I deny this, categorically

I liked Breath of the Wild because it understood play. While it borrows from its own past and the derided “map” genre, where Zelda really excels in the way it borrows from Minecraft, letting most of the game spiral out beautifully from basic functions and systems that work well together, oftentimes in surprising and…

Fire Pro Wrestling World is to me, if not GOTY, certainly a game that needs a lot more love. I’ve seen next to no critical chat about it, and while it’s technically Early Access that didn’t stop PUBG from getting a ton of buzz. Maybe it’s just that wrestling games are a niche, but this is still a remarkable…

I liked Breath of the Wild because it stepped back and gave me space to explore its world on my own terms. In a typical open-world game, your map gets filled up with icons for you to visit, which has the subtle effect of dictating to you what’s important (and what’s not) on the map. This emphasis shifts the way I…

I have a handful of older PC titles (Diablo, Max Payne, KOTOR, Jade Empire), but I haven’t played any consoles since college. The first moments of Breath of the Wild made me feel like a 13 year old playing Ocarina of Time for the first time, and it has sustained that feeling for over 300 hours now. And I might burn a…

Beautifully said! It’s hard to describe how the game makes me feel, and it’s part of why I won’t blame anyone for having issues with it. I could put together a long list of small-to-big complaints about the game, but the moment you leave the shrine of resurrection and see Hyrule sprawling out before you, they all just…

Believe it or not, I finally returned to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time this year, having realized that I never came close to beating it as an ADD-addled 13-year-old without the patience to see anything through.

Breath of the Wild was such a beautiful, engrossing videogame. I bought the Switch after not playing a single video game in nearly six years, and bought it only to play Zelda. That game, above all else, taught this old fool what it feels like to be a kid again.

So they added a free versus mode to Mario + Rabbids and I’ll probably play some Divinity: Original Sin with the hubby, but my weekend is all about that sweet Breath of the Wild DLC. I hope it’s worth the wait and cost. I love it when Nintendo announces something than tells us it’s available immediately. It’s such a…

This was an astonishingly good year for video games, if not always the culture around them. The best games were confident, experimental, thoughtful, surprising, and entirely sincere. Wolfenstein II had a deranged vision about the horrors of American Nazism and what was needed to fight it, but it was also one it fully…

For me, I was heavily depressed and suffered anxiety before taking medication.

I finally finished Mass Effect: Andromeda, and I’m in the process of finishing my article on it. In the end, while it was mostly a banal experience that indulged in some of the absolute worst tropes of open world design, and the writing was poor in general, I also ended up liking some of the characters (most of my…

Great news! I’ve joined the Nintendo Switch club! Terrible news! It’ll remain unopened until December 25th! Bought that and Mario Odyssey yesterday, getting everyone that was going to buy you a gift to pitch in really is the way to go when getting a new system with a baby on the way. So now my goal is to finish as…

Yeah, I really enj-BANG!

I loved Season 11. Thrilled.

Imagine that George Lucas comes into your meeting while you’re working on the next big Star Wars game. Your team wants to add a Sith character to the game. George gives you two names to chose from: “Darth Icky” or “Darth Insanius”. He’s not joking. Choose wisely. Google it.

I don’t understand her point at all...is she upset people are saying there is nudity and sex scenes in Game of Thrones? Because there is, and at times the nudity serves no plot purpose whatsoever - that’s undeniable. I mean sure you had that one scene where Podrick bangs like six girls but you had to have that scene…

that’s great, but she did tell us how to date Natalie Dormer?

It’s saying, “click me.”

Nah dude, steal my thunder all you want. No harm done. It’s nice not to have to think of a new prompt every week.