Weekend Roundtable: Worst Videogame to Adapt into a Movie
Even though movies based on videogames have a terrible track record, Hollywood keeps trying to make them work. With ‘The Angry Birds Movie’, we’ve reached a phase where even games that may seem...
View Article‘Warcraft’ Review: World of Boredom
One of the big challenges of adapting videogames into movies is the need to act quickly before popularity fades. While ‘World of Warcraft’ still has plenty of brand name recognition, it’s far from the...
View ArticlePoll: ‘Pokemon Go’ or Pokemon No?
It’s amazing how the silliest things manage to catch on and take the world by storm. Nintendo’s mobile gaming sensation ‘Pokémon Go’ inspires such a level of obsession that it’s already been linked to...
View ArticleLet the Bloodbath Begin: ‘Slayaway Camp’ Game Review
Lovingly hailed as the most violent Sokoban-style sliding block puzzle game ever, Blue Wizard Digital’s “brutally cute” throwback to cult horror films is now available on Steam! From the product...
View Article‘Slayaway Camp: Santa’s Slay’ Mini Review + Giveaway!
It’s beginning to look a lot like… DEATH! The holiday-themed expansion for Blue Wizard Digital’s ‘Slayaway Camp’ has arrived from the North Pole and is now ready for download on Steam. If you’d like to...
View Article‘Assassin’s Creed’ Review: A Masterfully Murky Mess
They say that if at first you don’t succeed, you should try, try again. That seems to be Hollywood’s motto for videogame movies. There’s yet to be a great one, or even a particularly good one. Now we...
View Article‘Slayaway Camp’ Giveaway Results
Whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, we here at HDD hope you’re having a very happy Christmas Day. It’s about to get even better for two of our readers who entered the ‘Slayaway Camp’...
View ArticlePoll: Have You Bought a Nintendo Switch?
After failing to generate much excitement for the Wii U, Nintendo has higher hopes for its new Switch console, which was released amid much hype at the beginning of this month. Did you buy one? If so,...
View ArticlePoll: Did You Get a Nintendo NES Classic Edition?
The NES Classic Edition gaming console has been such a huge hit that Nintendo has struggled to produce enough units to meet demand. Naturally, Nintendo being Nintendo, rather than build on this...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Ninjas Ninjas Ninjas!
In the words of eminent philosopher Robert Matthew Van Winkle: “The power of the ninja is strong\ Fightin’ all crooks until they’re all out cold\ Go Ninja Go Ninja Go!\ Go Ninja Go Ninja Go!” Indeed,...
View Article‘Tomb Raider’ Review: Some Things Shouldn’t Be Dug Up
It’s puzzling to me that studios have recently invested so much into reboots of existing properties that weren’t all that great to begin with. (See: ‘Death Wish’). The execs can’t be so far removed...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Mecha Robot Mayhem
We’ve done Roundtables in the past about robots and A.I., so our focus this week narrows specifically to the mecha genre, in which human pilots operate robotic suits or vehicles. What are your...
View ArticleImpulse Purchase of the Week: The NES Classic Edition
I was in a Best Buy the other day shopping for something else when I spotted fresh stock of Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition gaming console on a shelf, marked at an attractive price. I’d passed this over...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Favorite Sci-Fi Comedies
The combination of science fiction and comedy can often be an uneasy blend. The Men in Black franchise had some success with it initially and has struggled through three sequels now to replicate the...
View ArticleBringing Old Game Consoles Back into Service
Lately, I feel like my home theater is moving backwards. Despite upgrading to a high-end 4k projector, I’ve also felt compelled to pull some very old equipment back into usage. First was a Laserdisc...
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