Tag: Video games & comics

Video games and comic books were invented decades apart, but they seem like they were made for each other. There are plenty of decent video game adaptations of comics, including…

Your spaceship crashes on an alien planet after some guy with a crazy sword does some serious dirt to your engines. You survive, but so do the creatures your ship…

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Not many these days. Save the brief blip that was The Shadow movie (starring Alec Baldwin) in the 1990s, pulp…

This month saw the release of Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One, two profoundly different yet startlingly similar devices. At the start of the last console generation the PlayStation…

Not many people can say that they’ve influenced an entire section of the internet. Local cartoonist Allie Brosh is known for creating the “Alot” monster and “All the things!” memes,…

Device 6 is, by all accounts, a text adventure. It is also riveting, tense, creepy, hilarious and well worth your time. Device 6 is a mystery-thriller in which you play…

For years, Portland’s Top Shelf Productions has continued to publish unique autobiographical comics. Earlier this year, the Vanguard reviewed Jeffery Brown’s A Matter of Life and Jess Fink’s We Can…

If you had told me a few months ago that there was a game on my phone that could actually scare me, I would have laughed. The screen would be…

It’s about that time. The days are getting shorter. The sky is getting darker. The weather is getting colder. Just in time for Halloween, Dark Horse Comics has released Colder,…

The Inner World is a point-and-click adventure that attempts to blend an eccentric story and art style with the standard mechanics of the genre. While the two sometimes mix harmoniously,…

Star Wars might have the biggest expanded universe of any franchise. With so many books and video games, it’s tough to know where to start if you’ve just watched the…