I’ve been playing RPGs since I got a copy of Baldur’s Gate free with a desktop my family bought some years back. I would agonize over my character’s name and features, play the opening chapters, and then quit, forget about it, and start over some time later. I could probably quote those first few scenes…
As you may know (you’re on a website called Geek Insider after all) Electronic Sports not only draw the best players in games such as Starcraft, League of Legends and more, but also bigger crowds than some baseball games (up to 1.7 million) and prize-money of unprecedented size. With an emerging marketplace of talent and…
I stepped off the plane and was immediately beset on all sides by thick Scottish mist. So far, so stereotypical; they probably shipped in spare fog from the highlands just to make up any deficits. I’m up here for the world-famous Fringe Festival, and to check out my brother’s improv troupe. Also to sample some…
You might have noticed the last few weeks on the Internet have been, for want of a better word, tragic. At the beginning of last month, Twitter made headlines after Caroline Criado-Perez, who had fronted a successful campaign to put Jane Austin on the £10 note, was barraged by tweets threatening rape, murder and more….
I’m going through a phase. Sometimes, I’ll catch myself on YouTube watching a game of Crusader Kings II unfold as a nervous guy talks off-camera in a monotone punctuated by bursts of uncharacteristic enthusiasm. The premise: a person records their gaming session, narrating as they go – highs, lows, awkward pauses, expletives and all –…
Animated shows have a subjective hierarchy. When Fox lines up hours of television dedicated to “Animation Domination” (including some, shockingly not created by Seth MacFarlane), choices for cartoon chuckles are numerous. But how do you rate the big names? Are you a South Park supporter, or do you prefer probably-past-its-prime Family Guy? Futurama: The End…
Coheed and Cambria are a band that really stands out from the rest. Hard to define genre-wise (landing somewhere between Alt-Rock, Progressive, and shades of Pop), they have been releasing quality music on a consistent basis for over a decade now, all of which is impossibly high concept. The Armory Wars The New York-based four-piece…
I was in the dentist’s waiting room, browsing my phone for something to distract from the guilt and shame my teeth were about to feel, when I remembered a conversation I had with a friend where we discussed the representations of race, gender, and sexuality in media. Seconds later, I was where any respectable university-graduate…
Someone once said that Civilization V is the closest thing man has invented to a time machine. By this, the reviewer was not commenting on game’s stunning recreation of periods and personalities from history; rather that one could sit down to play it, stand up again almost instantly, and find twelve hours passed. That’s the…
‘Preacher’ and’ The Boys’ are two graphic novels from the immeasurably talented Garth Ennis. The latter ended recently (2012) while Preacher is a product of the 90s. The weight of the decade between the two is evident: the world has changed dramatically between their publication. Both series are love letters to the USA, but in…
The trailer for the forth season of The Walking Dead is out, and I am excited. It looks like we’ll have more side-characters for the zombies to munch on; a change of location; and Tyreese might actually get a few lines. But beyond the visceral, ponderous madness that is the show, I have a problem….
They are coming for you. You cannot escape them. Everyone is aware of them. They may have even taken hold of your loved ones already. We Love the Apocalypse! (But, Why?) I’m talking of course about post-apocalyptic movies. Previous years have seen a plague descending upon our theaters, and 2013 was no different. Blowing up…
“Thanks for saving me, mister,” the little girl says, turning away to wriggle home through a tube in the wall, “oh by the way, here’s loads of Adam. See ya.” But hang on, I think, that’s not what was supposed to happen. I sacrificed my rewards in order to save you! vGet back here and…
Recently, the BBC announced that it was putting it’s 3D project “on hold indefinitely”. The project, which had been in development for about two years now, has already seen such eminently British affairs as this and last years Wimbledon Tennis Finals and the 2012 Queen’s Christmas speech broadcast in the format. Yes, true to the…
The last half of season 5 of Breaking Bad is approaching, a high-octane finale which promises to be what show-runner Vince Gilligan had envisioned from the start. Over the past few years, the brain behind Breaking Bad has done a fantastic job of showing Walter White’s slow descent into hardened criminality, until he is unrecognizable…