Category Archives: Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh

The Melancholy Joys of Russian Science Fiction: Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh

Adi Tantimedh writes; I’ve been in a mood for Russian Science Fiction lately, so I bought the video game METRO: LAST LIGHT and THE NEW WATCH, the latest in Sergei Lukyanekno’s Watch novels. METRO: LAST LIGHT is a sequel to …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: Worst! Starship Captain! Ever!

No, I’m not talking about STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS. That’s next week. This week, I can’t help but be slightly obsessed with the iOS starship management game STAR COMMAND. STAR COMMAND was one of the first games on Kickstarter …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: Eve Online And The Crowdsourcing Of A Science Fiction Epic

So I ran off to my local Chinatown DVD shop to buy the new Wong Kar-Wai movie THE GRANDMASTER with a plan to watch and then write about it, but something else caught my attention this weekend. Wong Kar-Wai will …

Neil Druckman And Faith Erin Hicks On The Last Of Us Comic – Adi Tantimedh’s Look! It Moves!:

Last week saw the release of the first issue of THE LAST OF US: AMERICAN DREAMS, a prequel comic to the upcoming Playstation 3 game THE LAST OF US. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where Humanity is barely holding on …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: “There’s Always A Man, There’s Always A City…”

(WARNING: SPOILERS FOR BIOSHOCK 1 AND 2, AND MINOR SPOILERS FOR BIOSHOCK INFINITE) BIOSHOCK INFINITE is the latest contender of Game As Art. It’s certainly a must-play game for anyone interested in not just fun, but also how games tell …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: Epic Fantasies On The Radio

Adi Tantimedh writes; It’s been a good month for the fantasy on the radio. We’ve had the fourth series of Sebastian Baczkiewicz’ brilliant PILGRIM and the start of the radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s NEVERWHERE. As I’ve said before, PILGRIM …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: This Ain’t No Party! This Ain’t Sparta!

Adi Tantimedh writes; We all know about V FOR VENDETTA being adopted by Anonymous and The Occupy Movement after the movie came out. V’s Guy Fawkes mask is now a symbol of global anti-authoritarian protest like ANONYMOUS, despite Warner Brothers …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: Invitation To The Corpse Party

Adi Tantimedh writes; Here’s a game that gives me lots to talk about: a Japanese survival horror game series called CORPSE PARTY, out for download on the PSP and Playstation Vita. I bought them when I got tired of shooting …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: Don’t Mess With The Teenage Arms Dealer

Adi Tantimedh writes; With movies subsisting on clichés and American superhero comics taking their clichés from both movies and themselves, I always look to manga for fresh ideas. Yes, manga has its own set of clichés as well, but in …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: Game As Life, Life As Game

Gamification has been a buzz word lately as the process where a mundane activity can be treated as a game to impel you to feel more fulfilled doing it. Games are hobbies, pastimes, and Role-Playing Games offer not only fantasy …

Look! It Moves!: Our Year Of Romance With Spies

2012 has been the year of Spies in pop culture, perhaps more than any other. We’ve had the latest James Bond flick SKYFALL, the second season of HOMELAND as popular and big a talking point as ever, and now Kathryn …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: The Best Villain of 2012 Torturin’ McLovin

Adi Tantimedh writes; You may not have heard of Canadian actor Michael Mando, especially if you don’t play videogames. He plays Vaas Montenegro, one of the villains of the new shooter game FAR CRY 3. Vaas is the Best Villain …

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: The Spandex Special

Adi Tantimedh writes; The seventh issue of Martin Eden’s gay superhero team comic SPANDEX has been released this month, marking the end of the series barring a final special issue due out next year. SPANDEX is part of the …

Look! It Moves!: The Messy Lot Of The Sexually Repressed Hitman

So. HITMAN: ABSOLUTION, a game where you play a bald man in a suit for hire who finds creative and preferably discreet ways of murdering people. I admit it, it’s kind of fun, this sociopathy simulator, scouring an environment to …