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  • Sonic Series Retrospective Part 5: Call to Adventure

    The Dreamcast was the swan song of Sega’s time as console developer. Anyone who had the opportunity to use the thing as child would tell you how ambitious the console was, as the first console with internet connectivity, using a controller that was effectively the Wii U Gamepad long before the Wii U would be Read more

  • The Problem with Elden Ring

    The Problem with Elden Ring

    On February 25th, 2022, Elden Ring was released. Elden Ring is an open world RPG developed by From Software, the developer of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. The style of game that this developer has created is coined now as ‘Souls like’. Souls like games throw the player at near impossible hard bosses where dodging, Read more

  • Why do we tell stories? And who needs heroes? Gilgamesh, Snow White, and Superman

    It’s not uncommon to hear about moviegoers experiencing superhero fatigue right now. That makes sense, given the constant deluge of Marvel content and DC’s varying attempts to replicate that success. So why the hell do we make so many of these movies anyway? Maybe it’s the spectacle of it and the insane backlog of adaptable Read more

  • Sonic Series Retrospective, Part Four: An Era of Spinoffs

    Just as with any other mascot, success leads to one inevitability: merchandising. With recognizability, a character gains the ability to sell anything their face can reasonably appear on, and the snide blue hedgehog would quickly join Mario in the quest to do just that. it was at about this point in the series that Sonic Read more

  • The Esports Report: March 2023

    Welcome to the Esports Report; a new monthly article series where I’ll be going over the biggest tournaments, events and leagues from the major esports titles each month. In our first report of the series here are the titles that’ll be covered this month: PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege and DOTA 2. Followed by a list Read more

  • A Multiverse of Betas and Patches

    A Multiverse of Betas and Patches

    The Warner Brothers crossover platform fighter that won an award at last year’s Game Awards? Great. While I had a few issues with the gameplay, I generally found it to be a fun enough game with a mostly good roster (picking Taz instead of Wile E. Coyote was a waste though). After the game went Read more