This Just In: New Arrivals for the Week of July 30
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Can You Believe Optimus Prime has Been Dead for 40 Years?
Transformers: The Movie celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. For a lower-mid-budget animated feature designed to sell toys, the film...
The Five Star Weekend Confirms Jennifer Garner as the Queen of Heartbroken Smiles
Peacock’s drama series The Five Star Weekend appeared out of nowhere a few weeks ago to become one of the...
Video Game Life Lessons: Suikoden’s Real Roots
You can learn a lot from video games. It’s funny—game developers used to bend over backwards to create “edutainment” games...
How ArtDink’s Train Obsession Led to One of the PS1’s Unsung Mascots
Gaming mascots come and go. Every now and again, though, one of them scratches an itch that the world didn’t...
Lara Croft’s G.I. Joe Collaboration Brings Together 50 Years of Pop Culture Tradition
In addition to Lara Croft putting in an appearance in the ongoing G.I. Joe comic series, she’s also putting in...
Physical, Forever: Epoch’s Cassette Vision Stuck an Entire Console in A Cartridge
One of the wildest dates back to 1981, when a toy and games company called Epoch began selling Japan’s first-ever...
Meccha Chameleon: Paint, Laugh, Die
With Meccha Chameleon, two guys in Japan have made the next mega-hit by harnessing other people's imaginations. An art-based hide-and-seek...
30 Years Ago, Game Boy Pocket Saved Nintendo’s Bacon by Ignoring Conventional Wisdom
Game Boy is the only console in history that not only started obsolete but also had a second wind seven...
SDCC Week: Live, Die, or Heel Turn? Our Avengers: Doomsday Guess List
Now that the next Avengers film, Doomsday, is almost here, how will it make good on its namesake by making...
Sonic X Shadow Generations: The Lasting Appeal of Sonic
another Sonic X Shadow Generations statue update consisting of “the manufacturer is still fine-tuning the production samples.” That’s not a...
SDCC Week: In 2004, Scott Pilgrim Reinvented Comics for a World Dominated by Video Games
When Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life arrived in book stores in 2004, it was like nothing anyone had ever seen before....
This Just In for the Week of July 23
Welcome back to This Just In, the more-or-less weekly feature wherein we showcase all the cool stuff that has arrived...
SDCC Week: Yo, Come Visit Our Booth
Team LRG has landed at San Diego Comic-Con! Most folks are still setting up their booths for Preview Night, but...
SDCC Week: How Comic-Cons Became Big Business
A couple of decades ago, comics attempted to rebrand themselves as “sequential art.” It may be hard to believe today,...
Peglin's 2.0 Update Makes it Even Harder to Put Down
Do you recall Peggle? PopCap's pachinko-like experience was one of web-based gaming's highlights during that format’s salad days in the...
40 Years Ago, Aliens Taught the World How To Action
You could almost be forgiven for thinking James Cameron’s sci-fi action masterpiece Aliens is a modern film, even though it...
10 Years Ago, Pokémon Go Forced You to Meet Your Neighbor
Pokémon Go is a decade old and still going strong, though we do miss one thing from the simpler times.