It’s the holiday season, and everyone’s gearing up to celebrate. Games are as well, and Overwatch is trying out its own first holiday event called “Winter Wonderland.” If you recall my first piece for this site, I was a…
Why Star Wars Needs To Be Political
There are very few things in my childhood that I remember as vividly as watching the opening to A New Hope. The scene is a near perfect example of how to world build by simply allowing that world to exist.…
Video Game Review: Pokémon Sun and Moon
Welcome, finally, to the World of Pokémon. Pokémon Red starts with a short cinematic battle and a title screen. A few of the creatures waiting inside scroll past the screen, prompting the pressing of the Start button. Selecting new game…
Video Game Review: Paper Mario: Color Splash
The game is colorful, at least. If you’re not up to date with the goings on among the Nintendo faithful, this might come as a shock, but Nintendo kind of has a Mario problem. Or, rather, a Paper Mario problem.…
The New DLC for ‘Party Hard’ Might Be Too Hard
Party Hard is a arcade style, low-poly game about murdering your loud neighbors. Yeah, video games are weird. Party Hard was actually released in 2015, but we were able to take a look at the game’s newest ‘Party Harder’ update…
When Music Dominated Games: Guitar Hero II Ten Years Later
Believe it or not, it has been ten years now since the release of Guitar Hero II, a game in which people live out their rock star dreams using Fischer-Price toys. If you’re in your mid-twenties like me, you probably…
Video Game Review: Battlefield 1
Well, didn’t see this coming. Not literally, of course. Anyone with a tangential following of the AAA game market saw and heard Battlefield 1 coming from months away, with its bombastic announcement trailer set to a techno-remix of The…
