Entertainment Reviews

XCOM 2 has been very much on my radar since I saw it in motion at E3. I’ve watched hours of playthroughs and have heard a great deal of commentary on how the game is shaping up. But having spent over 100 hours with the original (including The Long

When the Crystal Dynamics team tackled Rise of the Tomb Raider they knew that they wanted to take the harrowing experience Lara endured in the previous title and build on it to transform her from survivor to the world-traveled tomb raider we all know and love. Serving as almost a

Dragons: Riders of the Berk Collector’s Edition adds to the story of viking dragon-riders from the popular film and television series. This comic series tells new stories, setting out to bring the characters into a new medium. It does that and then stops dead, with no apparent ambition to

I love little else like a good mystery, memorable characters, and a taste of foreign culture. Samurai gave me none of these things. The first four volumes of Titan Comic’s Samurai tell a contained story that is clearly meant as the first small arc in a sweeping epic. It

If there is a setting in Dungeons & Dragons that deserves its own book to showcase the amazing stories found therein, it has to be The Sword Coast. The Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale series of games, recently-released Sword Coast Legends, Neverwinter Nights, and its MMO counterpart Neverwinter are

Insight Editions has gotten to run with one of the largest flags in the industry the past few years, and this year is no different as they deliver The Art of Halo 5: Guardians to a throng of eager fans. If you read our Editor Travis Northup’s review of

Danganronpa’s story is one that should, in theory, lend itself to an animated adaptation. Even without the investigations and trials to partake in, the core of the story Spike Chunsoft tells is riveting, and one that could be emulated in an episodic series for those without the time to

We all wanted Japan, but Ubisoft wanted to make another trip to Europe for a pivotal event in modern history — the Industrial Revolution. In the period between 1760 and 1840, everything changed. It sounds hyperbolic, but it couldn’t be more true. The basis for manufacturing of goods moved from