimensional alien invasion of the Black Mesa Research Facility … More
Remembering ‘Alien’ Differently with ‘Alien: The Illustrated Story’
The 1979 story of Alien begins with a quote from Joseph Conrad. Not the mining ship Nostromo, named after one of Conrad’s novels, … More
Video Game Franchises: Bioshock
As a spiritual successor to Ken Levine’s cyber-punk classics System Shock (1994) and System Shock 2 (1999), the BioShock franchise … More
The Society of the ‘Fight Club’ is the Society of the Spectacle
When Jack, the lead protagonist and narrator of Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999), is at work, he monologues that “with insomnia, … More
Navigating the Hollywood Monsters of the ‘Resident Evil’ Videogame Franchise
Following an arc from the haunted house terror of the original release in 1996 through to an explosive apex of … More
‘The Sopranos’: Mythologizing the Gangster Genre
In a 1933 publicity piece for the film Blondie Johnson, Warner Brothers declared that, “The value of [gangster] films now … More
‘Richard III’ Is Ian McKellen’s Glorious Rendition of an Absolute Villain
If, as playground mnemonics for remembering the order of the visible colors within the spectrum of light are accurate and … More
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