I quite like Bioshock on the whole, but the Rescue/Harvest system as a combination of a morality system and a practical resource-gathering method kind of falls apart if you look at it in any detail. After every few Little Sisters rescued you get a special bonus thingy that contains a lump sum of ADAM, so in the end…

If nothing else, I'm glad first person shooters appear to finally be moving away from the cover based Stop N' Pop popularized by Modern Warfare and Gears of War and back towards Doom-style Run N' Gun. Between Advanced Warfare, Titanfall, Destiny, and the upcoming Overwatch it looks like FPSes are getting back a lot of…

Gomez rocketed to the top of my "favourite Masters" list tonight (although I'm reserving a spot on that list for Alex MacQueen's take on the role in the Big Finish stuff.) I really, really hope that wasn't the last we'll get to see of her, although I doubt if they'll be bringing her back any time too soon.

I feel like Osgood's death here is sort of the opposite of Jenny's "death" in The Name Of The Doctor. In that episode Jenny was killed by the Whispermen and got a pretty solid emotional farewell from the Paternosters et al, but then the episode wussed out and brought her back. All emotion, no consequences.

Let us begin the inevitable season and episode rankings.

Come back to us Cloks! And see if you can't find stak, Eff, and Lottie Grote while you're at it.

I think most of the folks who have taken Sabbaticals have yet to return, but if it's only until Thanksgiving we should be able to limp on without you. Hurry back, though!

Oh my God they've learned to communicate. Isn't this how Age Of Ultron starts?

Oh shit, I almost forgot about Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth. I've been salivating over that pretty hard for the last little while. Between BoI:R and the recently released Mac version of Transistor, I think I might have to finally run a software update on my Mac. I've been running 10.6.8 for ages, which has been fine, but…

My friends and I once had a conversation about our most hated living persons, and I instinctively went straight for Bam Margera. It didn't even occur to me to pick, like, a war criminal or a despot or a child killer or anything, I just hate Bam Margera so fucking much.

I'm not sure how much of a shit Studio Ghibli gives about their Oscar record, but they definitely deserve more than one of the bastards. The fact that it took Spirited Away, maybe the best animated film ever, to net them a win over a western picture (it beat out two Disney films and a Dreamworks one) indicates how…

I was crushed when ParaNorman didn't win in 2012. Not only is it probably my favourite film of the last several years, but I actually think both Brave and Wreck-It Ralph were comparatively weak offerings from Pixar and Disney.

You'd be wise to catch them both. Saw them both at TIFF in September, and loved them both. I think I might have preferred Song Of The Sea, which I'm pleased to see get a nomination, even if it'll almost certainly lose to- *checks which Disney film was nominated* Big Hero 6.

Yeah, a few years back some people recommended I start watching the various TGWTG shows because I was getting more into film and film criticism, and I found the entire site repellent, with the sole exception of the Nostalgia Chick. She still indulged in too many little skits and storylines and crossover events for my…

The only thing I didn't love about the Mistress reveal was that it squashed my hopes of a Capaldi Doctor/MacQueen Master showdown.

Seeing Chuckles up there in the article header reminds me of some stuff Chris Franklin of Errant Signal was saying on Twitter about the Alien: Isolation monster design, and how it differs slightly from the designs of the films. Now, there's never been a totally standardized xeno design, as they've been slightly…

Me too bud. I've mentioned this on the site before, but I watched Aliens for the first time when I was way too young to handle it, and the xenomorphs have been my go-to scary thing ever since. I never used to have nightmares about killer clowns or gremlins or vampires or whatever the hell, only xenomorphs. Even today…

Saw it not all that long ago, and wasn't blown away honestly. Sort of squanders a great cast. Maybe I just have a really low tolerance for self-important undergrad beat poets, but I just wanted to shove every character in the film into a locker.

Yeah, I'm surprised this is only coming out now, since I saw it at TIFF… two years ago.

Yeah, I know that the sound of a footprint is often important in some way to gameplay, and for that reason important to represent in the game's audio, but actual real life footprints are usually pretty stealthy unless you're walking on a weird surface or wearing tap shoes. I think it's a matter of translation- we tend…