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AdaptationBooksGamingProductReviews
Out of all the character-rich world of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings that are deserving of a game, the last individual you would expect would be the former Hobbit turned ghoul, Smeagol, or as he’s known by his more nefarious nickname/personality, Gollum, who is reviled in the books but was sort of a fan favorite in the Peter Jackson films thanks in part to the talent of Andy Serkis who voiced, and motion captured the character. Anyone who’s seen the movies is familiar with Gollum’s part in the stories of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films, but not about what happened to him between the events of the two film series. Daedalic Entertainment has filled in the gaps with their stealth game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum follows, well who else… Gollum, and Smeagol, for those not familiar, the title character has split personality after being consumed by the power of
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AdaptationBooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsGamingProductReviewsSci-Fi
Warhammer has been around for a while now as a tabletop wargame that has an expansive universe with different themes, the most popular being Warhammer 40K which takes epic fantasy to space. The series recently is garnering a lot of attention as talks of bringing the popular installment of the tabletop wargame to screen through Amazon Studios with the help of Warhammer fanboy, Henry Cavill. With that, the series is beginning to see new installments through video games expanding on the world of the beloved Space Marines. Focus Entertainment and Auroch Digital are allowing players to fill the large boots of a Space Marine in the retro fps, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Warhammer 40,000:Boltgun is set after the events of Space Marine where the Inquisition has sent a group of Ultramarines to the planet Graia after a warp rift was opened and allowed Chaos forces to return. Players take on the role of Malum Caedo, the lone survivor of his group
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ProductReviews
We all fantasize about drinking from the skull of our enemies, you’re lying if you say you never “thought” about it! So to avoid the potential legal and ethical ramifications, you’ll have to settle for a regular cup…OR, you can get yourself a highly detailed cup that will make your guests do a quintuple take when they see it. I know you’re saying “The perfect cup/mug to drink from as I watch a horror movie/read ghost stories doesn’t exist!”, to that I say, you’re wrong! Meet the Memento Mori Cup by Trevor Foster Studio! Before continuing I would like to thank Trevor for allowing me the honor to check out this handmade work of art! The Memento Mori cup is a highly detailed skull that’s uniquely different from the cup made before it and after, making it a one-of-a-kind, just like real skulls. The skull fits comfortably in my hand and increased my bad-ass feeling by fifty points as I
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ForeignMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
A fiery explosion in space results in a meteor that is sent hurdling towards Earth. Meanwhile down on the ground, a young boy named Tommy (Óscar Martín, who appears to be having the time of his life) witnesses the meteor hurtling towards our beloved globe (in a sequence that proves the sound department on this one has zero clue what a kitten sounds like) while some dudes, poachers by disgusting trade, ass-around in the nearby day-for-night forest. Well, said dudes do both the fucking around, and the finding out as they encounter that meteor and the eggs it contains… eggs that are hatching! Because all of that was moving along at a good clip, we cut to rock n’ roll Rick (Ian Sera) who provides a song about fast cars sung with the lowest amount of energy possible before he and his pals trek off to the woods for some rest and relaxation. How does all of that tie together?
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Our fiendish friends over at Severin Films have gathered up four Italian gothic horror films, slapped them in a (beautifully embellished) box, and unleashed them on our arcane asses under the title of the Danza Macabre collection. Let’s feast our putrid peepers on what this set has to offer one by fright-filled one! Disc One brings us 1964’s The Monster of the Opera: This flick opens with a banger of a scene in which a vampire chases a young woman in a nightgown before trapping her behind an invisible wall and trying to dispatch her with a pitchfork! Flash forward and dynamic theater director Sandro (Marco Mariani) has moved his troupe of actors, dancers, and mimes into an abandoned theater despite being warned explicitly not to do so by the caretaker of the joltin’ joint, Achille (Alberto Archetti) by name, who witnessed the ghoulish goings-on mentioned up yonder! As the arsty and fartsy goes on, it becomes ever more obvious
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GamingParanormalProductReviews
Blazing Bit Games’ retro FPS Nightmare Reaper had a successful launch on Steam and now has found itself on console thanks to Feardemic! So what made this “Boomer Shooter” (as some of you so-called 90’s kids are calling it) great on PC? We’ll have to take a look! I want to thank both Blazing Bit Games and Feardemic for sending over a copy! The game follows a patient who is locked away in a sanitarium for unknown reasons to the player. The patient goes to sleep and is in a nightmarish world where she fights monsters. Now onto the game itself. Nightmare Reaper‘s controls will have to take some time to get used to for controllers as some of the buttons you are used to using for traditional uses like jumping and interacting are mapped out differently with these controls, so time to get used to them is required! The sound of Nightmare Reaper is pretty good and the soundtrack
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BooksGamingProductReviews
Thanks to popular shows like Stranger Things, tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons are becoming more popular with newer players and reigniting the passionate flame within old fans who were once made to give it up. But like a good RPG story, the adventure has to start somewhere. With many sites and stores dedicated to tabletop gaming supplies, where should a new adventurer go? This is where Misty Mountain Gaming comes in! I want to give a big thank you to Sophii and the rest of the awesome folks over at Misty Mountain for helping to make this review possible! Misty Mountain sent over the Mystery Sling Bag Bundle, the price may be shocking but it’s worth it if you want to start off your new gaming life or you want to improve it and wow your friends at the next session! you get a total of 35 dice that are randomly selected, three sets of acrylic dice, an all-metal
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MoviesReviewsSci-Fi
Junior astronomer Davey MacLean (Jimmy Hunt looking between 9 and 39 depending on the angle) is awakened one night by a thunderstorm only to witness a glowing green flying saucer land behind a large hill next to his house where it promptly sinks deep within the earth. The next morning David’s father, George (Leif Erickson in a performance that goes from lovable goof to violent, moody, secretive monster with shocking ease) heads out to investigate the hill, but comes back as a complete prickus, and soon David’s mother Mary (Hillary Brooke), his neighbor, the local constables, and more fall victim to the cosmic evil buried deep in the sand. Thankfully Dave has two erstwhile allies, Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter) and Dr. Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz… who insists on pronouncing “mutants” as “mewt-ants”), and these cats manage to call in the military (thanks to the magic of stock footage) which leads to a full-scale operation being launched against those menacing
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GamingHalloweenIndieProductReviews
I’m not alone when I say I’m not looking forward to summer’s approach and would rather have autumn again and enjoy the wonder and fun of Halloween. Saona Studios is here to scratch that Halloween itch with Death or Treat where you must save Halloween (or at least Hallowtown). Death or Treat follows a little ghost named Scary who runs a mobile candy shop called Ghost Mart. Business should be good in Hallowtown but larger corporations are stealing customers, forcing Scary to take a stand. Now onto the game itself! The controls for Death or Treat are pretty simple as this is a hack-and-slash kind of game with platforming so it’s pretty basic. The soundtrack is pretty good and fits the tone of the game as well as its art. Speaking of art, I really like the animation of the game’s cutscenes and gameplay, definitely can tell it’s hand-drawn, or at least colored in by hand, it flows quite smoothly
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GamingIndieProductReviews
Souls games are known for being tough, gritty, and dark. 505 Games and Point Blank Games have challenged the Souls game genre with Stray Blade, how does it stack up with some other Souls games? Stray Blade follows an adventurer named Farren who while on an adventure has now found themselves in an unfamiliar world he must explore with his otherworldly companion Boji while fighting off enemies that are pursuing them on their adventure. Now onto the game itself! The controls for Stray Blade are a touch confusing at first I’ll admit but having access to review the control scheme and having a tutorial helps. I don’t know if I just suck at my timing but I feel that the parry button is broken, no matter how much I time it I can’t parry but thankfully the dodge button works! Stray Blade‘s sound design will need some tweaking when you first play depending on where you have the sound coming
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Out of all the character-rich world of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings that are deserving of a game, the last individual you would expect would be the former Hobbit turned ghoul, Smeagol, or as he’s known by his more nefarious nickname/personality, Gollum, who is reviled in the books but was sort of a fan favorite in the Peter Jackson films thanks in part to the talent of Andy Serkis who voiced, and motion captured the character. Anyone who’s seen the movies is familiar with Gollum’s part in the stories of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films, but not about what happened to him between the events of the two film series. Daedalic Entertainment has filled in the gaps with their stealth game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum follows, well who else… Gollum, and Smeagol, for those not familiar, the title character has split personality after being consumed by the power of
Continue reading →
AdaptationBooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsGamingProductReviewsSci-Fi
Warhammer has been around for a while now as a tabletop wargame that has an expansive universe with different themes, the most popular being Warhammer 40K which takes epic fantasy to space. The series recently is garnering a lot of attention as talks of bringing the popular installment of the tabletop wargame to screen through Amazon Studios with the help of Warhammer fanboy, Henry Cavill. With that, the series is beginning to see new installments through video games expanding on the world of the beloved Space Marines. Focus Entertainment and Auroch Digital are allowing players to fill the large boots of a Space Marine in the retro fps, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Warhammer 40,000:Boltgun is set after the events of Space Marine where the Inquisition has sent a group of Ultramarines to the planet Graia after a warp rift was opened and allowed Chaos forces to return. Players take on the role of Malum Caedo, the lone survivor of his group
Continue reading →
ProductReviews
We all fantasize about drinking from the skull of our enemies, you’re lying if you say you never “thought” about it! So to avoid the potential legal and ethical ramifications, you’ll have to settle for a regular cup…OR, you can get yourself a highly detailed cup that will make your guests do a quintuple take when they see it. I know you’re saying “The perfect cup/mug to drink from as I watch a horror movie/read ghost stories doesn’t exist!”, to that I say, you’re wrong! Meet the Memento Mori Cup by Trevor Foster Studio! Before continuing I would like to thank Trevor for allowing me the honor to check out this handmade work of art! The Memento Mori cup is a highly detailed skull that’s uniquely different from the cup made before it and after, making it a one-of-a-kind, just like real skulls. The skull fits comfortably in my hand and increased my bad-ass feeling by fifty points as I
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
A fiery explosion in space results in a meteor that is sent hurdling towards Earth. Meanwhile down on the ground, a young boy named Tommy (Óscar Martín, who appears to be having the time of his life) witnesses the meteor hurtling towards our beloved globe (in a sequence that proves the sound department on this one has zero clue what a kitten sounds like) while some dudes, poachers by disgusting trade, ass-around in the nearby day-for-night forest. Well, said dudes do both the fucking around, and the finding out as they encounter that meteor and the eggs it contains… eggs that are hatching! Because all of that was moving along at a good clip, we cut to rock n’ roll Rick (Ian Sera) who provides a song about fast cars sung with the lowest amount of energy possible before he and his pals trek off to the woods for some rest and relaxation. How does all of that tie together?
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesReviews
Our fiendish friends over at Severin Films have gathered up four Italian gothic horror films, slapped them in a (beautifully embellished) box, and unleashed them on our arcane asses under the title of the Danza Macabre collection. Let’s feast our putrid peepers on what this set has to offer one by fright-filled one! Disc One brings us 1964’s The Monster of the Opera: This flick opens with a banger of a scene in which a vampire chases a young woman in a nightgown before trapping her behind an invisible wall and trying to dispatch her with a pitchfork! Flash forward and dynamic theater director Sandro (Marco Mariani) has moved his troupe of actors, dancers, and mimes into an abandoned theater despite being warned explicitly not to do so by the caretaker of the joltin’ joint, Achille (Alberto Archetti) by name, who witnessed the ghoulish goings-on mentioned up yonder! As the arsty and fartsy goes on, it becomes ever more obvious
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
Blazing Bit Games’ retro FPS Nightmare Reaper had a successful launch on Steam and now has found itself on console thanks to Feardemic! So what made this “Boomer Shooter” (as some of you so-called 90’s kids are calling it) great on PC? We’ll have to take a look! I want to thank both Blazing Bit Games and Feardemic for sending over a copy! The game follows a patient who is locked away in a sanitarium for unknown reasons to the player. The patient goes to sleep and is in a nightmarish world where she fights monsters. Now onto the game itself. Nightmare Reaper‘s controls will have to take some time to get used to for controllers as some of the buttons you are used to using for traditional uses like jumping and interacting are mapped out differently with these controls, so time to get used to them is required! The sound of Nightmare Reaper is pretty good and the soundtrack
Continue reading →
BooksGamingProductReviews
Thanks to popular shows like Stranger Things, tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons are becoming more popular with newer players and reigniting the passionate flame within old fans who were once made to give it up. But like a good RPG story, the adventure has to start somewhere. With many sites and stores dedicated to tabletop gaming supplies, where should a new adventurer go? This is where Misty Mountain Gaming comes in! I want to give a big thank you to Sophii and the rest of the awesome folks over at Misty Mountain for helping to make this review possible! Misty Mountain sent over the Mystery Sling Bag Bundle, the price may be shocking but it’s worth it if you want to start off your new gaming life or you want to improve it and wow your friends at the next session! you get a total of 35 dice that are randomly selected, three sets of acrylic dice, an all-metal
Continue reading →
MoviesReviewsSci-Fi
Junior astronomer Davey MacLean (Jimmy Hunt looking between 9 and 39 depending on the angle) is awakened one night by a thunderstorm only to witness a glowing green flying saucer land behind a large hill next to his house where it promptly sinks deep within the earth. The next morning David’s father, George (Leif Erickson in a performance that goes from lovable goof to violent, moody, secretive monster with shocking ease) heads out to investigate the hill, but comes back as a complete prickus, and soon David’s mother Mary (Hillary Brooke), his neighbor, the local constables, and more fall victim to the cosmic evil buried deep in the sand. Thankfully Dave has two erstwhile allies, Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter) and Dr. Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz… who insists on pronouncing “mutants” as “mewt-ants”), and these cats manage to call in the military (thanks to the magic of stock footage) which leads to a full-scale operation being launched against those menacing
Continue reading →
GamingHalloweenIndieProductReviews
I’m not alone when I say I’m not looking forward to summer’s approach and would rather have autumn again and enjoy the wonder and fun of Halloween. Saona Studios is here to scratch that Halloween itch with Death or Treat where you must save Halloween (or at least Hallowtown). Death or Treat follows a little ghost named Scary who runs a mobile candy shop called Ghost Mart. Business should be good in Hallowtown but larger corporations are stealing customers, forcing Scary to take a stand. Now onto the game itself! The controls for Death or Treat are pretty simple as this is a hack-and-slash kind of game with platforming so it’s pretty basic. The soundtrack is pretty good and fits the tone of the game as well as its art. Speaking of art, I really like the animation of the game’s cutscenes and gameplay, definitely can tell it’s hand-drawn, or at least colored in by hand, it flows quite smoothly
Continue reading →
GamingIndieProductReviews
Souls games are known for being tough, gritty, and dark. 505 Games and Point Blank Games have challenged the Souls game genre with Stray Blade, how does it stack up with some other Souls games? Stray Blade follows an adventurer named Farren who while on an adventure has now found themselves in an unfamiliar world he must explore with his otherworldly companion Boji while fighting off enemies that are pursuing them on their adventure. Now onto the game itself! The controls for Stray Blade are a touch confusing at first I’ll admit but having access to review the control scheme and having a tutorial helps. I don’t know if I just suck at my timing but I feel that the parry button is broken, no matter how much I time it I can’t parry but thankfully the dodge button works! Stray Blade‘s sound design will need some tweaking when you first play depending on where you have the sound coming
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