Where Does Nintendo Go from Here?
The Nintendo 3DS has slowly trudged its way back uphill thanks to a desperate price cut and building a slow momentum of quality titles. While the Wii U could eventually end up in a similar…
What an Open World Could Mean for the Zelda Series
Nintendo games are a bit like Mom’s cooking. You can criticize it behind their back all you want, but as soon as you smell something familiar cooking up, your mouth inevitably starts to water. Case…
Five Underrated Van Damme Kick Flicks
America might be feeling a bit hostile towards Belgium after they knocked us out of the World Cup, but never forget that besides waffles, fries, and damn good beer, they also offer one of…
Peripheral Vision: Super Game Boy, GB Hunter, and Game Boy Player
Video game marketing can be weird. At one point, a company like Nintendo will have to hard-sell a trimmed-down, handheld version of their extremely popular home console. They’ll claim “it’s just as good as…
Why Big Trouble in Little China is the Most Fun Movie Ever Made
Scores of cult films are pleasing to watch for all the wrong reasons. Like so many reality TV producers have figured out, everyone loves witnessing a good train wreck. Whether because of a…
Seven of the Best Geeky Kid’s Meal Toys
Kid’s meals: they make childhood diabetes and obesity fun! Including a cheap, Chinese-made trinket in a Happy Meal was a brilliant stroke by McDonald’s in 1979 (no pun intended). Not only did the ploy…
Why Tool-Assisted Speedruns Have a Right to Exist
A tool-assisted speedrun of a video game (TAS for short) means that the player edited together a video of them beating a game with the use of scripted inputs and an emulator, which is a…
Nine Animated Character Voices That Are Actually Impressions
Some exceptional actors, such as Michael Caine, can portray hundreds of varied characters all while using their own, natural speaking voice. Voice actors don’t have this luxury. Unless you’re sought after for one style of…
Six Lessons the 2014 Robocop Should Have Learned from the Original
The 2014 Robocop remake sucked. Wow, I bet you didn’t see that one coming! Picking on a corporate-driven remake is like picking on the kid in school with chronic gas; they can’t help it if…