On June 15, Square Enix made dreams come true. Finally. That’s right: much beloved RPG game Final Fantasy VII is getting a full remake. Not an HD remastering. Not a feature-length movie. Not character cameos in another game. A FULL REMAKE.
Where Do We Stand? Women in May’s Comics and Graphic Novel Sales
With the Secret Wars and Convergence titles at every turn, how are sales faring? And more importantly, where are the women?
#CastingShadow: American Gods is Finally Making It to TV
On Tuesday, June 16th, Starz retweeted from a new Starz affiliated account— linking to a Deadline Hollywood article announcing that at long last, a live-action adaptation of American Gods had found its way out of development hell, still with Hannibal‘s Bryan Fuller at the helm. The American Gods Twitter followed it up with a tweet encouraging fans…
Gin & Kate Review IDW’s X-Files Season 10 Volume 3: How One Scene Ruined An Entire Volume
The X-Files: Season 10, Vol. 3 Joe Harris (scripter), Matthew Dow Smith (illustrator), Jordie Bellaire (colorist), Robbie Robbins, Neil Uyetake, & Chris Mowry (letterer) IDW December 2, 2014 The anticipation for The X-Files continues to grow. David Duchovny admitted that the new script made him cry, and The A.V. Club is speculating that the revival…
Game Diary: Dating Sims, Branching Narratives, and Cuties!
All through the month of June, my partner and I are creating a dating sim for the International Love Ultimatum Gamejam (#ilujam on Twitter and Tumblr). Want to know what goes into making a video game? I’ll be posting weekly updates in a structured development blog here. This week: dating sim basics and writing branching…
No Whitewashing Here: Lewis & Clark Mini’s Sacagawea Played By Native Actress
We’ve written A LOT about whitewashing in our media here on the site but this time, it won’t be another post about the erasure of people of colour. HBO is creating a Lewis and Clark miniseries and have cast Tanaya Beatty from the Da’naxda’xw First Nation in Canada to play Sacagawea (a Shoshone native woman). That’s already fantastic…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
It’s Wednesday, gaming fans. Raise your hand if you’ve spent all your money in the Steam summer sale. Excellent. And raise your hand it you’ve been up late scoping out all the E3 news. Uh huh, no worries, I get it. Don’t let it consume your life; there’s other gaming news out there in the great…
Beauty & the Geek: Casual Costuming, Steampunk Style
In my last two Beauty and the Geek posts, I focused on Stealth Cosplay. Specifically stealth cosplay modeled after Anya Corazon and Cassie Sandsmark. This time I wanted to try something different, inspired by my time spent at Collective Con, Jacksonville’s first big pop culture convention, where I dressed up in what I call “Casual…
The Lord of the Rings, The Magicians, and Finally Learning How Not to Nerd-shame
I’ve always had a lot of opinions about The Lord of the Rings and all of them were always correct. Between the ages of 10 to 15, The Lord of the Rings books were my books. I read them every summer—thanks to my less-than-great school system with no summer reading requirements—and thought they were the…
Shenmue 3! At E3! Can Ya Be-3-v It?
Hey, did you hear? The old Realistic Gaming mines! They’ve gawn an’ opened them back up! This town… maybe this ol’ town of Shenmue can rise up once again, really become something. Even after seceding from the once-great state of Sega *tobacco spit*. Shenmue III. Uhuh! Yup.
Who’s Responsible?: Spider-Gwen #4
Spider-Gwen #4 Jason Latour (Scripter), Robbi Rodriguez (Penciller) Rico Renzi (Colourist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer) Robbi Rodriguez (Cover Artist) Spider-Gwen #4 is probably my favorite issue of the series yet. There’s a lot less action in this issue. There’s no Vulture. No Frank Castle. No running from the cops. The conflict in this issue is all…
Eat all the Oreos: An Interview with Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a story about a very funny sixteen year old boy who is not quite out of the closet. He’s come to terms with it himself, but he’s not ready to share it with the rest of the world…except for one person. And that person is Blue, an anonymous,…