It is not difficult to get me to root against law enforcement and the entrenched systems that left thousand of GWoT era vets with their ass out in the wind. It is more difficult to get me to root for an escaped convict who replaces his natural born family unit with a shake-and-bake family who really ought…
I know mobile games have a reputation for being attention-destroying Skinner Boxes. Slot machines wearing paper mustaches that are always teasing the user towards one more pull. Except instead of financial enrichment you are usually chasing a .jpg of your favorite characters in new costumes, often scantily clad. Heroes of fantasy and fiction, wearing swimwear…
After the Nintendo Direct on June 10th, Nintendo spent a good deal of time with the upcoming remake of Starfox 64, now simply titled Star Fox. While the House Mario Built points specifically to 64, this is actually the 5th retelling of the scenario originally told in the initial release of Star Fox on the…
It had been a long day. I was tired. I was hungry. I was trapped at work without a vehicle available to me. I’m not making excuses. I’m not trying to make you feel sorry for me. I’m just trying to make you understand what would make man order the KFC x Supergirl Ultimate Tenders…
I have a long standing obsession with RPGs and vampire stories. For my money, one of the greatest games of the turn of the century was Troika Games’ messy, but beloved, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. A quarter-of-a-century later, the art collective ZA/UM would release Disco Elysium, a role-playing game that was not only one of…
The next thing from Bungie. That was all I understood as I plugged my info into the sign-up website for the Alpha. It was the summer of 2014. I was 24 years old, a year into the relationship that would eventually evolve into my marriage. I was working as a photo-journalist for a local news…
Early in Mortal Kombat II, Karl Urban’s washed up 90’s star Johnny Cage tells a mildly enthused fan that no one wants to see actors doing karate poses anymore. That the world has moved on to grittier, more violent and grounded action films such as Keanu Reeve’s John Wick. As strange as it feels for…
I took this picture of a deer. I followed this deer for a number of days. I have been carrying a Sony DCS-WX100 for a few weeks now. I enjoy the idea that I am giving new life to old tech, and also the ability to just pull it out of my pocket whenever I…
