David Shimomura

The Game Take is the Worst Take

• October 2nd, 2017

It’s hard to watch sites pat themselves on the back super hard for only the tip of the iceberg.

A series of fake captions arranged across a background. The largest and most legible read: "HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE AGE OF XBOX ONE", "HOW HURRICANE VICTIMS ARE HURTINGS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T PLAY OVERWATCH", GAMES AND OBAMACARE: WHAT ABOUT THE GAMERS?", "HOMOCIDE IN DC AND THE RISE OF THE JAPANESE RPG", "Just like us: How does Trump’s cabinet game? ", "CIVIL FORFEITURE AND THE SONY PLAYSTATION 4", "What does Global Warming Mean to You, A Gamer? "

The Unspoken Glory of Tardiness

• September 25th, 2017

Coming to things late lets you take it at a pace all your own, a pace dictated by nothing more than how you feel on that day or in that week.

a dark haired Japanese man leans up against a car, a large rock formation cutting like a ribbon across the sky in the background. This is a still from the game Final Fantasy XV.

2017’s It Isn’t Scary, It’s Frightening

By David Shimomura

• September 11th, 2017

It’s strangest quality as a film is that it’s a horror movie that is simply not very scary. While the line between scary and not is porous, subjective, and obtuse, it’s up to a movie to either define its terms or define itself in relation to existing ones.