Cinema’s Influence on Video Games

With the release of a real life Sonic the Hedgehog movie, I was presented with the task of coming up with the most cinematic video games for a Film and Gaming section cross post. When thinking about this topic, however,…

SMASH BROS CONFIRMED | What the D-Pad Gaming News Podcast #21

Welcome back to another installment of What the D-Pad, the weekly gaming podcast on Twitch.tv/TYFOfficial on every Wednesday or Thursday where we play a trending or topical game and discuss current news that I found on Twitter or Google News. Travis already…

Retro-Graded Games: ‘Dark Souls’ Five Years Later

  It’s hard to believe it’s already been half a decade since our first visits to Lordran during the last days of the Age of Fire. 60 months since we first endured the sadism of game director Hidetaka Miyazaki, and…

Video Game Review: “Dark Souls 3”

Cycles and disparity. When you get right down to it, that’s ultimately what the “Dark Souls” series is about. Darkness and fire. Despair and triumph. Life and death (and with these games, significantly more of the latter). While they’re known…