While the movie Alien was released in 1979, the first video game adaptation of the science-fiction horror experience came three years later … More
Tag: 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, … 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
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