PopCultureShock & A!PoN team up to talk to director Shusuke Kaneko about the making of the live-action Death Note films.

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Bioshock is one of the biggest games to release this year. PCS TV recently had the opportunity to speak with Ken Levine, co-founder and Creative Director of Irrational Games (now 2K Boston) to see what’s really going on with the title. Levine discusses what sets the title away from the gamut of other First Person Shooters out there, tells us about how they’ve applied their trademark immersive gameplay and storylines and a number of other topics.

This is the Bioshock interview, with Ken Levine.

During Wizard World Philadelphia, PopCultureShock’s resident webmonkey Jon Haehnle and I caught up with David Mack and got the details on his new children’s book, The Shy Creatures. The book was incorporated in volume seven of his acclaimed comic series, Kabuki, and is scheduled for release today.

Peter Molyneux is from the old guard. As a designer of videogames for over 20 years, he’s in a league of few and has a pedigree of innovation. That track record has seen him take huge risks all for the sake of pushing the art form. We spoke to Peter recently about Fable 2 as well as some of his previous works, Fable and Black & White, to find out exactly how his latest work is the culmination of all he has done before. To hear a candid talk on topics including but not limited to what happened with Fable and how he and his team look to rectify that with Fable 2, look no further.

This is the Fable 2 interview, with Peter Molyneux.

Bryan Lee O’Malley, writer of the awesome Scott Pilgrim graphic novels (the fourth one’s out in a month!), talks about video games, his first comic Lost at Sea, and of course, Scott Pilgrim. And he knows the Konami code, unlike, say, some of our staffers.

Here’s the irrascible Evan Dorkin talking about his current work (he seems to be doing a lot right now). Kiddies beware, as there is not a small amount of cursing here (he also calls me an anti-Semite, but lovingly).

And here’s Evan Dorkin making fun of super-heroes, but really, he totally loves them. Totally loves them.

Rick Spears talks about all his current work (and it’s a lot) as well as all the stuff coming out of his Gigantic Graphic Novels publishing house. And thanks to Rick for doing this interview twice after I had some technical difficulties.

Andy Runton (possibly the nicest man in comics) talks about Owly, the cutest little owl in the world, the genesis of the idea, and kids’ comics in general. Also, super huge big thanks to Andy, as he was super nice and did this interview three times because I don’t know how to use a bloody camera or sound equipment.

Comic Foundry founder and editor-in-chief talks about why Comic Foundry even exists, why it’s going to be better than both Wizard and The Comics Journal. Also, that whole pesky Diamond business.

And my sister writes for this, so you will buy at least the first issue and give it a try. Then you can make up your own mind about it.

Tania Del Rio, artist and writer on Archie’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch, talks about moving to the west coast, her autobiographical webcomic My Poorly Drawn Life, and all her other current work (man, these indy guys sure do get a lot of work done). Her Dollar Dreadfuls are frakking awesome!