Morrissey and his not-so-merry band of misfits could get a bit glum, and one wouldn’t think they’d fit with the candy-colored world of classic video games. One wouldn’t think. Good thing there’s artist B...

When old-timers talk about the halcyon days of space games, they mention series like X-Wing and Wing Commander. They also, in the same breath – and often before – mention Elite. The pioneering space trading and comb...

Tomorrow, the London Philharmonic will release their second album of video game music, creatively titled “The Greatest Video Game Music 2.” I really dug the first album, and so the folks working on the record asked ...

If you grew up in the 1970s or ’80s, chances are that your first introduction to satire came either from Mad magazine or Topps’ Wacky Packages card. Of the two, the latter was more of a gamble. When they were origin...

What if Michael Bay and Paul W.S. Anderson had a baby together,? I don’t know what it would look or act like, but I’m pretty sure Hollywood hired it to direct this movie. Jesus, Van Helsing had a quiet dignity compa...

I don’t really understand how Mattel can’t get the new Castle Grayskull playset sculpted — I thought they pretty much had the famed toy sculptors the Four Horsemen under contract or something — but IR...

Giant monsters have been around long before movies. The Book of Job has an extensive discussion of the Leviathan; the Greeks told stories of the terrible Typhon, whose hundred serpentine heads scraped the stars; and dragons wer...

The mad scientist is one of popular culture’s most oft-used tropes. Chances are that at some point or another your personal favorite nerdy obsession — be it a comic book, TV show or book series — has relied on...

Even I, a person who has never seen Simon & Simon a single time, got a kick out of this incredibly elaborate shot-for-shot remake of the opening credits. Created as a goof for Adult Swim, it stars Paul Rudd, Mad Men‘s...