I want to give this game a shot, warts and all, but it does not seem to be appearing on the Playstation store despite web articles claiming it’s out. Anyone know what’s up?

That...does look at lot like an Alien game. Any word on the gameplay? Isolation was not my cup of tea.

We’re being asked to put public health above our personal needs. It sucks. But every time you make a choice that priorities your own needs, you’re increasing the risk not only for yourself but everyone you are still coming into contact with, including a lot of service employees at the grocery store and other essential…

Nope. I had just started dating someone new when social distancing went into effect. And we hadn’t gotten beyond meeting in public places, although I think (I hope) that things were about to escalate.

I took a sick-day for non-COVID reasons, and it was the best decision I’ve made since all of this started. No cough, but I am sleeping (or fantasizing about sleep) basically all of the time.

You are making me feel super fucking old, because I played FF6 in middle-school (and called it FF3), but that game has charm to burn. The amount of expression that they manage to squeeze out of those little sprites is still impressive, and the opening sequence has that wintery melancholy that lingers even when the…

They should release a game that is all crash mode and call it Burnout 2020. I would buy that shit at warp speed.

When it came out, the wilderness sequences felt like a breakthrough for the series, a preview of the wide open maps of the later games. And I also liked the miniature democracy that formed at your base of operations, a more inclusive version of the larger nation forming around you. It seemed like a way to comment on…

I just reached the Marauder boss in Doom Eternal. Instead of clearing my mind, achieving the Dark Souls Zen State, and prevailing over time, I yawned and turned it off. A tricky boss at least needs some fucking charm, you know.

I subscribe to it. The library changes from month to month as the curated collections rotate through (lately they have a pile of film noir, a massive tribute to Toshiro Mifune, and other series devoted to directors and stars), but there is always more than I can get through, with a pretty diverse range of material.…

It has been six weeks since I had a non-digital conversation with a human being who wasn’t selling me food. Perhaps for that reason, the leisurely pacing of the FFVII Remake is really working for me. If it weren’t for social distancing, I have a creeping suspicion that the game’s goofball crowd patter and…

The story here reminded me of Rebuild of Evangelion, another remake that lets its characters struggle against the original plot. Both FFVII and Evangelion belong to roughly the same formative moment in nerd culture, and the creators have chosen to recreate that experience in a way that makes nostalgia and anticipation…

I was thinking about this film while I was reading through this (excellent) list. Lead or not, Josephine Siao walks away with that movie. 

Now this is the kind of videogame coverage I didn’t know I needed, that doesn’t shy away from the personal experience of playing games but also gives the rest of us a way into that feeling. It makes me want to fire up the game to see what it makes me feel.

All these poor bastards watching Rise of the Skywalker when Uncut Gems and Little Women are right there. That said, I would totally watch an adaptation where Jo gets a lightsaber, but mostly because Amy would be super jealous.

The moral of Little Women is to vaccinate your children.

Idk, it just reminds me of when my AP Lit teacher told the class that we couldn’t do our research papers on Harry Potter because it wasn’t a book of literary merit? Like, cool, one just because it’s a children’s book doesn’t mean it doesn’t have merit? Also, I think I could infer on my own that the book I pick for an…

WOW. I’m shocked by all this in part because I am a huge fan of Sarah Dessen... so I know that statement is absolutely true.

I really liked the style of Diablo III. But I understand I might be the only person on earth who feels that way.

Does it have Monkey Target? That is all I need to know.