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Crossovers happen in games all the time. Capcom fighting games have been at it for years, and SoulCalibur (opens in new tab) has taken the idea to ridiculous lengths (Kilik vs. Darth Vader, anyone?). But that’s not the stuff we’re talking about here. That stuff never approaches canon legitimacy. It’s …

Amidst endless videogame journalism controversies (opens in new tab) and “Fake Geek Girl” controversies (opens in new tab) , it’s easy to forget that Twitter’s just a bit of fun sometimes. We can’t imagine ever tiring of Damon Lindelof’s endless trolling of people who abuse him on Twitter, for example: …

A quick look at gaming’s increasingly cinematic AAA blockbusters makes it abundantly clear that mainstream games are trying harder to emulate movies all the time. But the thing is, they needn’t bother. Because as games become an ever more mainstream medium, films are increasingly taking cues from them. While the …

Join us as we chart the history of the Call of Duty series via the visual medium of Call of Duty box art, from 2003 to 2012. Along the way we will discover many fascinating things and make many artistic observations. You might learn something. You might not. But one …

“PS” is a perfect example of the sort of little character moments at which Doctor Who excels. Intended as a DVD extra, but not filmed due to time constraints, it’s an epilogue to “The Angels Take Manhattan”, written by Chris Chibnall and with a voice-over by Arthur Darvill. It’s a …

We know President Obama’s health care reforms weren’t very popular with the Republicans, but we’re not sure he suggesting that a vote for Mitt Romney was a vote for voluntary euthanasia the age of 30. But his impression of Box from Logan’s Run is uncanny… • More Attack Of The …

November is finally here, and it is expectedly the craziest month of the year for game releases. And that would be the case even if we didn’t have a brand new console coming out, thanks to huge debuts like Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, but come …

Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth is coming to the Nintendo Wii U. We’ve seen the superhero fighting title for the Kinect–working with the off-the-couch motion controls, but now we’ve had a chance to see how the game handles using the Wii U’s GamePad. Want to see Battle for Earth in …

Trick or treat! One of the reasons why we decided that fall was the best time of year is because it has Halloween, or in the world of the Sims, its known as Spooky Day. Like in real life, your virtual Sims have the ability to dress up in wacky …

Some game sequels are content to polish and improve the established core concepts of their predecessors. Some, however, go the extra mile and straight up embarrass the games that came before them. Such was the case of Assassin’s Creed II, which took the erratic pacing and repetition of the original …