Watching Netflix’s biggest late sleeper hit of 2021 comes with some caveats: do you like musicals? Do you think Andrew Garfield’s indefatigable charisma carries everything he’s in? Do you like Rent and the history of its creation? If all of these result in a resolute and affable “yes!” then…

During the early weeks of December 2021, I started to notice that my work emails had suddenly acquired an oddly archaic feel to them. It was as if I’d become some airy old scholar unfamiliar with the expected brevity of professionalism. I wondered if my coworkers read them and…

Mamoru Hosada, the acclaimed director behind Wolf Children and Mirai is back with a wonderful new cinematic creation: Belle. Released stateside January 14th of 2022, Belle is a masterful work of animation about self acceptance and empathy. The movie itself is getting largely positive reviews (save a few caveats) from…

Letting go of the past to appreciate the present — We all know what it feels like to forget to save. Before we had cloud and digital services, there were the blocky cartridge inserts of the Nintendo 64-era and the eventual disc drives of PlayStation 2 and GameCube consoles. There was a physicality to gaming back then, an aspect of…

There was a moment in 2017’s Nier: Automata where I realized you could kill the enemies of the game without any provocation. That I could enter a village of harmless little machines and murder them all should I choose to. I could even get a trophy for it! That I…

If you don’t know what League of Legends is don’t worry — Netflix’s new animated series Arcane can be enjoyed whether you play the game it’s based on or not. Look Out For Yourself League of Legends is, er, legendary in the gaming community for many, many reasons. It’s one of the biggest games…

The date is December 7th, 2021. It’s a few weeks before Christmas but you’ve already gotten an early present: acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV’s (henceforth referred to as “FFXIV”) newest expansion, Endwalker. After a two week delay it’s finally in your hands, playable and complete, and you watch the splash…

*Spoilers for all episodes of Netflix’s Midnight Mass* To fans of Hill House and Bly Manor, Midnight Mass might seem like the less frightful option. It is the least scream-aloud scary entry in Mike Flanagan’s Netflix horror anthology. Where the focus of the former shows was on estates tied to…

Hi, I’m Big Mad over Bloomberg’s recent opinion piece How Gaming Will Change Humanity As We Know It, because I gotta be honest with you — reading it was an exploration of personal patience. I’m aware it’s an opinion piece, perhaps one seeking to find people like me who get…