Rookie of the Year Coming Through in the Clutch: Nitpicking The Pitt By Matt Marrone • June 4th, 2026 There is one thing I know a lot about. And The Pitt gets it wrong.
Rookie of the Year Therapy Bananza! By Matt Marrone • April 8th, 2026 Pounding your chest to activate a Bananza, then annihilating everything around you at breakneck speed – that is the true joy of the game.
Rookie of the Year Meeting Hanako at Embers: Why Video Game Endings Are a Bummer — And Multiple Ones Are Even Worse By Matt Marrone • March 5th, 2026 Unfortunately, Cyberpunk 2077 allows gamers to make choices.
Rookie of the Year Escape from Night City By Matt Marrone • February 6th, 2026 Did I succeed? Of course not. But the journey, as they say, is the destination.
Rookie of the Year How Did We Ever Beat Videogames Before the Internet? By Matt Marrone • January 12th, 2026 When I was a kid, we didn’t have online resources to beat bewildering RPGs – but beat them we did.
Rookie of the Year Stein Hoister of the Year By Matt Marrone • December 10th, 2025 Just like that, a legend was born.
Rookie of the Year Marronopoly By Matt Marrone • November 6th, 2025 The activity that has best defined the outsized influence Monopoly now has over our lives happened on a recent Saturday.