Overwatch has a wonderfully deep lore behind its payload-moving gameplay. Whilst you wouldn't necessarily know this from watching the chaotic online shooter in action, Blizzard fill out its massive roster of characters' histories via mini-m...

Akira Toriyama is arguably the most well-known artist out of Japan. His name is synonymous with two of the most popular franchises in the world: Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest. The former is his own creation, one that came to life over 1...

Lisbeth Salander should not be a superheroine. While the character is resourceful and strong, physically, mentally, and morally, The Girl in the Spider's Web turned her into some sort of action movie secret agent-type. As satisfying as...

Fortnite is inarguably the biggest game on the planet right now. Everybody is playing it. Gamers, kids, streamers, children, athletes, tykes, and even some of the biggest names in Hollywood (except for Lady Gaga who, as we found out la...

I won’t beat around the bush here; this movie blows. I was gonna do this whole intro I normally do where I tell you about how scary the Goosebumps books were when I was a kid, and blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda, and this new thing,...

Bringing Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's novel Good Omens to the screen was a saga far too long. Multiple attempts to make the fantasy-comedy story into a movie had failed, and it was then decided to turn it into a television show instead...

The angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley, played by Michael Sheen and David Tennant respectively, are an odd duo. Their history together goes back 6,000 years, and to the dismay of the former, the two are teaming up to save the wor...

David Fincher's excellent adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is getting a sort-of follow-up in the form of The Girl in the Spider's Web. It's a strange situation, with Fincher and stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig not retur...

Does anyone even know what's happening with American Gods anymore? Every time I hear about the series, it's never anything positive. First, we learned that Bryan Fuller and Michael Green were dropped due to "creative differences",...

Superman actor and human weapon Henry Cavill has long been teasing his interest in playing Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's upcoming adaptation of The Witcher, but only today has the casting become official. Both showrunner Lauren Schmidt ...

Much of the talk surrounding the film adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians is the need for Asian representation in Hollywood—while I'm with it all the way, it isn't what attracted me to the movie. See, people seem to forget that being Asia...

Titan Comics has announced a selection of new trade paperback comics coming to store shelves over September-October. This Fall run features new releases from the ongoing Bloodborne, Dark Souls and Assassin's Creed lines, as well as the debu...

We all know how it is. Sometimes you come home from a hard day's scavenging, open the fridge and what's staring at you? Oh boy, roaches and glass. Again. Well, now you can shake up that tired old menu with a new release from publisher Insig...

God of War managed to thrust Kratos into a new era and provide a whole new sense of relevancy for the series. It's strange to think that the franchise had been meandering around with spinoffs and prequels since the last mainline entry eight...

I don't think I'm rustling any feathers when I say that The Last Jedi was a film that divided the Star Wars fanbase. Whether you love it to death or hate it, anyone can see that its polarizing reception has changed the f...

[Header courtesy of sandara] [Update: Amazon now currently has the Hero's Edition available for reservation.] A few months ago, Dark Horse Comics announced it would be releasing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Creating a Champion ...

Pop-up books were all the rage back when I was a kid. They were a lot of fun, until they got replaced by... I dunno... Screamer videos? Regardless, it was a lot of fun turning the page slowly and watching all of the cleverly-constructed pap...

To say that NieR: Automata is a great game wouldn't do it justice, it's one of the best games I've played in years and a lot of that has to do with the story. I'm only 20 or so hours into it and it's already reduced me to tears a few times,...

The early story of Pokemon is fairly well guarded. Although the original team might come out of the woodwork every so often and give us a nugget or two the initial designs for the first 151 can be somewhat of a mystery. But the curtain is b...

Released late last year in Japan, Breath of the Wild - Master Works was a collection of design documents around 2017's smash hit that included art work, developer interviews and a whole lot more. It basically followed in the vein of things ...

Producer Lauren S. Hissrich has taken to social media once again, revealing a little more about Netflix' upcoming TV series based on CD Projekt RED's popular RPG franchise The Witcher.Some of the writers for the show's eight episodes have b...

At Netflix' "See What's Next" media event, held this weekend in Rome, showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich gave some sparse new deets regarding the television adaptation of the video game and book series, The Witcher, which was first announced abo...

French book publisher Third Edition have announced that their second Kickstarter campaign has been hugely successful, thus enabling them to localise a selection of their highly-acclaimed video game tomes.Nearly 2,000 backers contributed ove...

Last summer yielded some hits and misses in ye olde Stephen King adaptation department. Obviously, we had It. Andy Muschietti's adaptation was refreshing, well directed and ideated creatively, and--most importantly--a hit with audiences. It...

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One came out this past week. Despite Matt's review, the movie is doing quite well at the box office, so it's no surprise that studios are going to be cla...