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Wednesday 31 January 2018

JLA/Doom Patrol Special #1

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On a very basic level, JLA/Doom Patrol unfolds like most superhero crossovers do. Two teams butt heads and battle each other for a bit before uniting in order to confront a common enemy. But given that the Young Animal line has built a reputation for highlighting the weird, mind-bending corners of the DCU, there's plenty of room to add flavor to that familiar formula. The result is a wacky team-up that captures the best qualities of Young Animal while being somewhat more approachable for readers who crave traditional superheroics.

The gist of this crossover is that an inter-dimensional corporation seeks to profit on the concept of superheroes. To do so, they've created Milkman Man, an all-American Superman analogue who furthers their goal of ushering in a safe, homogenized existence where everyone worships at the altar of their corporate oppressors. On one hand, that's an excuse for the Doom Patrol to trade punches with the milk-addled Justice League. But on the other, the premise opens the door for a thoughtful, if very bizarre, examination of the power of superheroes and and the tenuous divide between reality and fiction. As much as co-writer Gerard Way tends to draw inspiration from the work of Grant Morrison, this issue in particular reads like a love letter to Morrison's big ideas, even as it piles on more craziness and meta-humor for good measure.

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The X-Files' Twists and Turns Get Emotional

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"Ghouli," written and directed by X-Files vet James Wong, was quite the journey of discovery. One storyline hiccup aside, this was a solid, unexpectedly emotional adventure that constantly morphed, like William himself, throughout its duration.

"Ghouli" opened like it was a monster/case-of-the-week installment, but then quickly transformed into a story that was more tethered to the main mythology arc by bringing in Scully's presumed psychic connection to her long lost son. From there, it appeared as though we'd be watching a story that didn't sync up with the show's spine completely, but yet contained enough shared elements so as to conjure up some pretty heavy feelings in our heroes - particularly Dana.

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EA Sports UFC 3 Review: Not Yet a Knockout, But The Best UFC Yet

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The task of emulating the complexity of Mixed Martial Arts in video game form is not an easy one, and for the most part, the first two EA Sports UFC games have done a fairly admirable job of it. While it still has some substantial holes to fill in, UFC 3 is certainly the best game yet in the series, thanks to its fantastic overhaul of the striking system and the much improved, goal-oriented career mode. Its best moments, it’s a combat sports game that truly captures the excitement and depth of an MMA fight. However, the sleazy, microtransaction-infested Ultimate Team mode casts a dark shadow over it.

UFC 3’s biggest change to its usually exciting fights is the complete reworking of its striking system. Previous games adopted a Fight Night-style approach of using parries and counters, which always felt a bit out of place in an MMA fight. In UFC 3 there are no parries, but that doesn’t mean there are no counters. You can now freely sway with the right stick to dodge and duck under punches and throw any punch or kick while moving – a combination that leads to a dynamic striking system that feels much closer to how actual fights in the UFC play out.

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The Flash Annual #1 Review

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The Flash Annual #1 is a real case of good news, bad news for readers. The good news is that it expertly sets the stage for "Flash War," one of Joshua Williamson's most promising Flash storylines to date. The bad news is that readers will have to wait months to see that story resume in the pages of the monthly series. Regardless, there's never been a better time to be reading this series.

Even if this weren't the start of a major Flash epic, the fact that this annual puts the spotlight on the original Wally West would be reason enough to give it a look. We've seen too little of Wally 1.0 in this book since he was first pulled out of the Speed Force by Barry. But at long last, Williamson delves headlong into Wally's dilemma as a refugee of the pre-Flashpoint DCU. Apart from Barry and the Titans, no one remembers this Wally or the relationships they once shared. Within a handful of pages, Williamson had me wondering why DC hasn't bothered to give Wally his own book yet. There's clearly more than enough meat there.

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Corsair K55 RGB Gaming Keyboard Review

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We all know mechanical keyboards are generally considered the best for gaming, but the loud clicking and jaw-dropping price of most models aren't for everyone. With that in mind we're going to be taking a look at some quieter and more affordable membrane gaming keyboards, such as the new Corsair K55 (See it on Amazon) / (See it on Amazon UK). It shares a lot of the design cues and features from its more expensive stablemates, but with quiet membrane switches and a more affordable price tag at just $50.

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Star Wars: DJ - Most Wanted #1 Review

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Warning: this review contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi!

The biggest drawback with the current crop of Star Wars novels and comics, compared to the Expanded Universe days, is that these stories have far less freedom in which to operate. The days where where you could resurrect Emperor Palpatine in a comic or kill off Chewbacca in a novel are well behind us. That's the trade-off to having a new, Disney-sanctioned universe where every new story has its carefully chosen place in the larger scheme of things. Nowhere has this problem been felt more than with Marvel's meager offering of comics set in the post-Return of the Jedi era. It too often feels like creators are being constrained by Lucasfilm and prevented from venturing away from a very narrow path. Star Wars: The Last Jedi - DJ - Most Wanted #1 is no exception, sadly.

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Dark Nights: Metal #5 Review

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Dark Nights: Metal has generally been one of those comics that bites off more than it can chew, which is hardly the worst quality to have. But even with the Dark Days preludes and the various tie-ins, the main series cries out for another couple issues in which to really breathe and savor all its big developments. The good news is that the story has reached the point where the setup phase is done and the ball can start rolling downhill. Metal #5 offers a thrilling ride that really makes the most of this crossover's heavy metal trappings.

This issue sees the Justice League scattered across the multiverse as each faction plays its part in halting Earth's descent into the Dark Multiverse and the rise of Barbatos' armies. The opening page does a terrific job of setting the tone, striving to be equal parts over-the-top and foreboding. And fro there, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo spin a nonstop tale of heroes fighting against impossible odds and keeping the fire of hope burning.

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Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey #5 Review

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As an X-Men fan, I'm used to feeling disappointment, but that hasn't done much to ease the sting of Phoenix Resurrection. This miniseries takes a development fans have been waiting for for nearly 15 years and fails to capitalize on on that excitement and anticipation. Issue #5 at least succeeds in making up for lost time, but it's still a case of too little, too late in the end.

Phoenix Resurrection #5 only further supports the argument that this book has too many extraneous characters. The vast majority of the X-Men are mere background players in the finale, with only Old Man Logan, Young Teen Cyclops and Jean herself receiving any real attention. One of the big failings with this series has been its reluctance to really dig into those close personal ties Jean has with her fellow X-Men. It robs the story of its significance and makes it feel like just another Phoenix storyline.

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Tuesday 30 January 2018

The Flash: "Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash" Review

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The Arrowverse is really leaning hard on the '80s movie parodies this year. A few months back, Legends of Tomorrow delivered a terrific parody of E.T: The Extra Terrestrial with "Phone Home." Now The Flash is getting in on that action with "Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash," an episode whose inspiration should be pretty obvious. And while this episode never reached the height of "Phone Home," it did recapture some of the magic that's too often been missing in Season 4.

I was a little hesitant on the idea of a whole episode centered around Cisco and Ralph being shrunk down into pocket-sized superhero form. One of the most fundamental problems with this season has been the way many episodes prioritize wacky, lighthearted humor at the expense of everything else. This seemed liked a recipe for more of the same. Not to mention that a storyline involving shrunken Team Flash members doesn't seem particularly relevant to the larger Clifford DeVoe conflict.

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Gorogoa Review

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I’ve never played a puzzle game quite like Gorogoa. It’s quiet and reflective: four drag-and-droppable panels act as small windows into a beautiful and dreamlike hand-drawn universe. But as you scroll, stack, layer, and zoom in or out of each scene, you get the feeling that the world inside each box is too vast and magical to be contained. Even the most static scenes burst with life, and when rearranged create new dynamics that reveal a fascinating dual nature (mysterious, sad, and even a little frightening) as panels merge together in exciting and satisfying ways. This fleeting tale takes about one to two hours to complete, but its absorbing and ambiguous story — an elegant exploration of spirituality in its most beautiful and destructive forms — will stay with you for a long time after.

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Shadow of the Colossus For PS4 Review: Still One of The Best PlayStation Games EVer

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Shadow of the Colossus for PlayStation 4 is a stunning return to the classic that first wowed us on the PlayStation 2 in 2005. With completely redone art and spectacular lighting, it expertly captures the original’s unique beauty, awe-inspiring scope, and absolutely heartbreaking story while simultaneously fixing a handful of imperfections. The result is not only an incredible remaster, but one of the best and most beautiful games the PS4 has to offer.

Part of Shadow of the Colossus’ enduring legacy is in its relatively simplistic design. You explore the vast, gorgeous world in search of 16 unique, terrifying, and awe-inspiring beasts. These range from humanoid giants to airborne birds and massive underwater hydras. Though it’s never actually explained, your motivation is clear: slay them in order to restore life to a comatose woman who is clearly important to you. But while this premise is simple, the act of embarking on this six to eight-hour quest is remarkable.

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Monday 29 January 2018

Dragon Ball Super 125 Review

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With Dyspo knocked out, it falls to Toppo to battle our heroes from Universe 7. While we’ve already seen lots of Toppo before, the amazing interactions that he has with Frieza, along with his epic, drawn-out battle with Android 17, make this a thrilling episode and leaves me excited for the conclusion.

It’s no surprise that everytime Frieza is on screen, something awesome happens. Episode 125 takes Frieza’s arc to its natural conclusion as we see him be his cocky, boisterous self now that he’s happily eliminated Dyspo and Gohan in one blast. Wisely then, Super immediately throws him against a foe who utterly crushes him, as God of Destruction Toppo wastes no time putting Frieza in his place not once, but twice. Episode 125 wasn’t content to just physically beat him, though, and it’s the breaking of Frieza’s psyche that made things truly unique. In many ways, Frieza’s defeat mirrored his original one at the hands of Goku on Namek, and it’s interesting to see after all the changes he’s gone through, at his core, Frieza is still the terrible villain we know him to be.

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Sunday 28 January 2018

Star Trek: Discovery Review

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Wow. Star Trek: Discovery has spent this whole second half of the season so far dropping crazy reveals, from the arrival in the Mirror Universe to Voq/Tyler to Mirror Lorca. And while those plot turns were telegraphed in advance and crowd-sourced to varying degrees, I doubt anybody saw this episode’s insanity coming as Lorca was killed off in spectacular and pretty definitive fashion and the crew escaped the Mirror U… only to be flung into a future where the Klingons have won the war!

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Friday 26 January 2018

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: "Best Laid Plans" Review

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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD worked to simplify and streamline its convoluted time-travel story this week, with "Best Laid Plans" - but not by much.

The biggest stride here was the full-on acknowledgment, by Fitz, that the team was in a time-loop. That they were destined to travel a certain path that constantly pushed them ahead through time and then back through time. They're brought to the future to be told how, basically, they inadvertently destroyed the world - while trying to save it (from aliens pursuers that they bring back with them from the future, probably). They then, forever and always, figure out a way to go back and...do the thing where they inadvertently destroy the world.

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Viewsonic VP3881 Ultra-wide Monitor Review

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A few years ago, the CES trade show was awash with the next big thing: Curved Displays. The theory behind them being that the curve fills more of your periphery and is therefore more immersive. The curve also focuses the viewing sweet spot to a single seat right in front of it, making it perfect for a monitor sitting on your desk.

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Altered Carbon: Season 1 Review

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This is a SPOILER-FREE review of Netflix's Altered Carbon: Season 1. 

Netflix’s Altered Carbon (dropping on February 2nd), gets almost everything right. It’s a cyberpunk fantasyland that checks off all the standard items on your sci-fi shopping list: flying cars, cool guns that make heads explode, and no shortage of genetically modified strippers. Rest assured, if you find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of futuristic jargon being thrown at you in the first installment, by Episode 3 words like stacks, meths, and sleeves will become second-nature.

The show takes place in a world where technology has rendered death a thing of the past. When you die, your consciousness can be transferred into a different body, or “resleeved,” making eternal life possible. But even immortality can’t completely change human nature, as demonstrated by the Meths -- the wealthy ruling class who use their money to stay young and beautiful forever. These are the kind of people who enjoy watching the less fortunate slaughter each other: Instead of Monday Night Football, there’s zero-g cage fighting.

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Thursday 25 January 2018

Subnautica Review

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There are certain moments in my gaming past I’d love to somehow wipe from my brain just so I could experience them again, fresh and unspoiled. Plunging into the sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrifying, sometimes disorienting aquatic world of Subnautica for the first time is one of those moments. Not since Minecraft have I fallen so easily in love with an open-world survival craft-em-up, and in a lot of ways, including the gripping story, developer Unknown Worlds has done even better.

Subnautica is gripping from the very first moments, as you’re ejected from a disintegrating starship onto a watery alien world. Beyond the relative safety of your life pod, an expansive, diverse range of aquatic biomes brimming with awe and personality awaits. From the shallow, murky kelp forests to the surreal, alien shark-infested expanse of the underwater islands, the surprises never seemed to cease as I pushed to explore further and deeper. Along the way, I discovered the foreboding, Ridley Scott-esque wreck of the ship that brought you here to explore… and a couple other surprising detours I don’t want to spoil.

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A Futile and Stupid Gesture Review

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It’s difficult to think of a decade more influential to comedy and pop culture than the 1970s, when some of the greatest stand-up comedians and television personalities were first introduced to the world, and shows like Saturday Night Live signaled a seismic shift in the way people could consume sketch comedy. At the beginning of all of that, too, was National Lampoon, co-created by Doug Kenney, Henry Beard, and Robert Hoffman as a spin-off to the Harvard Lampoon.

It was through the Lampoon magazine, stage show, and radio show, that Kenney and Beard brought the world some of the very first material from future comedy giants like Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, John Hughes, Chris Miller, and more. Of course, National Lampoon’s influence and work didn’t stop there either, with several of the team members going on to write and produce some of the most beloved and successful comedy movies of all time, like Animal House and Caddyshack.

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Samsung CHG90 QLED Gaming Monitor Review

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Ultrawide monitors have become quite popular over the past year or so, and now Samsung is one-upping them all with the massive CHG90 (See it on Amazon); a 49-inch Quantum Dot monitor with HDR, 144Hz refresh rate, FreeSync 2, and a supremely weird 32:9 aspect ratio. Though the CHG90 stands alone by virtue of its daunting dimensions, is it worth its whopping $1,300 price tag? I spent some time with Samsung’s ultra-wide behemoth to find out.

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Celeste Review

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Occasionally, while playing Celeste, I’d get light-headed because I’d focus so hard on a sequence of jumps that demanded precise timing and perfect button presses that I’d forget oxygen was a thing my body needed. Trying and failing and trying again, getting a little closer each time, I let the beautiful art and adaptive music of the titular Celeste Mountain - alongside the passionate, relatable story told there - completely whisk me away.

Despite appearing at first to be yet another retro pixel-art 2D platformer, Celeste is surprising in so many different ways. From the moment I took my first jump, I fell in love with the satisfying way its protagonist, Madeline, feels to control; soon after I fell just as hard for the charming world she inhabits. But Celeste also caught me off guard with a relevant and emotional story about the pressures of modern life. What’s remarkable is that the story isn’t told in the background or overlaid on top of the action with constant interruption, but seamlessly and thoughtfully blended into the level design using both subtle themes and overt conversations. That’s especially astonishing in a genre not known as a vehicle for such delicate messages.

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Monster Hunter: World Review

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Game subtitles so rarely tell us anything about what’s inside the box. How can warfare be infinite, who was actually doing the reckoning in Kingdoms of Amalur, and what the hell is a ‘Breath of the Wild’ anyway? It’s almost a shock, then, to discover how perfectly “World” sums up Capcom’s achievements with the newest Monster Hunter.

Its hunting grounds feel expansive, each a separate ecosystem that would tick along nicely by itself without your involvement. It presents a near-overwhelming world of possibilities for customisation and specialisation. Most importantly, it’s somewhere in which you could end up spending so much time you might as well be living there.

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Wednesday 24 January 2018

Vikings Midseason Finale Review

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Firstly, anyone else a little surprised at how much, or even how much more, they like Vikings without Ragnar? Or is it just me?

"Moments of Vision," Vikings' Season 5 midseason finale, gave us another huge battle, amidst a season already full of big violent set pieces (from the two giant scenes of York carnage to the war a few weeks back), but presented it to us in a different package. Mixing the fighting scenes with some pre-battle moments, contemplative and tender scenes between characters before they set out to (possibly) die, this episode managed to take on an air of suspense that previous chapters didn't/couldn't. With everyone expecting to fall, and ready to go out swinging, the question wasn't "Will someone die?" it was "Who will die?"

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Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey #4 Review

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Theoretically, the return of Jean Grey should be a huge deal. This is a character who's been dead for an eternity by comic book standards, and one who is beloved by X-Men fans the world over. Yet the greatest failing of Phoenix Resurrection is that it doesn't make her return feel like the momentous event it should be. It's simply one more underwhelming event comic in a franchise that seems to offer nothing but lately.

The best that can be said for issue #4 is that the X-Men are no longer wasting time traveling the globe and trying to solve a mystery to which readers already have the answer. Our heroes have finally figured out Jean is returning, and they've tracked her down to the deserts of New Mexico. But even with the endgame staring them in the face, the X-Men are annoyingly slow to get the ball rolling. Too much of this issue involves characters standing around an either cracking jokes and laying down exposition. Once again, I find myself wishing that Matthew Rosenberg had kept his cast trimmed down to a small handful of characters with close personal ties to Jean, rather than inserting basically every active X-Man into the mix.

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The X-Files: "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" Review

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"I'm Fox freakin' Mulder, you punks!" 

Perhaps one of the reasons that X-Files' modern-era mythology episodes don't land well (aside from them also being a turgid mess) is that the show, now decades removed from its heyday, works best when it's lovingly skewering itself and presenting us with parody.

Season 10's "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," was arguably (though I have a fairly strong argument) the best chapter of that 2016 run, and a big part of its success rested with the stars, their chemistry, and how much fun it seemed like they were having cutting loose, free from the usual bump-in-the-night dourness. As we've witnessed with latter day X-Files, there are definitely moments where it feels like Duchovny and Anderson "show up" more than others. Such was the case, this year, with "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" - an outrageously funny, outside-looking-in chapter that explored/skewered the phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect (or is it the Mengele Effect? or am having a Mengele Effect about the Mandela Effect?)

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Legion #1 Review

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Legion is a convoluted mind-bender of a character, something the new TV series has captured pretty perfectly in its first season. This new miniseries reads like something Marvel probably should have put out 18 months ago before the TV series debuted - a clean, easy gateway into David Haller's world. Legion #1 isn't as weird or ambitious as it could be, but it does a decent job of conveying the appeal of this character.

Where or how this series is supposed to fit into larger X-Men continuity is unclear. Last time we saw David at the end of Legacy, he had written himself out of existence. It's best treated as its own, standalone tale. Writer Peter Milligan and artist Wilfredo Torres ignore the X-Men and David's Xavier family ties in favor of crafting a lean, relatively straightforward story about David's many alternate personalities threatened by the rise of an all-powerful, domineering new personality. The premise isn't so different from Si Spurrier and Tan Eng Huat's first X-Men Legacy arc, though Milligan and Torres spend far less time inside the psychedelic landscape that is David's mind.

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Love and Saucers Review

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David Huggins, 72, is an ordinary man. He lives in Hoboken, works one day a week at a local deli, and is known by those in his neighborhood as an affable and approachable fellow with an easy smile. He loves science fiction movies and has, over the course of many years, amassed an enormous collection of VHS tapes of all his favorites. He's especially fond of The Day the Earth Stood Still. He's divorced, a family man, and a talented painter, having been inspired by 1860s Impressionism. He also believes that he lost his virginity to an alien woman named Crescent, and that he has received over 100 visitations by Greys and other alien creatures over the course of his life. The subject of his paintings is almost entirely his abduction experiences.

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Doomsday Clock #3 Review

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Like many people, I didn't discover Watchmen until well after the series was completed and available in collected form. One of the appeals with Doomsday Clock is getting the opportunity to experience what it must have been like back in 1986 as the original series slowly played out. Like Watchmen, Doomsday Clock is a very dense, novelistic story that rewards careful reading and rereading. The monthly format is a novelty, but I'm growing more and more convinced that it's not the ideal way to experience this story. Especially not now that the series is switching to a bimonthly schedule.

If you're the sort of reader who approaches books from a "What happens next?" mentality, Doomsday Clock isn't necessarily the most rewarding of books. In some ways, this sequel is even more methodical and slow-paced than the original. With issue #3, the series still has yet to answer some fairly basic questions about the plot or fully introduce several key players. This issue may prove especially frustrating because so much of the script is devoted to juxtaposing a movie broadcast alongside the actions of characters like Rorschach and Batman. Doomsday Clock is not a comic in a hurry to get where it's going.

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Asus ROG Swift PG348Q Curved Gaming Monitor Review

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Despite varying degrees of compatibility with games, ultra-wide monitors appear to be here to stay. And why not? They take up a ton of space on your desktop, but the immersion you’ll feel while playing a supported first-person shooter on a big, curved screen is a wholly unique experience. Asus's 34-inch flagship model, the PG348Q (See it on Amazon) / (See it on Amazon UK) features G-Sync support, a refresh rate up to 100Hz, and 3440 x 1440 resolution. So there’s a lot to love about the PG348Q. Let's get into it:

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Tuesday 23 January 2018

Black Lightning: "LaWanda: The Book of Hope" Review

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Full SPOILERS follow for Black Lightning: “Lawanda: The Book of Hope.”

Black Lightning continues its forward momentum by exploring the tragic story of LaWanda White (Tracey Bonner) and her quest to save her daughter from The One Hundred. The series feels relevant, by echoing the harsh truth that some communities don’t feel like the police have their best interests in mind. In this episode, that mistrust is fully realized with the bitter reveal that Tobias Whale controls the local law enforcement.

The main struggle in Black Lightning, so far, is what do you do when the system lets you down? For Jefferson, that means putting his family at risk, which adds another layer of complexity to the already richly written story. It’s not just the risk of physical harm, but also the mental stressors of not being able to win back his ex-wife, Lynn (Christine Adams).

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Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Laptop Review

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Dell’s Inspiron gaming laptop lineup has long offered a decent gaming experience at an affordable price. However, since Dell owns Alienware it's always careful not to step on its alien feet, and thus nearly all of the off-the-shelf Inspiron 15 Gaming laptops sport a mid-range spec sheet.

The newest version of the Inspiron 15 7000 (See it on Dell.com) / (See it on Currys PC World UK) adopts a few upgrades over the previous version, and the biggest one is that the GPU has been upgraded from a low-end Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti to a GTX 1060. Other small changes include the move to an IPS panel, a slight reduction in size, and the addition of a fingerprint reader.

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Dragon Ball Super Episode 124 Review

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Just as things are heating up between Jiren, Goku and Vegeta, Super makes a hard pivot and instead focuses on Gohan, Frieza and Dyspo. While taking the time to highlight the remaining fighters is a great idea, the execution left much to be desired. By the end, Gohan, a proven fighter, ended up removed from combat in a less than interesting way.

Frieza and Dyspo are interesting in their own right, so seeing them paired up and battling made for quite an entertaining episode. Although the pace of combat was slower due to Frieza’s talkative nature, it worked well, particularly when Frieza tried to bargain with the Universe 11 warrior. Dyspo was an excellent counter. His no-nonsense, fast-paced battle tactics worked well here, and his foresight to see through the ploys of Frieza helped set him apart from the many others who have fallen victim to Frieza’s devious tactics.

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The Alienist Premiere Review: "The Boy on the Bridge"

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This is a spoiler-free review of The Alienist episode 1: "The Boy on the Bridge."

The Alienist has been a long time coming -- maybe that's why it feels so dated. Based on the Caleb Carr bestseller released in 1994, this period murder mystery was first intended for a film adaptation (the rights were snapped up before it was even published), languishing in development hell for more than two decades before TNT finally succeeded in bringing it to the small screen.

Back in the '90s, it's easy to imagine how Carr's macabre yarn might've pushed boundaries, melding the psychological interrogation of Silence of the Lambs with the operatic atmosphere of Bram Stoker's Dracula -- but The Alienist arrives in a very different pop culture landscape, following in the footsteps of bloody period dramas like Peaky Blinders, Boardwalk Empire, and Penny Dreadful, not to mention the engrossing crime thrillers that have reinvigorated the genre over the past five years: Hannibal, Mindhunter, and Season 1 of True Detective (which was directed by Cary Fukunaga, who serves as one of the executive producers here).

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Monday 22 January 2018

Supergirl: "Fort Rozz" Review

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As I said last week, the biggest strength with Supergirl: Season 3 is the show’s increased emphasis on crafting nuanced, three-dimensional villains. For the most part, that process has centered around the season’s big baddie, Reign, while lesser villains like Morgan Edge still fall victim to old habits. “Fort Rozz” is reassuring because it proves the show can make up for lost time and redeem villains it’s struggled to make use of in the past.

This episode certainly boasted a novel premise, with Kara taking on an interstellar mission without the benefit of her powers or the direct aid of her usual allies. Instead, she had to form a ragtag alliance that included Saturn Girl, Livewire and Psi. Basically, the closest this show will likely ever come to having its own Suicide Squad. Once again, Kara’s ability to lead, unify and inspire others took precedence over her physical strength. That generally tends to make for enjoyable conflicts, and this week was no exception.

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The Gifted: Season 1 Review

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Author’s Note: This is a mostly spoiler-free review of Season 1 of The Gifted. While we will be talking about some general plot lines, we won’t be explicitly giving away anything that happens. That way, if you were curious about the show, then you can read this season overview to get an idea of what it’s like without having everything spoiled for you.

The Gifted’s first season was faced with a difficult task: make a compelling show set in the world of the X-Men... without actually using any popular X-Men characters. The solution was for it to exist in a post-X-Men world and focus on the seemingly ordinary Strucker family. It turns out the Strucker children are both mutants, so to protect them, the parents make a deal with the mutant underground in order to escape the mutant-hunting Sentinel Services program. The first few episodes make a meal out of this predicament, adding in dramatic twists and forcing the characters to make impossible choices to protect their loved ones, but what follows after is a hit-or-miss affair dogged by the show’s low-end production value and repetitive episode structure. The Gifted does succeed in its mission, to a degree, largely thanks to a few standout performances and some satisfying season-long plotlines, but you have to be willing to forgive some of the less-than-stellar elements along the way.

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SteelSeries Rival 600 Gaming Mouse Review

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SteelSeries has an all-new flagship gaming mouse, and it's got some new tricks up its rubber-coated sleeve. Dubbed the Rival 600 (See it on Amazon) / (See it on Amazon UK) this new mouse is the first of its kind in that it features two optical sensors; one for traditional movement, and a second sensor that detects lift-off from the mouse surface, as serious players are often prone to do.

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Kickboxer Retaliation Review

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Dimitri Logothetis' Kickboxer: Retaliation – the seventh Kickboxer film, and the second in the 2016 rebooted continuity – knows, quite wisely, exactly what any passable fight film ought to contain. That is to say: A good deal of awesome fighting, a capable martial artist in the lead role, additional roles for other notable fighters/celebrities, a good deal more fighting, a mountainous super-villain, high energy, and a story that remains politely in the wings for prolonged periods, only occasionally making itself visible in order to hastily assist the film to its next kick-centric conflict. In short, Retaliation is – perhaps surprisingly – solid, exploitation movie fun.

The capable martial artist in the lead role is Alain Moussi, previously a stuntman on X-Men: Days of Future Past and Suicide Squad, reprising his role as (sigh) Kurt Sloane from 2016's Kickboxer: Vengeance. Kurt was last seen slaying Dave Bautista in a free-for-all underground martial arts competition in Thailand, and is, at the outset of Retaliation, lured back to Bangkok so that he can be taken into custody. He is spirited away to a secret Thai prison reserved exclusively for other murderous kickboxers, including the famed Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho, and America's own boxing bad boy Mike Tyson.

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Cooler Master MasterKeys MK750 Gaming Keyboard Review

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Cooler Master has launched a new flagship gaming keyboard; the MasterKeys MK750 (See it on Amazon) / (See it on Amazon UK), and the result is a decent step up from the rather mediocre MasterKeys Pro L. As a high-end keyboard it has all the trappings you'd expect, including a selection of Cherry MX switches, RGB lighting, a comfy wrist rest, dedicated media keys, and swappable keycaps. I took this new keyboard for a test drive to see how it stacks up to the best gaming keyboards around in this increasingly crowded market.

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Dragon Ball FighterZ Review

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Who’d have thought: matching one of the most iconic action anime of all time with one of the best fighting game developers in the business turns out to be a good idea. Dragon Ball FighterZ, from developer Arc System Works, successfully adapts the fast and thrilling pace of a Dragon Ball fight into a three-on-three 2D fighting game built around a beginner-friendly combo system and some of the most gorgeous and true to the source cel shaded art styles around.

Despite the visual chaos, Dragon Ball FighterZ’s mechanics are actually deceptively simple and easy to learn. There are just four attack buttons: light, medium, heavy, and a special attack button typically mapped to a projectile. There are no complicated special move input commands, like dragon punch, charge, or 360 motions. If you can throw a fireball in Street Fighter you can perform just about every single move and technique in FighterZ. That’s great, especially since you’re required to handle three characters at once.

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Telltale’s Latest Batman Adventure Redefines the Joker

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Clocking in at about 75 minutes, ‘What Ails You’ is Telltale’s shortest-yet episode of Batman: The Enemy Within. It’s also the first in which Bruce Wayne (mine still sporting a missing chunk of ear suffered in the Season 1 finale) leaves Batman’s cape and cowl at home the entire time. It serves the story just fine, however, because the quickened pace helps make the episode feel like the bottom of a ramping, two-episode drive towards whatever episode 5’s climax ends up being. In other words, things start to pay off.

On that note, I appreciated that ‘What Ails You’ avoids the obvious cliffhanger ending that The Enemy Within has previously been guilty of. Instead, the finale puts another twist on the backstory of The Joker (still known here as John Doe), leaving me tantalized and compelled to see what happens next without feeling like I was being hoodwinked to return for the upcoming finale.

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Sunday 21 January 2018

Discovery Drops Another Plot Bombshell

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Discovery is warping hot and fast towards the conclusion of its first season, as this third Mirror Universe episode answered even more questions, solved even more mysteries, and presented even more dire stakes to our intrepid Starfleeters -- all while also flipping the script on one major character in particular.

Let’s start then at the end, where the theory was confirmed that Captain Lorca has actually been the Mirror U. version of Lorca all season. This idea has been percolating for months among fans. It started because of his general warmongering attitude, escalated when he left Harry Mudd to his probable death in that Klingon jail, and was pretty well telegraphed in the mid-season finale when a quick cutaway shot indicated that he had purposely sent the Discovery to the Mirror U. But now, not only does Emperor Georgiou explain the obvious to Burnham, but Lorca himself seemingly confirms it while fighting the captain of the ISS Charon: “Her name was Ava. And I liked her. But you know how it is. Somebody better came along.”

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Friday 19 January 2018

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: "The Last Day" Review

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"The Last Day" seemingly answered a lot, but it also sort of created more havoc in its own strange way. Most notably however, the episode provided us with an unexpectedly sweet Melinda May storyline. As we began to see snippets of everyone's time in 2018 and beyond, including the collapse of humanity post-cataclysm and the survival deal with Kree overlords, we learned that May fell into a surprise maternal role with regards to young Robin.

Early on in the episode, May expressed distress over the fact that she couldn't fight or fly - the two skills she possessed that routinely helped keep everyone safe. Her role in all of this, we'd learn, would be key, but not in the way we, or she, would expect. As the one who grew close to Robin, over the years, she became the only one old Robin could confide in before she died. It was a really cool use of May, who hasn't been lacking in fight scenes this year (just wins), and a refreshing exploration of her emotional side. Her romantic interest in Coulson, I feel, was the beginning of this and now her motherly role toward Robin has capped it off nicely.

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The Hunt for Wolverine Begins in April

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Wolverine may have returned to life in the pages of Marvel Legacy #1 last year, but readers have yet to learn how the iconic X-Man cheated death or why he's joined the search for the Infinity Stones. Those questions will finally be answered in Hunt for Wolverine #1, a new one-shot comic hitting stores in April.

Fittingly, Hunt for Wolverine #1 will be written by Charles Soule, the man who helped kill Logan in 2014's Death of Wolverine. Soule will be joined by Civil War II artist David Marquez. Death of Wolverine artist Steve McNiven will provide the main cover for this issue, which depicts Logan emerging from the adamantium cocoon that enveloped him in Death of Wolverine #4.

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Batman: Gotham By Gaslight Review

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Batman: Gotham By Gaslight is a murder mystery set in a Victorian-era Gotham City that pits the Caped Crusader against Jack the Ripper. While there are some thrills to be had with this attempt at a Batman horror story, the film’s characters feel a bit undercooked, leading to an underwhelming climax. After all, in a whodunnit, the “who” had better be satisfying, and this one misses the mark.

The story is inspired by Gotham By Gaslight, a one-shot Elseworlds comic book from writer Brian Augustyn and artist Mike Mignola. The comic was a brisk 52 pages, more like dipping a toe into the idea of a Victorian-era Gotham rather than fully diving into the concept with a full-length graphic novel. It had only one real suspect, and he wound up being the murderer, so it wasn’t much of a mystery.

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Thursday 18 January 2018

Mary and the Witch's Flower Review

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There are very few filmmakers who could reasonably claim to know more about the relationship between melancholy and fantasy than Hiromasa Yonebayashi. His first two films as a director - The Secret World of Arrietty and When Marnie Was There - are masterpieces of loneliness, in which isolated heroes embark upon enchanting larger-than-life adventures and mature into better, more heroic people. And of course, those stories are animated as beautifully as anyone could possibly hope for.

So it’s unfortunate that Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s third film, and his first outside of Studio Ghibli, simply isn’t as magical as the others. (And pretty ironic, considering this one is literally about magic.) Once again, the director has set out to tell a story about a stifled young person whose personal hangups parallel the lessons she must learn throughout a perilous, fantastical journey, only this time she doesn’t appear to learn anything particularly meaningful, and even the plot smacks of familiarity. It’s the same amount of effort for less reward than usual.

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Rainbow Six Siege Review - Updated for 2018

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The tension before you breach a room in Rainbow Six Siege is often palpable. I’ll place a charge on one door while our sniper Glaz watches the windows from outside, and then wait for our teammate playing Dokkaebi to distract the enemies with a phone call before blowing it wide open. Coordination is key, and working together to get the most out of each our Operators’ abilities can be even more valuable as landing a good headshot – though the headshots definitely help.

Siege has come a long way since it launched two years ago (read our original Rainbow Six Siege review). A steady stream of new maps, operators, and cosmetic items - along with a heaping helping of bug fixes, balance changes, and stability improvements - have slowly transformed it into a much deeper competitive game, even if there are some growing pains that come along with that. Siege has always been a fun and challenging FPS, but as it enters its third year it has gained a pull that’s become hard to resist.

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Den of Thieves Review

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Den of Thieves is a litany of undercooked ideas and missed potential but its biggest issue is the fact that it's a laborious slog. It wants to be a mix of Heat and The Usual Suspects but it’s not. Inside, and you get a glimpse of it every now and again, is an action-packed, potentially pretty decent 100-minute heist movie but what is served up is a 2 hour and 20-minute movie with too much filler - it’s right there but you can’t see the wood for the trees.

The idea is a pretty good one. $120 million in cash is taken out of circulation and destroyed by the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve every day and a notorious, elite crew of bank robbers, led by Pablo Schreiber’s Merrimen, has their eyes on it. The only thing stopping them from pulling off the ultimate heist is LA’s most feared division in law enforcement, led by Gerard Butler’s Nick ‘Big Nick’ Flanagan, and they plan to do it right under their noses.

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FitBit Flex 2 Review

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Sometimes, less is more. When it comes to FitBit's stripped-down Flex 2 fitness tracker (See it on Amazon) / (See it on Amazon UK), the saying certainly rings true. The reputable company's entry-level device is less of a smart fitness tracker and more of a collection of sensors you wear on your wrist. It doesn't have a fancy design that you'd want to show off—it doesn't even have a screen—but what it does it does well, and perhaps most importantly, all the feature cutting lets it come in as one of the least expensive trackers you can buy at just $59.95.

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Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters Review

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Netflix is now streaming the first episode -- "Planet of the Monsters" -- of a three-part animated Godzilla movie trilogy, which was previously released theatrically in Japan.

If 2016’s Godzilla Resurgence was a jump forward, then Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters is a leap. Not only because it’s the first animated Godzilla film, but also because it just oozes video game sensibilities.

Look at the background of the production team. Directors Kobun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita are known for their work on Knights of Sidonia, Ajin: Demi-Human and BLAME!, and between them they have pushed the boundaries of CG animation in Japan, but at the beginning of their careers, they were also involved in the production of a Final Fantasy-related anime series.

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Wednesday 17 January 2018

The X-Files: "Plus One" Review

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"Talk about flinging dookie."

Whereas last week's X-Files chapter was a trippy, quasi-meta thriller with tenuous ties to background mythology, "Plus One" was a return to basics - with creator Chris Carter crafting a "spooky lethal circumstance of the week"-type tale about nutso twins who cause people to mysterious die at the hands of their own doppelgänger.

Sure, there were a few things to lament here and there. One wishes Scully's perpetual skepticism could be updated a bit to reflect the breadth of all she's experienced over the course of the series, and the actual hows and whys of the murders seemed to get swept under a big rug by the time our heroes began seeing their own shadowy killer doubles - but all in all this episode was solid.

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AO Tennis Review

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AO Tennis claims to be ‘the most advanced tennis game ever produced,’ but it’s clear that its lofty ambition far exceeds its ability to execute. Certainly AO Tennis is not even up to the standard of the Top Spin or Virtua Tennis games released an entire console generation ago, and is about as absent-minded, half-hearted, and personality free as a birthday card from Bernard Tomic.

AO Tennis has a handful of fresh ideas but they’re far from fully formed and never really adequately explained thanks to the complete absence of any in-game tutorials. For example, you’re given the option of using the right thumbstick to both serve and play your shots with, but I soon discovered that the former is limited only to flat serves and the latter automatically decides the shot type for you. If you want to deliberately impart slice on a serve or put topspin on a forehand you’re forced to revert to the classic face button setup anyway, which meant that I soon ditched the half-baked thumbstick controls and never went back.

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