The 4th of July is the most American holiday there can be. Unlike other crass grabs at commercialism, the 4th of July has one simple message: Even though everything is fucked up and people are dying, you need to shut up and ignore it and enjoy being an American. In that spirit, let’s say “hoo…
CASTLEVANIA: STOP WORRYING ABOUT YOUR TOYS
(THIS ARTICLE WAS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH DONATION. IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE SPECIFIC VIDEOGAMES FEATURED, YOU CAN GO HERE) In preparation for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night’s latest attempt to resurrect what some people love about Castlevania, I’ve spent the last month playing a previous attempt at the same thing. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was…
WHY DO I GOTTA KEEP BUYIN SHIT!
Advertising doesn’t seem to end now: The videogames I play or the movies I watch extend out from the media that they’re captured on. They become Forever topics of conversation. “Did you think about this [Probably Marvel Movie Thing] or did you see [X Trailer Revealed at E3]” The most harmful part of it? The…
ElfyAubrie + KrashCosplay Interview
At the start of this year, we decided we’d be getting “Back into the swing of things”. That meant I’d be abdicating responsibility to do any work in the field, and instead would force Sam Kittrel to go. Folks, he did go. He even hired a photographer to this very website. Danielle is solely responsible…
an interview with BREED
We’ve been at this comic convention thing for awhile. From the absolute excess of vendor halls, to the sweaty and tightly-packed rooms of panels; Deep-Hell is familiar. Nothing’s really changed the entire time we’ve been going to them. In fact: a staunch refusal to change at all is how we got this interview. We know…
Witness Jonathan Blow
God Bless Jonathan Blow; that is the opening statement to my lecture. MY lecture is about how important ass holes like Johnathan Blow are. Johathan Blow’s greatest contribution to videogames might be him making a 3D version of the box game a few years ago. Perhaps Johnathan Blow’s greatest contribution to videogames is Braid, the…
THE FRIENDS OF RINGO ISHIKAWA
Platform: Nintendo Switch Released: April, 2019 Publisher / Localization: CIRCLE Ent. Developer: yeo Sometimes I get really busted up about how much time I don’t have for playing videogames. The new ones that come out all want me to be the game I play forever – we’ve been doing that song and dance since 2008….
THE FAN FUSION (FAN) ZINE?
DID YOU GET A COPY? DID A FRIEND GET A COPY? If not, here it is. Every image that’s part of the zine, in obnoxiously average quality.
FATALITY
Have you ever seen a friend get injured? If you have, or if you’ve really just ever had to watch anyone get injured: you know that violence hurts to watch. The sound and sight of someone getting injured has a way of burning itself into your brain. Mortal Kombat 11 gave several members of its…