This Arrow review contains spoilers.  Arrow Season 8 Episode 1 This episode of Arrow is more playful and fun than the show has been in a long time, and that’s not just the nostalgia talking. Sure, there’s the fun of bringing back so many old favorites for a victory lap, but we’ve all seen plenty of shows
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This article contains spoilers for the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic, and possibly the TV version. There’s an old saying in the DC universe: Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. Either way, there’s probably a Crisis coming. That’s not really a saying, but for such a multiverse-shattering series
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Release Date: Oct. 1, 2019 Platforms: XBO (reviewed), PS4, PC, StadiaDeveloper: BungiePublisher: BungieGenre: Action MMO Bungie’s first major Destiny 2 expansion since splitting with Activision feels like the original Destiny—in the best and worst of ways. Here are the armor stats of the first game, but with more customization. And here too is Eris Morn, the morose ex-Guardian whose fireteam was devastated by the Hive.
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In an interview with Gamespot, Devolver Digital founder co-founder Graeme Struthers defends Steam in regards to their revenue split model and other business practices.  “Every month we were getting paid, and you were being paid accurately,” says Struthers of Steam. “We’ve all got our horror stories about doing audits on our publishers and finding huge
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Controversial shooter series Postal is getting a sequel called Postal 4: No Regerts. Yes, that seems to be an intentional misspelling.  Postal 4 is being developed by Running With Scissors and looks like about what you’d expect from a “classic” Postal title. In other words, you play as Postal Guy as he tries to make a
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Back at San Diego Comic Con 2019, the team behind The CW’s DC shows revealed quite a bit about next season’s big crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Among the news: Tom Cavanagh (who plays the various Harrison Wellses of the multiverse) will be playing Pariah from the comics. That’s…a pretty deep cut. They could have
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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 31 Episode 3 The Simpsons, season 31, episode 3, “The Fat Blue Line,” is a supporting character-led episode, focusing on Chief Clancy Wiggum, the worst cop the state attorney’s investigating officer ever had the pleasure of humiliating in front of his men. While stories focusing on secondary character stories
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While I love a good epic fantasy read where an unassuming, usually male, usually white farmboy learns of his great destiny to save the world, there are so many fantasy stories that exist outside of that framework.  One of my favorite ways to see fantasy genre tropes subverted is by taking the usual feudal European-like
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The end of Breaking Bad felt like the end of an era. The Golden Age of Television, marked by writer/creator-driven dramas focused on male anti-hero protagonists, arguably kicked off when Tony Soprano carried out a hit while on a college visit with his daughter, and ended when chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin Walter White took
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There’s never a bad season of the year for reading. Whether it’s winter, summer, spring, or fall, there’s a reading habit that goes oh-so-well with the season. But there’s something about fall—when the leaves are changing (at least in some parts of the world) and the nights are getting longer—that makes me want to curl up
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Being the oldest of the three major current console platforms, you’d think Nintendo would pay the most respect to its long legacy of much-beloved games and franchises. After all, the company has been trading for well over 130 years now, having entered the electronic era in the early 1970s before quite literally changing the game
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This Charmed review contains spoilers. Charmed Season 2, Episode 1 The first season of Charmed introduced us to Mel and Maggie, and their half-sister Macy who they only learned about after their mother’s death in the premier. It established who they were as individuals and how they fit together as a part of a powerful
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Fortnite‘s next update will seemingly be the start of a new era for the game.  This information comes from an apparent leak on the Italian iOS app store which showcases a screenshot of Fortnite that includes the words “Capitolo 2.” That translates to Chapter 2, which is s pretty bold phrase to use in relation
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The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid, DC’s latest middle school graphic novel, is a perfect read for the Halloween season. The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid has earned rave reviews from literary outlets such as Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Booklist who herald it as “a comedic win”, “an excellent and inviting foray into
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