I’m just going to say this up front: I don’t really care about Batman. To me he’s always been a vehicle for stylish action movies or cool open-world video games. Aside from that, he’s just a libertarian power fantasy—a moneyed man that will do what that state can’t. And it’s …
Harley Quinn is one of the best and most interesting characters to come out of Batman’s gallery of villains. Since her first appearance in Batman: The Animated Series, she’s appeared in comics with regularity, and she’s headlined a few books of her own. Once a villain, The New 52 and …
With its square-jawed focus on the inner workings of Bruce Wayne, Batman: The Telltale Series has, until now, been missing a lot of the sort of relationship drama that’s the highlight of the best Telltale games. I must admit, the previous episode, Children of Arkham, worked so well as a …
Telltale Games have a long and impressive track record when it comes to using violence and gore to foster an emotional response. The Walking Dead did this repeatedly—putting down Lee’s brother, for example, or having to manually control Clementine as she stitches up a wound without anaesthetic. Choosing (or being …
The other day, Telltale Games announced that Batman: A Telltale Series would include a new multiplayer feature called Crowd Play, allowing groups of people to cooperatively make the decisions that drive the game. This could be huge, mainly because it’s reinforcing something that I think has long been true for Telltale’s adventures—they may …
With the new Justice League trailer released at Comic Con last week, we got a look at the new-look Aquaman, played by Jason Momoa. Previously only the subject of promotional stills, set shots, and a brief cameo in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the trailer let fans briefly see Aquaman in action. Unsurprisingly, …
Telltale Games have released the first trailer for their upcoming Batman: A Telltale Series, bringing with it further hope that this game might just be the second coming of Batman: The Animated Series that so many Batman fans have been waiting for. The Animated Series set itself apart through brilliant writing—it was dark and heavy, …
Maybe Naughty Dog should have gotten Joshua Williamson to write Uncharted 4, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading the Uncharted comic, it’s that this is a man who knows what makes the series tick. It has all the action, all the laughs, and all the characterisation that …
There’s always a lot of hype around really big LEGO builds, be it an official set like the 5,195-piece Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon or a custom build like this 5,000-piece Jaeger robot from Pacific Rim. I’m just as taken with the opposite end of the scale, though; the sets that can capture the heart …
This week, DC Comics kicked off their Convergence event. What is that, you may ask? In short, it’s an effort by DC to simplify their increasingly complicated continuity by bringing characters from different series and different universes together, making them fight one another because of Reasons, and making publisher-wide storyline …
