Star Wars Galaxy Guides By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 9th, 2019 Everyone is talking about Star Wars right now, and so are we! We take a stroll through the 12-volume series of Galaxy Guide sourcebooks for the West End Games Star Wars RPG.
Episode 17: Tiny Islands, Watchmen By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • December 4th, 2019 Double episode today: David and Sara dig into the new videogame Tiny Islands and the Watchmen TV series.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – November 2019 By Astrid Budgor • December 3rd, 2019 A double dose of metal albums you should check out.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2019 By Noah Springer • December 3rd, 2019 Fresh November beats!
Dungeons & Drawings By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 2nd, 2019 This week, we chat about the monster art book Dungeons & Drawings!
Feature Excerpt What Lies Beneath: Subtextual Storytelling Techniques in Videogames By Jeff Spoonhower • December 2nd, 2019 Jeff Spoonhower discusses how stories can be told during gameplay through the use of powerful subtextual audio-visual techniques.
Feature Excerpt Games About Death (Are Stuck In a Rut) By Mark Hill • December 2nd, 2019 Why has the treatment of death in certain indie games become so predictable?
A Very Special Human Being: Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 Despite an elder James Cagney being miscast, latex masks and plenty of melodrama, the Lon Chaney biopic still has some of that old Hollywood magic.
Consumed in the Fire of His Own Making: Apprentice to Murder (1988) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 “Apprentice to Murder isn’t an undiscovered classic…but it’s better than its two-and-a-half-star average on Letterboxd would suggest.”
Because Bigger is Better: RoboCop (1987) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2019 “Our modern morass fits right in with the RoboCop…”