Whenever there’s a sale on the PlayStation Store I tend to check it out. They’ve usually got some great steals, and even new games can be heavily discounted. I find I discover pretty fun games this way, taking chances I wouldn’t normally take when dishing out cash for a game, and so slowly my backlog is growing into a nice repository for a rainy day.

It was why I picked up Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, Unity, and Syndicate bundled together for a mere $22. What a steal! I’d never played an Assassin’s Creed game before, mostly because I once found…

My roommate and I were just about to sit down to dinner — and to check out Tribes of Europa — when the trailer for B: The Beginning starting playing on my idle Netflix. Okay, I had just watched a few episodes a while ago, sounds about right, so I picked up the remote to change it and realized it was listed under the “Coming Soon” section and the scenes on the screen were not at all familiar to me. I nearly dropped the remote! I love the original show. I had been trying to learn about updates for the…

“The moment you’ve accepted things as they are you don’t need to hope anymore, because you realize that where you are is kind of okay.” — Jason Louv

For the past year, on and off, I’ve been trying to finish The Midnight Gospel. I’m not familiar with the podcast these series of episodes are animating, nor am I overly familiar with Adventure Time, which is the brain child of Pendleton Ward, who works as a writer on this series. I didn’t know who Duncan Trussell was prior to this and had only the colorful and trippy trailer to base my…

I really love interesting movies. I love offbeat, stylized, and absolutely zany stories, so I figured I’d share a few films that I’ve immensely enjoyed recently. Some are cute and light, some heavy and contemplative, others just delightfully trippy. All of them visual treats.

This list won’t include the more well-known releases of the past few years — and of course no Ghibli, simply because we already know how wonderful all of those are. I also won’t have my personal favorites such as The Boy and the Beast, Wolf Children, and Summer Wars on here because they are all directed…

There’s a plethora of manga available on Viz’s shonen jump website, all of it accessible for just $2 a month! This isn’t a plug (at least not one I’m getting paid for…), I just find that having a subscription for manga actually increases the amount of time I spend reading the stories they have available instead of scouring the internet for free manga and feeling the creeping guilt that I am trespassing in a morally grey bay of piracy. I don’t like that feeling! So, I sub to Viz and get my fix for all the new and old manga…

When I moved to Honolulu the first thing I did was get a library card. Before finalizing my change of address, before buying most of my furniture (although, given I was in a partly furnished studio, this wasn’t a huge issue), before looking into getting a bus pass or doing most of the those other relatively normal settling procedures — I went to the library.

Hawaiʻi’s library system is state-wide, which makes sense given it’s geographical location, but I was used to the county-contained systems of my Jersey roots. I was also used to the relatively large, sprawling libraries that…

You like smooth beats? Me too.

I picked up Persona 5: Royal during the Holiday sale that the PS store is currently having (until 1/19/21, so here’s a chance for you to get it too!) and I’ve been definitely enjoying it so far. I was hesitant at first to literally re-buy the same game I already had, but seeing as how I hadn’t even come close to finishing the original, and how much new content it has, I figured I could see it all the way through this time with its new bells and whistles.

When Persona 5 first came…

[This article contains spoilers for the entirety of Nier: Automata.]

When I first entered the area of the Copied City in Nier: Automata I was transfixed by the visual story it told. You walk in to the light touch of piano, you see the city streets unfurl as pure white facades and delicately detailed spires, balconies, windows. It felt like walking through a dream. Being set in the far future this game’s cities up until this point have all been broken, shattered skeletons sitting in heaps in the over world, cracked and overgrown with greenery. But seeing one so beautifully…