As a kid, the NES was my core gaming platform. Sadly, my parents really didn’t go for the 16-bit console era, but they did have this glorious tower that would become my new gaming platform, and cue the fabled green text of DOS on the PC. I started with Flight Sims, but they were all
This Tuesday, A District of Columbia court of appeals ruled against certain key elements of “net neutrality.” The court opinion takes a bit of reading, but can be summed up thusly: That said, even though the Commission has general authority to regulate in this arena, it may not impose requirements that contravene express statutory mandates.
Yasumi Matsuno – creator of the classic video games Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre and Vagrant Story – has started a Kickstarter page with the company Playdek to fund a new RPG. Called Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians, the game is described as a “spiritual successor in a storied line of epic tactical RPGs designed by Yasumi Matsuno.”
With the latest Jack Ryan movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, staring Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightly, and Kenneth Branagh, who also directed, comes a fast-paced action movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat. This isn’t the Jack Ryan we’ve seen before. With the Cold War long gone and new terror always on the
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Well it was bound to happen again, the return of Nicolas Cage! This week in Movie Issues HQ we watched the 2011 action flick Drive Angry. We watch Nic Cage play a man who has escaped hell to save his grand-daughter before
Nerd culture may be the current zeitgeist, but there is still one major pastime of nerds everywhere that’s gotten short shrift – tabletop gaming. Just the phrase conjures images of geeks with huge glasses sitting in a dark basement playing Dungeons & Dragons. This is, of course, inaccurate and unfair. Even less known than tabletop
I’ve heard it said that the problem with writing science-fiction mysteries is that you have aliens or devices that don’t conform to all the rules of our world, but there still has to be a strong internal logic to the story. Otherwise the mystery doesn’t make sense; there isn’t a puzzle that can be revealed
Animation has always been a part of modern culture. It pushes the limits of film and story telling with thousands of hand drawn images falling in perfect secession in front of a camera and capturing the imagination of both young and old. The world wouldn’t be the same without animation, and animation wouldn’t be the same without
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Anthony’s getting a new car! To celebrate, the podcast crew talks about their favorite geek cars: which prop car would you want to drive off the set, and which fantasy car would you have if it was a real thing? Along the