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Evan Peterson on Writing, Academia, and His New Video Game Drag Star!

Nicholas Yanes — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:00:06 +0000

Drag Star!" title="Evan Peterson on Writing, Academia, and His New Video Game Drag Star!" style="float:left;" />Evan J. Peterson is a Swiss Army Knife of writers. In addition to being the creator of what he describes as the ‘Evan-verse,’ he has published non-fiction, poems, short horror and science fiction stories, and… [more]

This Next Experiment and the Values of Fun: Toby Fox and Gaster’s Deltarune Part III

Matthew Kirshenblatt — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:00:21 +0000

Deltarune Part III" title="This Next Experiment and the Values of Fun: Toby Fox and Gaster’s Deltarune Part III" style="float:left;" />In our second article, I wrote about Undertale, the presence of W.D. Gaster in the game and its code, the collaborative dynamic between Toby Fox and his audience as well as the implications it had… [more]

Preliminaries in Undertale: Toby Fox and Gaster’s Deltarune Part II

Matthew Kirshenblatt — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 19:24:59 +0000

Deltarune Part II" title="Preliminaries in Undertale: Toby Fox and Gaster’s Deltarune Part II" style="float:left;" />Where we last left off, I wrote a general outline of how Toby Fox’s work in game hacking, music creation, and his participation in and moderation of EarthBound forums helped influence his development of Undertale,… [more]

EarthBound Dress Rehearsals and The Beginnings of Interaction: Toby Fox and Gaster’s Deltarune Part I

Matthew Kirshenblatt — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:29:17 +0000

Deltarune Part I" title="EarthBound Dress Rehearsals and The Beginnings of Interaction: Toby Fox and Gaster’s Deltarune Part I" style="float:left;" />It feels like everyone, and their mother too, has already been talking about the first chapter of Toby Fox’s new video game Deltarune, the spiritual sequel to the popular 2015 independent game Undertale. So many… [more]

Professors Kishonna Gray and David Leonard Discuss Video Game Studies and Their Latest Book Woke Gaming

Nicholas Yanes — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:34:03 +0000

Woke Gaming" title="Professors Kishonna Gray and David Leonard Discuss Video Game Studies and Their Latest Book Woke Gaming" style="float:left;" />Even though video games have only grown in popularity, scholarship on this medium has been lacking in quantity. As scholars of culture and mass media finally begin to deeply dive into the subject, we are… [more]

Sequart Releases A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe

Julian Darius — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:00:11 +0000

A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe" title="Sequart Releases A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe" style="float:left;" />Sequart is proud to announce the publication of A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe, edited by Rich Handley and Joseph F. Berenato. Almost as soon as there were Star Wars films, there were Star… [more]

Smorgasbord #61: Fist of Iron, Feet of Clay

Tom Shapira — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:00:53 +0000

Tom and Shawn call upon their inner chi to give Netflix’s Iron Fist a well-deserved beatdown; Paramount tries to solicit a Pro; Tom discovers that the pratfalls and faux pas of the comics industry don’t… [more]

The Demon With a Thousand Names and One in Toby Fox’s Undertale, Part 2

Matthew Kirshenblatt — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:00:34 +0000

Undertale, Part 2" title="The Demon With a Thousand Names and One in Toby Fox’s Undertale, Part 2" style="float:left;" />In Part I of The Demon With a Thousand Names and One in Toby Fox’s Undertale, we focused on some of the game’s background, its medium and genre tropes, and began the process of illustrating… [more]

The Demon With a Thousand Names and One in Toby Fox’s Undertale, Part 1

Matthew Kirshenblatt — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:00:20 +0000

Undertale, Part 1" title="The Demon With a Thousand Names and One in Toby Fox’s Undertale, Part 1" style="float:left;" />Sequart has “sequential art” as the general focus of both its articles and its studies. Sequential art, a term that was coined by Will Eisner and expanded on by other comics creators and theorists such… [more]

Overwatch: The Pleasures of Not Giving a Damn about the Story

Brian Cowlishaw — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 19:20:30 +0000

Overwatch, launched just a month ago, is a new MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) in which teams of six human-controlled players battle six-person teams controlled by humans or the computer, your choice. Each player chooses… [more]

Pixels and Why Video Game Films Never Succeed

Maria Karen — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 11:00:11 +0000

Pixels and Why Video Game Films Never Succeed" title="Pixels and Why Video Game Films Never Succeed" style="float:left;" />The release and instantaneous failure of Adam Sandler’s latest production Pixels shines light on one of Hollywood’s longtime pitfalls – movie adaptations of video games and their utter lack of success. While not a direct… [more]

Ernest Cline’s Armada: One Remove Too Many

Brian Cowlishaw — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:00:24 +0000

Armada: One Remove Too Many" title="Ernest Cline’s Armada: One Remove Too Many" style="float:left;" />At last, Ernest Cline, best-selling author of Ready Player One, has released his second novel, Armada. RPO was so fun to read, and so perfectly constructed, that its follow-up was bound to be disappointing. And… [more]

Play to Win: Nonplayer #2

Emmet O'Cuana — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:07:21 +0000

Nonplayer #2" title="Play to Win: Nonplayer #2" style="float:left;" />Some ten years ago I was heavily addicted to the much-missed MMO City of Heroes. My friend Mike and I would ‘meet’ most evenings in Paragon City, chat as we blitzed through missions and even… [more]

Bridging the Gap Between Comics and Video Games

Mike Greear — Sat, 11 May 2013 11:00:58 +0000

I don’t remember the last time I bought a video game. Full disclosure. I am not the biggest video game fan on the face of the Earth. My comic book nerdiness does not extend into… [more]

Diagram for Delinquents Update #27: I’m Interested in Some Comics

Robert A. Emmons, Jr. — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:37:38 +0000

I apologize that I didn’t make the Sunday update. I was away at a conference in Boston and didn’t arrive home until about 6PM on Sunday and just couldn’t bring it all together in time.… [more]

Arkham City Fights to Make Robin Relevant Again

Mike Greear — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:00:51 +0000

Arkham City Fights to Make Robin Relevant Again" title="Arkham City Fights to Make Robin Relevant Again" style="float:left;" />One of my favorite things to ponder when it comes to the realistic or quasi-realistic treatment of superheroes is the treatment of Robin, The Boy Wonder. For years it has been a struggle to reconcile… [more]

The Best Comics-Based Videogames Around

Henry Northmore — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:43:41 +0000

There have been comic book characters cropping up in video games for years, pretty much since the inception of the gaming console. And comic creators have been helping out the game industry for a while… [more]

Are Comics and Videogames Reading from the Same Page?

Henry Northmore — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:39:43 +0000

Bit of a tangent this time but part of my job as Clubs & Technology Editor here at The List is to review video games. And with the recent release of Rogue Trooper (another classic… [more]