More than twenty years after the first movie was released, it’s strange to recall that Austin Powers was once a staggeringly popular franchise. These days, we tend to think of the unfrozen secr...
The unspoken assumption at the end of 2019 is that everyone is connected all the time. The stream of personal information up and content down flows uninterrupted, without caveats. There are no bottlen...
Whether you’ve just acquired your very first Xbox, or you’ve been with the brand since MechAssault, everyone that sets foot into Microsoft’s X-based ecosystem will have to come up with an Xbo...
The new World order are going into the WWE Hall of Fame this year, and while the company is limiting the group to its three founding members, I’d like to believe that the lack of a physical building f...
Whenever I fall in love with a game, I always find myself wishing for more. More adventures, more character interaction, more everything. Fanfiction and art can step in here, but sometimes the Video G...
It’s pretty obvious the Galar Region of Pokemon Sword & Shield is based on jolly ol’ Britannia. From the countryside of Postwick, all the way up to Wyndon, the linear map might not...
When it comes to pro wrestling, I almost never feel motivated to watch classics I haven’t seen before. I blame this on how much new wrestling is happening all the time and that like half the reason I...
Once confined to fighting game communities and action titles, the concept of tier lists has at this point achieved meme status. You’ve probably seen one online in the past week, whether it’s ranking <...
For a game that swears up and down that nobody in its universe is queer, how is it that every time I hang out with one of my male friends in Persona 5 Royal things just seem…gay?
In March 1999, The Matrix was released to critical acclaim and commercial success. A month later, David Cronenberg released eXistenZ. The film begins similarly to the Wa...
My Druid and Paladin both had kids, so they’re basically out, and I can’t run a game with just a Warlock and a Wizard, that’s ridiculous. I moved away from Chicago anyway so the superhero team of Bobb...
Final Fantasy VII Remake is not a self-insert RPG, but that didn’t stop me from finding some of its very heteronormative scenarios and dialogue off-putting.
Sonic the Hedgehog has an interesting musical history: the original Genesis titles were vibrant and memorable, Sonic X’s English dub theme song originated the memetic “Gotta go fast” line, and...
Kim Kitsuragi is not the protagonist of Disco Elysium, and for that he is more or less a living saint. A middle-aged, no-nonsense cop in Coke bottle glasses and a sweet orange bomber jacket, he...
There are a lot of reasons why The Great British Baking Show is one of the most beloved cooking competition shows ever to hit television. Pretty much every contestant is adorably likable, the s...
The first time I was invaded in Dark Souls was right before my third boss. Fog walls appeared closing off the route back to safety, and then a message notified me that a dark spirit had invaded...
In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that I would be writing this, because one of the first decisions we see Hop, the rival trainer of Pokemon: Sword & Shield make is choosing the starte...
Monstrous women are nothing new to video games, and neither is being madly in love with them. I mean, come on! What’s not to love? There really is a ghoulish girl out there for everyone these days. Bu...
Roaming the Appalachian wasteland, Mr Fuzzy in tow, Diechan132 cuts an unusual figure. It’s not every day, for instance, that you see a person taking a 500-pound yao guai out for a walk like they’re a...
Video games love vore. This fact has seemingly gone without mention for decades but the evidence is everywhere. Why have there been so many levels in games that put the player inside of another’s body...
