The whole grandiose promise of Love, Death & Robots comes crashing down when a woman called Greta starts pouring champagne over her breasts before giving an augmented reality PowerPoint presentation with her top off. In sci-fi, the male gaze is often too strong to bear – but here, it’s off the charts. It could – and should – have been so different. David Fincher and Tim Miller’s expensive and...
On the internet, truth has become a commodity. “I Supported Hillary Clinton Until I Saw This,” stated the headline on a sponsored story from UpVibes.com that appeared on the New York Post in September 2016. “These Bill Clinton Facts Will Change Your Opinion of the Clintons” claimed another from LifeDaily. Both articles were put on the Post by Outbrain, a leading content marketing network. The...
Read more: Gallery: New York Toy Fair 2015: the best Lego sets With more than 300 new Lego kits unveiled at this year’s New York Toy Fair you may be a bit lost as where to start. We had a hands-on tour of the Lego booth and compiled this comprehensive low down on everything you need to know from the show. Some additions to the line were to be expected: the City range was expanded again, as were...
“What inspired us? The revolutionary spirit of the younger generation!” I’m talking to Adryn Alvarez, a young Instagram user, about why he’s joined a group of memers attempting to unionise. Supporters of the “meme union” are mainly concerned with Instagram’s practice of censoring posts or banning accounts; they believe the platform has displayed a “pattern of undue censorship and regulation that...
Phones at the ready – Pokémon Go is back, now filled with the second generation Pokémon first introduced in Pokémon Gold and Silver. Read more: Pokémon Go update adds 80 new Pokémon, special items and berries The massive update to the game, available on iOS and Android, doesn’t just mean a host more monsters to catch though – like the Game Boy games the latest version of Niantic’s hit augmented...
Towards the end of Joker, the title character stands atop a car, revelling in the midst of a crowd of protesters made up in his image. Now, almost inevitably, the character has become a symbol for real-life protestors too. At its release, the film – which stars Joaquin Phoenix in a dark take on the Batman villain – prompted moral panic and a warning issued by the US Military. It was feared that...
We’ve seen the end of the world countless times in video games, most often in the form of some kind of nuclear apocalypse or other. Whether in Fallout, Metro, or any number of other titles, the result is usually the same – a ravaged, brown, oppressive world filled with horrific creatures mutated into being by the radioactive fallout. Doesn’t it get a bit boring after a while? Aren’t we getting...
It’s no exaggeration to state that much of the history of film’s technological development has been driven by attempts to capture the habits of animals. The photographer Eadweard Muybridge laid the foundations of modern cinema in 1873, when he created a method of sequential photography to discover whether the four legs of a galloping horse ever become airborne (supposedly to settle a bet; all...
By now, you’ll have seen the latest Avengers: Infinity War trailer – and to mark the imminent arrival of Marvel’s latest, LEGO has revisited an iconic piece of kit from the previous film, the Mark 44 Hulkbuster Iron Man suit. Yes, they have done this set before (2015’s Hulkbuster Smash 76031), and there’s another, less expensive Infinity War Hulkbuster set currently out there (76104, with that...
Those games, released in November, feature just 302 Pokémon (the final two, Magearna and Marshadow, only being available through special distribution events). However, long-time fans know a full Pokédex – the in-game catalogue of Pokémon – adds up to 802 elementally-powered beasts. That meant a whopping 500 Pokémon from earlier games were largely unavailable in the latest editions. Yes, some of...