The days after Christmas, December 25, aren’t really a part of the year, and they aren’t really a part of next year, either. Maybe they’re the days just there at the end of the calendar to ride out holiday hangovers. Maybe, they’re the space for sitting in bed too afraid to go outside. Wishing you’d…
Streets of New York, Streets of Gotham
Where are you from? Maybe it’s just part of my generation and our anxiety, but I feel defined by where I’m from to the point it’s getting hard to relate it to people as I get older. There’s probably a dead guy with a good book about collective experience being tied to where we’re from….
Fallout 76
That’s a quote from Polygon.com’s recent article about, of all things, Fallout 76. Maybe somewhere that quote should be printed out, framed, and hung in an office. Everyone who walks in that specific office that wants to take part in the time honored tradition of writing about videogames has to read that quote, over and…
ARTICLES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
This is basically the clip show version of updating a website, huh. Laugh with friends over all the good memories – cue credits. GEORGE ROMERO’S DARK SOULS – A look at the mechanic of death and rebirth in Dark Souls, just after George Romero’s passing. PERSONA (SOCIAL SIMULATOR?) – A look at the…
It’s Videogame: GOD OF WAR
I have a dad, and unless you have dead parents or are a dad, maybe you have one too. God of War is a game about fatherhood and dad-core and because of that is basically impossible to write about without referencing other popular works about dads or the limited number of dad-core videogames. I have…
a brief anecdote
On his deathbed, the one time-CEO of SEGA wavered a loan repayment worth millions of dollars of his own money that he’d once given to the company to keep it afloat. Isao Okawa had a deep passion for SEGA, and in his final moments did the company a second favor to ensure it would pass…
PERSONA (SOCIAL SIMULATOR?)
I came to Persona when I finally went out of my way to get my greasy teenaged hands on a copy of Persona 3 FES in 2013. Persona is a satellite of the Japanese occult role-playing-game series Shin Megami Tensei. Us Americans tend to very sparsely mention the full title of any of these games…
DEMON’S SOULS
DISCLAIMER: On February 28th, 2018, the servers to From Software’s Demon’s Souls will be going offline permanently. In a way, this is something like a eulogy for the game that helped change the way video games are talked about today. I can give a glowing recommendation to play Demon’s Souls if you’ve never experienced…
No Inventory Space
Part of being an adult is knowing when to do the dishes or how to iron a tie. If someone has an appointment with you they should see you when they get there, not wait around for you to arrive. Managing the space you live in and getting your life in order so you can…