Andrew Newton on the top 10 live action video game trailers… In recent years developers have taken to using live action trailers as a means to build up the excitement of the game prior to its release.  The trailers evoke a number of emotional reactions ranging from humour to sorrow, they may be filmed in […]

Trevor Hogg explores both the dark and humorous side of Batman…  With the Blu-ray and DVD releases of the second season of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, season one of Young Justice and Beware the Batman: Dark Justice, the Warner Archive Collection showcases various Dark Knights who can appeal to children, teens and adults; […]

Anghus Houvouras on the Derivative Age… de·riv·a·tive adjective 1. imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that reason. synonyms: imitative, unoriginal, uninventive, unimaginative, uninspired originating from, based on, or influenced by. 2. something that is based on another source. I struggled over the last week trying to give it a […]

News started to filter around various corners of the internet yesterday about the inevitable series of new Star Wars books due for releases in the next year or so. While some of them are centred around Star Wars: Rebels and also kids activity books there was one title in particular that stood out from the […]

The CW has released a new interview featurette for its latest DC superhero series The Flash, which sees Grant Gustin (Barry Allen) and Danielle Panabaker (Caitlin Snow) discussing the Scarlett Speedster’s growing Rogues Gallery; check it out here… http://youtu.be/sQKL2iL6CPA “After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning […]

Marvel Studios has announced that Daniel Bruhl (Inglourious Basterds, Rush) has signed on for an as-yet-unrevealed role in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, with producer Kevin Feige stating that: “With Daniel’s ability to deliver intense, nuanced performances, we knew we had found yet another great actor to share the screen with some of our biggest […]

Tom Powter looks at the ten best newcomers in Super Smash Bros. 4…. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is released tomorrow! It’s been a long six years since Super Smash Bros. Brawl came to the Nintendo Wii in 2008 and a lot’s changed since then. As with each new Smash Bros game, we are […]

Thomas Roach with five characters who could be the Arkham Knight…. Batman: Arkham Knight has now been pushed back until June 2015 to the disappointment of many fans. Despite this delay and the original release date passing, fans still have no idea of the identity of the new villain, the Arkham Knight. Rocksteady, the studio […]

Andy Naylor looks back at 20 years of consoles and the games that made them… The Xbox One (the name is still amusingly stupid) and the PS4 have been out for nearly a year, and to date, neither console has managed to produce a game that is generation defining, something that makes other people say, […]