Gamer Girl Musings: Attack on Titan, Bravely Default, and More
FUNimation has announced that they will reveal the English cast for Attack on Titan in March. Fortunately, FUNimation generally has a good reputation when it comes to making high-quality English dubs, so while I’m confident that they selected good voices … Continue reading Gamer Girl Musings: Attack on Titan, Bravely Default, and More
Persona 5 and Three Other Persona Titles Heading to the West!
Rejoice everyone! For today is the day that we learned that Persona 5 is officially coming to the West! Now of course this isn’t that surprising, as game companies have a habit of wanting to make money, but it feels … Continue reading Persona 5 and Three Other Persona Titles Heading to the West!
Music to My Ears: Lorule Castle
Music to My Ears finally gives some love this week to one of the best games of 2013. Before The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds was released, I was a little hesitant, mostly because there had been so … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Lorule Castle
“Twitch Plays Pokemon:” The Zapdos Conundrum
On Saturday night, Twitch Plays Pokemon accomplished the near-impossible: the stream worked together long enough to catch a Zapdos. The group’s reaction (and my own) was tremendous. People were celebrating and throwing out capital letters like there was no tomorrow. … Continue reading “Twitch Plays Pokemon:” The Zapdos Conundrum
Why Grand Theft Auto 5’s Torture Mission is important
(Warning: some spoilers follow) Exploitative violence. Vicarious sadism. Sensationalism at its finest. These were all the first thoughts I had when, during a story mission, my character Trevor in Grand Theft Auto 5 was given a variety of different tools … Continue reading Why Grand Theft Auto 5’s Torture Mission is important
Space Jam 2 coming out soon, starring LeBron James
In 1996, a little film called Space Jam came out and forever changed the way we as fans would look at both basketball and cinema. Starring Michael Jordan in his masterpiece role, the film would go on to gross 230 … Continue reading Space Jam 2 coming out soon, starring LeBron James
Crossing Over: Video Games Meet Hollywood
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from cary at Recollections of Play for Voluntine’s Week. You should go read more things at her site because she writes interesting things and she was way more voluntiney than we were. Beyond: … Continue reading Crossing Over: Video Games Meet Hollywood
At the Buzzer (02/20/14)
Episode 120: Breaking the News — The guys tackle some extremely timely headlines, then break down a series of game show topics in the second half of the show. Also, Chris plans to pelvic thrust near Pat Sajak, Dave wants … Continue reading At the Buzzer (02/20/14)
“Twitch Plays Pokemon”: Descent into Madness
About a week ago, a new sensation started somewhat quietly on Twitch. Thanks to an IRC script that allowed commands to be relayed, viewers were treated to an interesting experience: trying to go through Pokemon Red with everyone in the … Continue reading “Twitch Plays Pokemon”: Descent into Madness
Music to My Ears: Bowser’s Lava Lake Keep
Music to My Ears continues this week with a look at a song from a game I haven’t even played yet! Woahhhhhh! “Bowser’s Lava Lake Keep” is the background music for a stage that leads to Bowser. It’s from Super … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Bowser’s Lava Lake Keep
Gray Areas 