Abdul R. Siddiqui

With Captain America: The Winter Soldier hitting theaters today, fans are once again reminded that Marvel is working hard to try and snatch the mantle of the ultimate American hero from DC's Superman. Captain America is a uniquely American icon with…

2014 is going to be the epic year the gaming world has been waiting for; 2013 gave us consoles with the potential for great games — but no great games. This year will be different, as a truly awesome lineup of titles is quickly headed our…

Ultimate Gay Fighter sounds like a bad joke you might hear in the ever tolerant and accepting environment of a men's locker room. In reality, it's a mobile game app that pits gay combatants against homophobes. Created by developer Michael Patrick,…

Editor's note: Graphic content below.  How would you feel if Vintage Books suddenly changed the age of the titular character in Vladimir Nobakov's Lolita, and then reworded any parts they deemed too controversial? That is essentially what video game…

When the video game publishing giant Electronic Arts released a China-centric expansion to their military shooting simulation Battlefield 4, they likely expected controversy — and they got it. The Chinese government allegedly issued a ban on the…

Videogame developer Capcom recently announced its plans to release Ultra Street Fighter IV, the latest update to their classic fighting simulation franchise. Among the four additional characters announced as part of the update is Poison — a post-op…

This week saw the release of two major entries into the gaming world: Angry Birds Go and Peggle 2. Both are new installments in highly successful franchises, and both have been labeled as "casual games" — that is, they have been dismissed as…

Last week, some malicious brigand applied for a fake trademark in the name of fallen gaming giant Sega's rumored, but never confirmed, Shenmue III. Fans of the classic video game franchise quickly took to Twitter to show their love, and before Sega…

Wholesome Thanksgiving specials usually try to teach us that turkey time is best observed when a family behaves like the Cosbys or the Bradys. But as classic as those shows are, they're about peaceful families and as such don't quite capture…

When people make sweeping, ethnocentric statements such as "China, Thailand, Indonesia — pretty much all of Asia — are hot beds of patriarchy where women are inferior beings, subservient to the males in their life and denied subject status," it's…

Call of Duty: Ghosts, the latest in Activision's now-iconic military shooter series, hit store shelves today. Already geared to be one of the best-selling games of all time and certainly one of the year's biggest hits, Ghosts is the closest thing…

As a New York transplant, I always wonder whether native New Yorkers notice the strangeness of their New Yorker lifestyle. Do they notice that it's not considered polite behavior in most places to order your coffee from the barista without so much…

Sometimes, a movie is so beloved that we want to see it again and again. But sometimes the story is essentially over. I mean, come on, Scarface is dead. No doubt about it. Therefore, to cash in a franchise where there can be no sequel, authors…

PolicyMic pundit, New York University student, and all-around awesome person Anjana Sreedhar recently published an article titled "5 Most Offensive Asian Characters in TV History." The terrific piece highlighted the love-hate relationship that some…

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the TV spin-off to Marvel’s The Avengers, recently debuted to fantastic ratings. That very day, DC Comics announced its own spin-off from their own iconic Dark Knight series titled Gotham. And, like everything else Marvel and…

Beyond: Two Souls may be the last great game for the PlayStation 3. The latest production by the outspoken and talented game designer David Cage, Beyond: Two Souls offers a unique feature: the main character’s death will not end the game. Whether or…

A child’s perspective on life is, in its own way, beautiful because it is a vision devoid of things like learning and, by extension, understanding. Children do not see the world the way we see it, mainly because many of the rules we operate by are…

David Ellis, a designer for 343 Industries, the company responsible for the Halo franchise, has spoken out against the depiction of Quiet, a female character in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the upcoming game by iconic developer Hideo…

The 70s were a sort of golden age for martial arts in cinema. Largely due to the enduring popularity of Bruce Lee, flying kicks and karate yells became the norm. As Carl Douglas so aptly stated, everybody was kung fu fighting. And perhaps nobody…