Author Archives: Fandomania

As I’ve mentioned in the past, it’s a rare thing these days for me to find a game on the XBLA that I’m willing to drop actual Microsoft points to buy. Ticket To Ride is one game that did manage to pry 800 points from my miserly hands, Read More

Yesterday I vented about the horrendous job Eaglemoss did with the paints on their Psylocke figurine. Will the Vulture rate better? Here's the review after the jump. Read More

Starting today on the XBox 360 and Thursday on the Playstation 3, you’ll be able to download the full album Doolittle by The Pixies, as well as a pack of three songs from Weezer’s new Red Album. Here’s a rundown of exactly what Read More

Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to grab these two new games on the XBox Live Arcade: Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm and Ticket To Ride. The games will be available for the recently standard XBLA price of 800 MS Points ($10) each. Happy Tree Read More

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is the first band-specific disc release in the series, and the final list of included songs has hit the web. I still think it’s odd that a big portion of the included tracks are not, in fact, by Aerosmith. That aside, here Read More

Marvel Entertainment previously announced that their upcoming Captain America film is slated for a May 2011 release, in anticipation of the Avengers movie that’s coming soon thereafter. Now it looks like there could be a different sort of Read More

Two new Stephen King based series have been solicited from Marvel Comics in the July issue of Diamond Comics’ Previews catalog. The first is the adaptation of the classic novel, The Stand, which I wrote about previously. The comic adaptation is Read More

Every week the Skrulls infiltrate more of the Marvel Universe, and last week the epic tale poured into Incredible Hercules #118 and Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #2. Here’s a look at what we learned from each of these and how they affected the Read More

Eaglemoss' Classic Marvel Figurines is one of my favorite ongoing collectible lines, and Psylocke has just joined the ever growing ranks of characters represented as a small-scale lead figure. How does she measure up to the rest of the line? Here's the Read More

Doctor Who is in the home stretch of the fourth season, with only two more to go after this newest one. After a largely companion-less episode last week, we get a largely Doctor-less one this time. Here’s a review of “Turn Left,” with Read More

Matt Murdock is back in legal action, having taken on a new case. Here’s a review of the latest issue (with spoilers), in stores this Wednesday. Read More

I’ve been pretty hard on Activision and Guitar Hero in the past, from their overpriced downloadable songs to their inflexibility with allowing Rock Band peripherals. But now I think they just might be setting a good precedent for the music game Read More