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“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…

Excavating Indiana Jones, Film, May 2020, Print Essays, Video Games

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…

Apr 2020, Film, Online Essays, Video Games

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,…

Dec 2019, Fanbase Press, Online Articles, Video Games

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…

Dec 2019, Fanbase Press, Online Articles, Video Games

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…

Fanbase Press, Oct 2019, Online Articles, Video Games

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…

Apr 2019, Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, Online Essays

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…

Aliens in Popular Culture, March 2019, Print Articles, Video Games

Aliens in Popular Culture: ‘Firefly’/’Serenity’

Prior to Firefly (2002–2003), creator Joss Whedon had written demons (in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer), mutants (in…

Aliens in Popular Culture, Film, March 2019, Print Articles, Television

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…

Fanbase Press, Feb 2019, Online Articles, Video Games

‘The Ghost in the Shell’ and the Anxiety of the Machines

Shirow’s The Ghost in the Shell, together with titles such as Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1982-1990) and Yuzo Takada’s 3×3 Eyes (1987-2002), represent the cultural…

Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, Nov 2018, Online Essays

‘Serenity: Leaves on the Wind’ and Developing the ‘Firefly’ Family

Leaves on the Wind has one central theme that stretches throughout its galactic core and on towards its border planets: Family.…

Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, June 2018, Online Essays, Television

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,…

Apr 2018, Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, Online Essays

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