Mind Control Division

Media intelligence through investigation and experimentation

The Mind Control Division is the intelligence arm of Blaine Kyllo's Solo Corps. This department conducts investigations and experiments into media culture, which includes, but is not limited to, writing on television, video games, and books.

I’m currently writing on video games ("Trigger Happy" in the Georgia Straight and "Joystuck" in FFWD Weekly), consumer technology ("Techno Logic" in the Georgia Straight), and television ("Remote View" appears at CinemaSpy.ca).

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Space Marine sports seamless combat · 21 September 2011, 10:15

My review of Vancouver-based Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine ran in last week’s Georgia Straight.

You might think, when you first see the hulking soldiers in Space Marine, that the developers at Vancouver’s Relic Entertainment borrowed from the popular Gears of War games. But the truth is that the look of the Ultramarines in the Warhammer 40,000 universe predate the Epic Games shooters. And while the Ultramarines are genetically enhanced, they were conceived in 1987, years before Halo’s Spartans.

Filed in Trigger-Happy, video-games

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