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Month: December 2015

  • Gauntlet: Slayer Edition

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    This is one of the offering’s from PS+ this month, and I’d actually been quite looking forward to playing it, having heard good things – I remember one friend in particular, who’s judgement I trust, saying how much he enjoyed it. Well, it’s indeed a blast to play, feeling like what a Gauntlet game should…

  • Star Wars Rebels

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    As I’ve written recently, I prefer to watch shows after the season is over these days, but as I continue to get hyped for The Force Awakens (and finally bought tickets for a showing the other night) I decided to go through what’s aired so far of season 2 of Star Wars Rebels. I quite…

  • Hotel Transylvania 2

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    Following yesterday’s awesome news about a new season of Samurai Jack coming our way next year, I got a double dose of Genndy by watching Hotel Transylvania 2 (he directed it), which I’d say is even better than the first one. What I love so much about these two movies is that they are the…

  • Samurai Jack

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    I’m so incredibly happy at the news that Samurai Jack is coming back next year for a new season, and with Genndy Tartakovsky still involved. The series is absolutely one of my favorites, and I’m celebrating by watching some of it again (I’m currently progressing through season 2). I love everything about the show, from…

  • Wolfenstein: The New Order

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    I’m having such a blast playing this game, it’s ridiculous. I often mention here that I’m not that into FPSes, and I should probably stop saying that since I do play quite a lot of them, but I will say that for me this is the kind of FPS I like to play – there’s…

  • The Order: 1886

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    I had always been curious to play this, and at 10 bucks during a recent PSN sale, I finally took the plunge. I’ve only played an hour or two so far, but it’s certainly one of the nicest looking games I’ve seen – realistic-looking graphic fidelity doesn’t get much nicer than this in games, me…

  • Billy Bat

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    Naoki Urasawa is my favorite mangaka, and his current series, Billy Bat – the story of a Mickey Mouse-like comic strip character that is more than it seems – has been a treat to follow. I hadn’t read any new chapters since earlier in the year, and just this week went and got caught up on…

  • Inuyashiki

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    I just recently came across this new-ish manga from Hiroya Oku (Gantz), and was so absorbed that I plowed through everything that has been released so far (5 volumes) in one morning. It’s a mesmerizing and very dark take on what happens when someone suddenly finds themselves with fantastic (and mechanical) powers, good or bad.…

  • The Assassin

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    I was deeply affected by this movie. My first steps to Asia were taken after I enrolled in an East-Asian Studies program, focusing on the Chinese side, which led me to studying in China. Chinese cinema – especially the work of Zhang Yimou, and but even a film like Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor – contributed…