As we know, movie studios love to take liberties with our comic book stories in order to make them palatable. We’ve seen the hack job they did with the X-Men, we’ve laughed at the Fantastic Four, and we have seen the worst of the worst in Daredevil and Elektra. To say that fans were fed up with the failures is an understatement and as gamers we know all too well what it means to see a story you love get changed into ruin on... 

As a Tekken player and fan, I have always found the Mishima family to be the one downside to an otherwise nice mix of fighters with varied backgrounds. Due to my thoughts on this, you can see why the roles they played in Tekken: Blood Vengeance were the only downside for me to an otherwise delightful CGI movie.  The story of Tekken: Blood Vengeance is of a student Shin Kamiya who is used in an experiment along with other teens... 

In the realm of Ferelden outside of the walls of Kirkwall and around the time of the champion Hawke, there is an elven assassin by the name of Tallis. This first episode of Dragon Age: Redemption gives us a glimpse of the crimson haired killer as we learn that she works for the Qunari, does not like to be called “knife ears” and has been relegated to kitchen duty for failing a prior mission. This new mission given to... 

Conan The Barbarian had brilliant choreography, excellent production, and a tale that can match the comic books that I grew up reading. It was pleasantly surprising and I anticipate purchasing and owning it on Blu-ray to sit alongside the 1984 version as soon as It leaves the theater. Jason Momoa was questionable at first in portraying a character that had been locked in as a Schwarzenegger classic. Watching this version with... 

You don’t need sight beyond sight to know that this show kicks ass, just take my word for it. After finding out there was going to be a revamp of the old cartoon I came to grow and love as a kid, I thought it was going to suck, and that my fond childhood memories would be destroyed. Boy was I wrong. Not only is the new iteration good, it’s better than the original, with a better story, amazing art direction, incredible... 

Forget that other trilogy (with the exception of the fabulous second one) X-Men: First Class has placed itself as the de facto live action translation of the comic book series that we all know of. This may as well had been called X-Men: Rise of Magneto because Erik Lehsnerr aka Magneto (Michael Fassbender) not only steals the show, he dominates it and makes it his. Every shot involving this character was intense. You feel the... 

With four super hero movies being released this year and The Avengers looming on the horizon, there seems to be no shortage of super hero flicks.  That’s just fine if you’re a big nerd like the rest of us.  And being a big nerd you don’t need your time wasted with a movie synopsis so I’ll skip to why I liked this movie so much. Rainn Wilson does a phenomenal job as Super’s down trodden hero.  It’s hard not... 

I bet that after today there will be a ton of people claiming “I was always a Thor fan, you don’t know what you’re talking about”. Sure dude (side-eye), I get that it’s the cool thing to claim history with new hotness, and Thor is the newest and hottest addition to the Super Hero adaptations to the big screen. Natalie Portman was an absolute cutie, I know, I know she always is but trust me she brings... 

The King of Fighters is another one of these video game movies where the writers lazily use the “other world” excuse to bring us the environments and worlds that we recall from the video game. In KOF (King of Fighters) the participants in the tournament are given ear pieces which can teleport them to another dimension to fight within an arena of the challenger’s choosing (think stage select before a match). While on the surface... 

If you’re a fighting game enthusiast and a fan of anime I highly recommend the Queen’s Blade anime series.  The premise of Queen’s Blade is reminiscent of every fighting game plot created in the 1990’s – Fighters assemble from across the globe to enter some tournament.  In this case it’s the Queen’s Blade tournament which is held every 4 years to determine a new Queen.  Those not entering the tournament can...