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Jonathan Maberry got intoThe X-Fileslike most people. He brought it over and we watched it the next week. From then on it was a crowd, The X Party. Every week wasThe X-Filesweek. HisX-Filesobsession took him into rare territory for a die-hard fan. Jonathan Maberry:This kind of grew out of that. Ive doneThe X-Filesanthologies for IDW, and I was talking to Ted Adams, the CEO. We were talking about how Id like to do more with young Fox Mulder....

Do LMDs dream of electric sheep? Agent May is certainly dreaming of escape on this weeks Agents of SHIELD. ThisAgents of SHIELDreview contains spoilers. I guess we should start with the double main event, both featuring a different Agent May. Now, this is the first weve heard of May and Coulsons potential star-crossed romance. Robotic self-preservation and pursuit of emotional contentment? As I said, how veryWestworld. Ad content continues below...

This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. Its been a decade sinceSkins, Britains controversial teen drama, premiered. It achieved that rare feat: it got young people to watch and talk about it. And, after seven years of drinking, drugs and general debauchery, it bowed out in 2013. Skinswas a show always preoccupied with how things felt, rather than how they actually might have happened. It made things choppy and turned a lot of people off....

Heres how the conversation went. Lets start by thinking about the differences between a voice-only performance and an on-camera performance. What would you say the major distinctions are? Certainly the past twenty years I say like Im some sort of specialist theres been a trend towards uber-naturalism. I suppose is a lazier way of looking at it is that you just throw everything away. That was the big thing I learned....

The Path, Hulus psychological drama, returns with a vengeance in a second season that ups the stakes. The Path Season 2 Hulu It only works when you believe. Because once you pull that thread it just turns to nothing, right in your hands. And man oh man, does this show ever evolve. Now more than ever, its about a tug of war between belief systems. Most characters are frantically trying to catch up from the events of last years finale....

We talked to the co-creator of All Time Comics about his new superhero universe. All Time Comicsis maybe the most unexpected comic in the game right now. Its very existence is a contradiction, and contradictions reverberate through the project. These are contradictions that Josh Bayer, in an exclusive interview withDen of Geek, owned. All Time Comicsis…a square with round edges, he told us. Think of these as the weird superhero comics from 1979 that you never read....

This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. Hes a writer working at a point where screenwriting continues to get scant regard in some quarters. Read reviews of a movie, and how often is the writer mentioned? We were curious, so chatted to James about the value of screenwriting, and his thoughts on it. Here how it went… The first thing they ask is if Ive written anything they might have seen....

As the Wii U makes way for Nintendo Switch, we celebrate the system’s underappreciated exclusive games… This article originally appeared atDen of Geek UK. As of 2016, the Wii Usold fewer than 15m. An early printing ofBayonetta 2came with a port of the first game. For the fullBayonettaexperience, its well worth trying to get hold of both. If you love fighting games, you wont regret it. Heres hoping we get another one of these on Switch....

The Behemoth’s new whimsical indie RTS game, Pit People, has hit early access. Is it worth picking up? This actually makes sense in context. One ofPit Peoples best features is the ability to capture almost any opposing unit. It gives each battle a bit of aPokemonfeel. Battles take place on hexagonal grids and are turn-based. That doesnt mean that Pit People is overly-simple though. Frankly, the size of the world and the amount of equipment you might pick up is staggering....

Resident Evil 7 changes the format of the franchise, but does it define its future? The primary concern of many gamers had shifted from Will this game be good? to Will this game live up to the legacy I have assigned it? Instead, think of the tragically underrated Xbox 360 launch titleCondemned: Criminal Origins. Resident Evil 7s campaign is one of the greatest single-player adventures released in recent memory. Then again, nobody could have ever quite anticipated the brilliance of this titles level design....

Star Wars Episode VIII is officially called The Last Jedi. What does this title tell us about the movie? One quality that many of these titles seem to share is that theyre telling, but also ambiguous. The movies intent is clear and youre sitting in the audience along for the ride. At first glance,The Last Jediworks on the same level. This is the story of Luke Skywalker the one we didnt get inThe Force Awakens....

In fact, even Capcomhad to acknowledge the logos likeness to a giraffejust so the joke would die. And die it did, but not because Capcom made a couple of PG replies on Facebook. The studios solution to the series suddenly-stunted creative advancement was simple. Its a noble idea that had disastrous consequences. More importantly, each campaign emphasized a different style of gameplay. Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans section was closer to a modern military shooter....

DJ Carusos directorial resume doesnt pin him down easily. Joe 3, in which he wanted to introduce the Transformers. Den of Geek: Did your involvement in this spring out of your talks with the studio about doingG.I. We had something over at Sony calledInvertigo, this cool antigravity movie. Things didnt work out and so about a couple months, I was working onG.I. Were handing in those scripts. A couple months into that, he called and said, I want to bringxXxback....