This Chris fellow is an astoundingly boring person despite the vast array of fandom to which he claims membership. He enjoys watching a bit of Doctor Who, the Sarah Jane Adventures, Warehouse 13, Scott & Bailey, and hitting the movie theatres early on Friday to catch the probably overhyped new release. As a former manager at Electronics Boutique, he cooled on video games for a while but has crept back into the fold thanks to Rock Band and every game BioWare has ever made. Reading is his biggest time sink as he tears through subjects from biographies to science fiction, but especially history because he’s a Big History Nerd(tm). (But please, don’t hold that against him.) Chris also refuses to give up the Oxford comma, though he wisely uses only one space after a period. He currently resides in Florida with a cat named Cat and, even with the cat, continues to find it a most unpleasant place to live.

Not all fans of cosplay are bad. In fact, it is fandom that gave birth to cosplay in the first place and hopefully that cycle of creativity will never end. But there are some people who push things too far. For the sake of argument, we’ll call him “That Guy”.

The first book to chronicle the art of the entire Mass Effect trilogy is presented with the same skilled craftsmanship that exemplifies all BioWare products. Even if you aren’t a fan of their games, this book is worth a look for the various pieces of art featured within.

Whether you are a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s enduring legacy or not, The Hound of the D’Urbervilles is a book well worth reading. A candle burner, you’ll have a very hard time putting it down from start to finish.

As Doctor Who has returned for the second half of series 6, it seems to have followed a more or less standard pattern: standalone story with a minor increase in the over-arching plot. “The God Complex” is no different.

Sometimes technical flaws, entrenched competition, a prohibitive price point, or merely the fickle tastes of the public can result in the untimely death of an otherwise (for its time) brilliant piece of technology. We begin the Remembering Technology series with the PXL2000.

I generally expected to get about the same level of enjoyment out of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt – The Worst Album as I did with the show’s first soundtrack. Did I? Not as much as I might have liked.