I feel like something a bit weird is happening with The Last of Us on HBO, which seems like it’s on a mission in its promotion to project a message of “see, games can have real stories and video game adaptations can be good .” Here’s writer Craig Mazin, who I love, but he’s being
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Horizon Forbidden West got nominated for quite a few Game Awards this past year, but was shut out of all categories, oftentimes by its PlayStation rival, God of War Ragnarok, which is not a huge surprise. However, Horizon Forbidden West just won a yearly award that I’d probably argue should be a category at The
For a good long while, I have praised Marvel Snap as being a welcome alternative to other digital CCGs like Hearthstone which rely on buying packs and gambling odds for legendaries to make key decks. For a while, Marvel Snap rewarded pure progression, logging in, playing, doing challenges, and you would fill out your cards
Like much of the Destiny 2 community, I remain deeply confused about what’s going on with Bungie’s marketing strategy this year, in that it more or less does not have one when it comes to the seasons that are supposed to sustain it between major expansion releases. For the third season in a row now
Netflix, yet again, seems to have made a significant misstep with content greenlighting, this time with Blockbuster, a new comedy meant to capture the nostalgia of millennials. Yes, we are talking about Blockbuster Video, the famous US chain of video rentals that was dismantled top to bottom when Netflix arrived on the scene, first with…
Activision has just announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has annihilated every Call of Duty before it. Modern Warfare 2 has sold $800 million worth of copies in just its first three days of release, beating out Modern Warfare 3 in 2011 (yes, the naming order gets complicated with these). MW3 previously had…
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has claimed its first casualty within my gaming-based circle. Citing in part Musk’s actions since he took power, prolific video game news source Nibel ( @Nibellion ) has announced they are leaving Twitter and locking their account. With 447,000 followers, that’s more than any individual games journalist I know and…
Netflix is certainly pretty hit or miss with whatever comes racing up or down its Top 10 lists these days, but every so often they get it just right. That’s certainly the case with Cabinet of Curiosities , the Guillermo del Toro passion project that features eight directors adapting eight different horror stories in individual…
The Rings of Power is more than halfway through its first season now, and has been the subject of debate among fans for various reasons. Thankfully, we seem to be mostly moved past the “black dwarves?? Women warrior elves??” initial controversies that held absolutely no weight. But what’s left is now to discuss the actual…
While the introduction of crafting in Destiny 2 was supposed to be a counter to fight the RNG of random rolls, the past three seasons it’s simply turned into a different sort of battle against RNG for players, the struggle to five red Deepsight patterns to be able to craft a weapon. In theory, it’s…