Flight of the Icarus

In the Hand of Dante review: Oscar Isaac leads a languid drama as both Italian poet Dante and New York author Nick Tosches.

Remember the Honeycomb Aeronautical Echo Aviation Controller, the intense PC flight sim gamepad that came out last year? Well, the company has announced a new one, the Echo Aviation Controller XPC, coming to "wannabe pilots" who own Xbox Series X|S consoles later this year.It looks like the same controller that the company released last year, just with a big Xbox button at the top of the pad. It's still lousy (complimentary) with buttons, rear rudder sliders, throttle sliders, switches, and knobs inspired by actual flight controls. It's apparently everything required for &quo

Shadow of the Colossus and Ico creator Fumito Ueda reveals new details about Gen Atlas, his upcoming giant robot adventure with Epic Games.

There's something that really stood out for me as someone in the UK who collected American comics at the end of the 1980s. It's that each new comic you got was a doorway to a world of absolute chaos and gimmickry. I'm not talking about the comic stories themselves, but about the American ads that were suddenly blaring out of the alternate spreads. Topps bubble gum cards. Garbage Pail whatevers. Endless enticements to buy Bayou Billy on the Nintendo Entertainment System. You'd be reading about Batman, knocking gloomily around some Gotham spire, and then you'd turn the page and, WHAMMO, somethin

"Young and old, gather round / Everybody hail the new king in town."