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. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …