One look at the titular building in Batman: Arkham Asylum, and you can understand why Gotham City has such a problem with homicidal madmen. Outside, the place makes the typical cemetery look like a Smurf theme park. Inside, it’s even worse, what with i …
You’d think the characters in the SoulCalibur series would’ve gotten tired of the whole “quest for the sacred sword(s)” thing by now and retreated to their couches to watch Matlock reruns. Not so. After 12 years, Cervantes, Astaroth, Yoshimitsu et al a …
We all have ideas about what happens to us after we die. We think about how we’ll walk through the Pearly Gates, hang with the angels or surround the throne of God. We might imagine heaven as being filled with fluffy clouds, classical architecture, tow …
If someone sauntered up to ya, spit out his chaw and started talkin’ ’bout a Western, yer brain might jump to the title of an old Louis L’Amour paperback you once picked up in a used bookstore. Or maybe you’d think of that John Wayne DVD that’s collect …
If you’re one of those people who always wants to pull out the Risk game whenever friends or family are looking for something fun to do—or you just look forward to dressy occasions because your Napoleon hat makes you look so tall and commanding—then I …
“Why so serious?” So says the evil Joker in The Dark Knight, the bleakest Batman movie ever. And, though the Joker wasn’t talking to Batman, he might as well have been. Never the cheeriest of superheroes, Batman has recently become the cinematic poster …
I often marvel at how incredibly realistic video games can be nowadays. After making my way through some virtual cave or jungle, I feel like I ought to dust the grime and cobwebs off my clothes. And the complexity of current interweaving gameplay is li …
