Film: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
On the spectrum of D&D fandom, I’m somewhere in the middle: enough history with the game to remember it fondly, but not so much that it’s baked into my DNA. …
TV: The Last of Us (Season 1)
I played the PS4 game The Last of Us just long enough to come to two conclusions: one, that its violent, unsettling action would be way too difficult and terrifying …
Film: Free Guy
Say what you will about Free Guy (2021), it’s certainly specific. Indeed, part of the fun is imagining how incomprehensible its gaming details might appear to your past self, and …
TV: Arcane (Season 1)
Given what I’ve come to expect from video game adaptations, nothing short of intense critical buzz would have made me go out of my way for Netflix’s new animated release …
Video Game: Final Fantasy VII Remake
I’m a pretty lousy video gamer, especially when it comes to open-world games. Years of World of Warcraft addiction exhausted that hobby right out of my system. This kind of …
Video Game: Overcooked
So, oddly, I have to write about this game called Overcooked. It’s a video game about cooking. Yes, cooking. You choose silly little avatars and run around poorly designed kitchens, …
Video Game: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
The Uncharted video games are among the medium’s most cinematic experiences, and with the upgrade to the PlayStation 4, this has never been more true. I tend to find long-form …
Video Game: Star Wars Battlefront
Given the limited number of available PlayStation 4 titles of interest, it seems inevitable we’d end up with a copy of Star Wars Battlefront. In the wake of Star Wars: …
Postapalooza II
The drawback to reviewing virtually everything: it’s almost inevitable you’ll fall behind. So far, the blog hasn’t been as verbose as usual in 2014, which I chalk up to a …
Novel: You by Austin Grossman
Austin Grossman’s You (2013) was a bookstore impulse purchase, and I’m so glad I snagged it. This one looks at the history of video gaming through a fictional lens, and …
PS3 Games
As part of our general household streamlining last month, I traded in a bunch of old games for store credit* and brought home a couple of fresh titles. Jenn and …
Gaming Sequels
Part of my extended blogging break involved playing some new video games, and an old one. First up is Portal 2, which I bought Jenn for her birthday. We …
Video Game: Civilization V
Several years ago I played an earlier iteration of the Civilization series on my old PC. I loved it, but it kept crashing my computer and I drifted away from …
Video Gamery
I rang in the holiday season with two new video games. First, NHL 11, the latest installment in EA Sports’ classic line of hockey simulations. This series goes back to 1994 …
Midpoints & Mini-Vacations
Today is the midpoint of a (glorious!) five-day weekend. It occurred to me recently that I’d gone the whole of 2010 without taking more than four days off in a …
Catching Up
I just noticed I’m on pace for my least productive blogging month since I launched this site two Januarys ago. I think part of it has to do with the …