In all of fiction, there is nothing better than the idea of mechanised steel. It’s an enduring concept, one that continues to find ground today and seeing as I’m in charge, I feel like celebrating my love for pop culture’s greatest triumph. Also it’s my list, and if you feel like being pedantic and telling me that entry X isn’t “technically a giant robot”, then you can kiss my Striker Eureka.
Sentinels! Not just the name of an ill-fated TV series that ran for way too long, but also the title of one of the most persistent X-Men foes ever created. Massive, lumbering and wielding too much technology in order to be properly recreated within the budget of the first several X-Men movies, the mutant massacring robots finally made a proper …
While Batman vs Superman and The Avengers: Age of Ultron may have won the Comic-Con 2013 headline battle, when it came to sheer value for money geekage, Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past couldn’t be beat. Not only did we have the panel with that insanely big cast of fan favourite actors, but out of all the big titles there (with the …
And San Diego Comic-Con International 2013 is officially a go! And what better way to kick off this most geekiest of weekends, than comic book robots?! Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to be one the major panels at Comic-Con tomorrow, and so in building up to that, the much anticipated sequel has activated its marketing campaign powers X-Gene …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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