Part Three & Four: Hazardous Environments & Minecarts Mine themed levels always signify a hazardous environment when they appear in video games. … More
Category: 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? … More
“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 … 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’ 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, … More
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 … 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
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
Geeky Love Letters: A Love Letter to ‘Fallout 4’
Dear Fallout 4, From January to December 2018, we enjoyed a whirlwind relationship in a lamp-lit room with the curtains closed … More
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 2)
The first game in Rocksteady’s Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) uses the same voice cast as Batman: The Animated Series (including Arleen Sorkin as Harley … More
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 1)
In the comparatively short period of 25 years that Dr. Harleen Quinzel has been dressing a certain way, following a … 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
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