Once you start noticing it, you cannot stop. Turn on almost any show and count how often a character has a drink in their hand. The detective nursing whiskey while staring at a case board….
Nobody gets angry at bad menus faster than somebody raised on modern gaming. One slow-loading app, one terrible interface, one pointless popup, and suddenly the whole thing feels exhausting. Years of Steam libraries, Twitch streams,…
The gaming industry is never static, but leadership changes at the highest levels of a platform holder can send shockwaves through the entire ecosystem. Microsoft Gaming’s latest leadership change is one of the most significant…
Some launches arrive quietly. Then there are launches that land like an event, timed, choreographed, and built to travel through group chats at full speed. The final season of Stranger Things showed what happens when…
Why is it so compelling to watch a character fail over and over again? When a show forces its protagonist into a time loop or a rigidly repetitive existence, it creates a unique kind of…
A while back I wrote an article on some of the best acting performances by Christian Bale. Among them was his performance in this week’s movie recommendation: Metroland. I actually recommended this back in September…
I was obsessed with LEGOs as a kid, but as it turns out, it’s not a hobby you have to necssarily grow out of. With enough talent, you can create some LEGO sets that are pretty damn…
For some reason I don’t think the movie Victory really got the credit it deserved. I don’t know. It was made back in 1981, had some pretty prominent named actors and the premise was awesome. …
I think we are at a point in the evolution of video games where it isn’t hard to tell what games are going to be successful and which ones are going to fail. Much like pop radio, the stuff…