If you’re ever in need of a little motivation, Noelle Stevenson is who to turn to. Her whirlwind career started on tumblr with her ‘hipster Lord of the Rings’ fanart and has gone from strength to strength since, starting with Nimona. Nimona started life as a webcomic, an incredibly popular webcomic. Following the story of […]
Fantasy is a genre that has been ingrained in culture and storytelling from the earliest days of human communications, spanning many mediums and primarily deals with forces of supernatural or magical nature. Fantasy works tend to be set in highly fictional worlds where strange creatures, magic and tales of adventure are common themes throughout . […]
As an English student I’ve observed more and more that lovers of literature, verbose and passionate as we are, tend to manifest our opinions so rigorously that you can fairly reduce readers down to handy stereotypes. Such as: 1. That person that who’ll never let go of Harry Potter Okay, that’s unfair insofar as none […]
Germany Production House, Beta Film, is teaming up with Frank Doelger, producer of Game of Thrones along with Jonathan Stamp (producer of Rome), to create a 12-part fantasy series called The Perished Land. It was announced in Cannes over the last few days that this series is due to be released in 2017. The series will […]
The Lego games have been known for their fourth wall breaking humour and classic references, but Traveller’s Tales’s latest entry into the series, Lego Dimensions, is taking things to a new level. The game features a multiverse story, following classic characters from franchises like Batman, Lord of the Rings and now Scooby-Doo. Yes that’s right, […]
In the early naughties the internet seemed like an unreal place. It was somehow remote from the outside world. Having permeated so many of our day to day lives, such an impression seems laughable and yet, for some, the online world retains that air of being removed. What then could be more tangible than a current Indiegogo campaign to […]
The first comic that I remember falling into my hands was this old, somewhat faded copy of a story about a hobbit. A few months prior to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films exploded on to the big screen, I was entrusted with the family copy of J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit (I don’t know […]
I’ve been working through my massive collection of books that I keep promising myself that I’m going to read. Goodreads have set up a reading challenge that allows you to set a number of books that you plan to read in 2015. My friends had started this way before I did but I have a […]
This morning I posed a question on The Arcade’s Facebook page: ‘What scares you while playing a game?’ Not everyone was forthcoming with their fears, though I probably shouldn’t have asked the question at 8:30am! I can’t be the only person who is constantly thinking of their very real and perfectly logical and rational fears […]
It’s difficult to choose the top five roles of anyone’s career, let alone that of a man who has been in the business for almost 70 years, but Sir Christopher Lee is especially difficult to praise because it doesn’t seem good enough for a man as multi-talented as he. Not only was he an inspiring heavy metal singer, […]
