This one is a lost gem. I believe I have made my extremely low opinion of the live-action puzzle games from the 1990s crystal clear.  Sure, they made money for their companies, (briefly), but the truth is they were bad. The limitations of green screen studios, plus several hundred-page scripts, combined with the intrinsic problem of multiple dialog trees ensured terrible performances from the actors.  And not all of these actors were the result of a community theater casting round-up.  Ripper from Take-Two starred Christopher Walken, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies ..read more

They don’t make boxes like that anymore REPOST: “I dreamt of blood upon the shore, of eyes that spoke of sin. the lake was smooth and deep and black, as was her scented skin…” -Gabriel Knight Cliche: defined as “an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.” Dirty little secret of the writing business. Cliche is our bread and butter.  It serves a vitally important pu ..read more

Arizona native and pulp fiction addict Razorfist new comic just had its trailer drop. I’ll be reviewing it as soon as I feel better. The post Ghosts of Bad Lands Trailer Drop appeared first on Arkhaven Site ..read more

REPOST: I’m going to be laid up for a while which means I’m in rerun mode. Enjoy these blasts from the past. Or don’t, because either way this is what you’re getting. Today the monsters of PC gaming are well known to all Steam, EA, Sony, and biggest fish in any pond Microsoft. Huge multi-billion dollar corporations chugging out carefully crafted and polished money extraction software. Modern games require the kind of budget that epic blockbusters are made of. Quora estimated that Hogwarts cost about $165 million to develop. Modern PC gaming is a mega-industry of unearthly proportions with ann ..read more

Most sequels follow in the footsteps of a massively successful first movie. This film on the other hand was born from the ashes of Star Trek the Motion Picture.  While STMP isn’t the best movie in the series, it is pretty far from the worst.  If you have a chance to see Robert Wise’s Director’s Cut, it’s definitely worth a look. It was however horrifically expensive to make.  It cost $35 million and back in 1979 that was a studio-breaking amount of money. Michael Eisner hated spending money on the best of days and $35 large nearly gave him a heart ..read more

2024 is going to be called the Year of the Unadaptable Movie. Although this one is a TV show. The Fallout franchise definitely falls in this category.  Fallout was sort of obsolete when it first came out. I don’t mean the semi-turned-based role-playing thing, Fallout started life as a tribute band version of Wasteland so the interface was kind of a necessity. Besides, that’s how mid-90s computer RPGs worked. That was what Black Isle did best, this was the studio that made Baldur’s Gate.  No, I’m talking about the politics that inspired it. The Cold War had ended 3 years before the g ..read more

Don’t be fooled by this poster The Seventies were horrible in every way imaginable.  From the musical incompetence of Wall of Sound to the solipsistic non-philosophy of Easy Rider, to your older sister’s boyfriend’s creepy-ass custom van with the shag carpeting that smelled…funny. There was nothing that wasn’t vomitable.  Even the clothing and food were wrong. Polyester ravaged the land for an entire decade, (Hell, your Dad’s leisure suit was packed with the stuff).  As for the kitchen it was ruled by Ronco garbage that made everyday tasks slightly worse. Even your Mom’s orange ..read more

I’ll have to start this post with the disclaimer that Arktoons is a competitor of WEBToons.com. My wife just finished with her newest K-drama, Marry My Husband.  The plot is that all men are garbage unless they are handsome and rich, however, the important part is that this very popular TV show started life on WEBToons. It’s far from the only one out there. There are now better than 20 of the things out in the wild and that number isn’t going to go down any time soon.  Hollywood is starting to jump on the bandwagon, contracts have been signed and projects put into development. Webto ..read more

From Vanity Fair: “The term woke is thrown around rather liberally,” Iger said. “I think a lot of people don’t really understand what it means.” I do, Bob! I do! Shall I tell you what it means? Given that you’ve a got a rich Boomers grasp of the social issues surrounding it, you probably do need some help. It seems like the least I could do after all the low hanging fruit you’ve fed me for years.   Now to be clear, I do realize you are just being intellectually lazy and dishonest but your implied question deserves an answer. Definition: Woke is a religion of rigid world perspective ..read more

One of my earliest memories is the landing of Apollo 11.  My parents woke me up for it and dragged me downstairs so that I could wobble bleary-eyed on my father’s lap as Eagle came down to rest at Tranquility Base.  I couldn’t make out what Armstrong said.  The interference was bad that morning. But even at that age, I knew that I had just watched something that was supposed to be important.  Because everyone kept telling me it was.    Apollo 11 was the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria all rolled into one.  Armstrong was the new Columbus (For the be ..read more