Cosplay from MCM Birmingham Comic Con – March 2018
No edition of MCM Birmingham Comic Con would be complete without the vast array of costumes on show from the various cosplayers in attendance. Varying from accurate representations of much loved characters through to imaginative cross-overs, there was a wealth of work and creativity on show throughout. Here is a selection of just some of the amazing […]
Cosplay from MCM Birmingham Comic Con – November 2017
No edition of MCM Birmingham Comic Con would be complete without the vast array of costumes on show from the various cosplayers in attendance. Varying from accurate representations of much loved characters through to imaginative cross-overs, there was a wealth of work and creativity on show throughout. Here is a selection of just some of […]
Cosplay from SFW in the City
One of the highlights of Sci Fi Weekender in the City was the diverse costumes worn by the talented cosplayers there. The sheer breadth of cosplay ranged from faithful recreations of those worn on screen to imaginative re-envisioning of iconic characters. Here, in no particular order, is just a fraction of some of the fantastic […]
Pitch, Please! – Episode 7: Pac-Man
Welcome to Pitch, Please!, our weekly podcast in which a fistful of geeks get together to discuss their ideas for the next big thing. Come join us and listen to our terrible, awesome, possibly slanderous pitches for all manner of geeky TV shows and movies. This week… We make an absolute mess of pitching a […]
Cosplay from MCM Birmingham Comic Con
One of the highlights of the MCM Birmingham Comic Con is always the diverse costumes worn by the talented cosplayers that attend. The sheer breadth of costumes range from faithful recreations of those worn on screen to imaginative re-envisioning of iconic characters.
EGX 2016
Just when you think that EGX cannot possibly become any bigger, it proves you wrong. Whilst there were not any TIE-fighters from Star Wars like last year (instead we had a Lego version of Kylo Ren), we did have huge stands dominated by colossal images of robot dinosaurs (courtesy of Horizon: Zero Dawn). EGX certainly […]
Video Games Are Art Now – Get Used To It
Roger Ebert famously, in 2005, claimed that video games were and could never be art. I, along with many in those first generations who grew up with gaming as a core medium in our lives, vehemently disagreed and there were constant conversations on and offline on which games countered Ebert’s core claim. To many, it became […]
E3 2016: Our Favourite Moments
E3 has come and gone for yet another year, and let’s face it, we more than once boarded the hype train! We were absolutely wowed (looking at you, Sony!), intrigued, and on occasion, a little underwhelmed by some of the gaming industry’s latest announcements. Nevertheless, as the dust settles, its time to do a little […]
Dungeons 2 Review – Or “Embrace the Evil Within”
So often in video games, we, as the player, find ourselves placed in the role of the hero, striving to battle against the greater evil and save the wider world from its clutches…. but being good all the time can get boring, fast; if only you could be the villain? Well there have been several […]
Blues and Bullets, Episodes 1 & 2
Blues and Bullets is an episodic “visual novel”, in the same vein as games like The Wolf Among Us and Minecraft: Story Mode, to name a couple. In it, you play as famed real-life detective Eliot Ness in an alternate reality where Ness has left the police force after being unable to solve a collection of missing children […]
