This week, I’ve been reading through The Cult of LEGO, which has turned out to be one of the most comprehensive accounts of LEGO I’ve read to date. The authors included a lot of fun and not so fun tidbits about the history of LEGO. For example, I knew, of […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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I’ve been a fan of the Fallout franchise for some time now. I have very fond memories of exploring the desolate outskirts of Washington D.C. with my well read super mutant companion, Fawkes. In Fallout: New Vegas, I would often take pleasure in observing the rolling desert from the dinosaur […]
The recent NYMG piece on Sam’s reaction to the new Cuphead trailer has inspired a lot of reaction of its own about the game, the animation style that influenced it, and what it means to critique a trailer, and so for the purpose of further discussion and analysis, we have […]
I watched the movie Tammy last night. It stars the fabulous Melissa McCarthy, one of my favorite all-time actors. I started thinking about how amazing to see a plus-sized actress for the first time. I know, I know, there are “plus-sized” actresses and models all over the place, right? Well, […]
After years of clamoring and hoping, fans finally got confirmation of dreams come true: Square Enix is remaking the classic, fan-favorite 1997 RPG Final Fantasy VII. Such a possibility was teased as far back as E3 2005, with the PlayStation 3 tech demo, and it’s captured the fanbase’s imagination since. […]
We joked several times on the last episode of the podcast that this was going to be the year of the 4 at E3. We were all anticipating 2nds, 3rds, or 4ths of some series or another and that held up for the most part. One of the things that […]
Approximately two years ago in the wake of E3 2013 I wrote an article for the site about how I had once wanted to be a booth babe. For those who may be unfamiliar with the term, a “booth babe” is a woman, generally a model, who is hired by […]
As a LEGO fan and a gamer, I have enjoyed many of the LEGO video games, but LEGO Jurassic World has been my most anticipated LEGO video game by far. I like the superhero film franchises, like Batman well enough, and LEGO Batman 2 is thus far my all time […]
I am a sucker for a good spy story. And when those spies are also cyberpunk hackers, then all the better. So when I discovered that Invisible, Inc. is a game that features such hacker-spies, suffice it to say I was pretty excited to play it. Invisible, Inc., developed by […]
I’m not sure why I call myself such an unapologetic fan of Bethesda Softworks and all their related arms; I played Skyrim a while, but found it mostly boring, I won’t touch Elder Scrolls Online, and if you mention The Evil Within, I will set off on an hour-long rant […]
My post today comes from the conversations that have been happening around games for years, but have come to the fore again in the last couple of weeks with all of the discussion of representations of race (or a lack thereof) in CD Project Red’s The Witcher 3. We have […]
(We were asked by a friend of the site to run this personal essay, which we present here anonymously at the author’s request. Warnings for difficult subjects like sexual abuse and depression apply.) I was sexually abused at thirteen years old. The experience left me so damaged that I wasn’t able to […]
Episode 103: E3 and the Year of Fours (Right click and save as to download, or hit us up on iTunes or Stitcher). Our show was long, the news was deep, and it was late, late, late when we crept away to sleep (or to play video games after hours of […]
We all know Ceiling Cat loves watching us play games. I have my own furry mob that games along with me too: one Great Dane and two Boston Terriers. Often when I stream you can catch them scooting across the camera, wrestling, chewing on bones, and annoyingly jumping into my […]
A quick stroll through the Playstation or Xbox stores reveals the distinct lack of a once-common feature: demos. A search of the Steam store returned 15 demos released since the beginning of June, most for free but some available only for purchase. Many of these demos, however, are for games […]
One more week to go. Can you feel it? Is your body ready, Reggie Fils-Aime? Nintendo On June 14, Nintendo will stream some sort of Super Smash Bros. announcement on Twitch. What could it be? (Please let it involve an Amiibo restock.) Sony Could The Last Guardian actually show up? […]