On the other hand, a lot has changed since then. I mean, I happily subscribe to publications that are 100% based on subscriptions (a few of them of decent size!) and I support other journalists via Patreon — again, some of them basically make their living of it. Of course, it’s a matter of size — The Dissolve was very…

Holy shit. Until just now, I was still in the naive believe that it’s still holiday season on the AV Club, but that regular publishing will take up aaaaany day now. But... this is the new new, isn’t it? There’s no such thing as regular publishing any more, just slide shows and slide shows and slide shows and snarky…

That’s an interesting list, thank you!

You know, at the beginning of the month, I wondered if I had missed what can often be observed in other years: A sort of rallying around a few, often obvious heavy hitters that dominated the discourse for a while. This seemed to lack in 2021, if I’m not mistaken (the closest…

I’m out of the loop more than ever. I have only played two games this year that actually came out in 2021. Mundaun would be near the top of my list on any given year, due to its sense of style, its dense atmosphere and completely original, albeit very familiar setting to me. Axiom Verge 2, in contrast, was altogether…

Dito for The Children. Saw that one at a Fantasy Film Festival. The little brats are so nasty that the whole cinema exploded in applause after a particularly gruesome death scene of one of the little moppets. Which felt very wrong in a way, but was testament to how efficient the movie is in sticking to its premise.…

Looks fine? Less cheap, even!

I remember experiencing a bit of whiplash watching the first season. As somebody who only ever had played the games (and tried to read the books, but was repulsed by what might very well be a horrible translation), I initially wrote to a friend — Polish and well versed in Sapkowski’s work…

His line reading of “super maché” is certainly sublime.

Thanks for this article. (Which has strangely few comments? Maybe because it was buried a bit quickly on the site? May it rise again and haunt the people who put it underground. I’m ready to do my pagan of pagan rituals to get there, if somebody wants to join my coven?)

Is this the place where we can all laugh about the fact that Zuck’s vision of the “future” aka “The Metaverse” was a sub-Second-Life conversation between barely expressive plastic avatars who would have been laughed from the screen during the PS2 era? I mean, you have infinite money — why not at least try to fabricate…

I’m a bit fond of a term some friends of mine — who, like me, grew up next to a ski ressort — coined for people like him: Ski Boot People. Name thus because you could put on the heaviest, most uncomfortable par of ski boots ever, and still never feel the slightest bit of fatigue, if you were allowed to use them to…

FB2: Electric Zuckaloo.

And Detectorists. That counts for something.

Also too low: Detectorists. A show people outside of Britain didn’t seem to know about until recently (even though Arte put it up for free streaming this year, which, well was reason enough for me and a few friends to discover it). Which is a shame, really — it’s easily one of my favorite shows in, like, forever:…

Can’t say much about the Anniversary Collection, since I haven’t played it. What I did do, though, was play the games (or at least a good part of them) when they originally came out. *cougholdmanalertcough*.

Same thing here. My gf and I were interested for a while and stopped bothering once that character of the franchise became clear. (I caught up with a few movies later on on D+, but never again in the cinema.)

I wouldn’t want to chose between Terranigma and Chrono Trigger. Secret of Evermore, though, I’d have given up in a heartbeat for either one of those. (Wan’t SoE also one of those weird “we have to make a game for the Western audience, because they just don’t get Japanese games”-things?)

I only now realize that I was completely ignorant to the fact that the same Studio made Actraiser and Terranigma. Which, come to think of it, is no surprise at all. I have to admit that I did not play any of those games when they originally came out (despite being someone who grew up with the tail-end of the 8-bit…

Oh, absolutely. The Friday columns (“When Romance Met Comedy” is really equally great, even though its subject speaks a little less to me) have been one of best, if not the best thing on the AV Club for a while. Also one of the rare places left with consistently interesting and active comment threads.
I really hope…

Also, I can’t overstate how true this paragraph sound to me:

I’m totally one of those boring “Weezer was the most important band for teenage me, but I fell out of love after Maladroit”-guys. That said, I really appreciate this list, for a couple of reasons: