Every so often, the greats remind us why they’re great. Masahiro Sakurai, the video game director and designer who created the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series, recently won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Award for the Arts, which the Japanese government gi...
Read MoreYou’ve seen The Game Awards (or maybe you haven’t; I don’t think a lot of gamers bother with those anymore), but now, you can see The Real Game Awards! The Real Game Awards is the first step taken by Stuttering Craig, the host of Side Scrollers and co-founder of Screw Attack, in his Take Game...
Read MoreThe signs of a cultural shift in the entertainment industry continue to pop up. They have been slowly emerging since the beginning of 2024, as seen in Chris Gore’s report about Marvel Studios firing their activist producers and preparing for a sea change from their All New, All Different push. But...
Read MoreThe Game Awards are making a play for respectability. The video game awards show is known for nominating games for sociopolitical reasons rather than their merit, sales, or popularity with gamers, and often snubbing games that many thought would be a shoo-in for recognition. This year, it was assume...
Read MoreDragon Age: The Veilguard may be in trouble. I know it’s hard to believe that a video game in a popular franchise that was developed by whacko activists and seems more concerned with establishing that one of the characters is “nonbinary” than in sending gamers on fun and exciting adventures i...
Read MoreDragon Age: The Veilguard, the horrendous-looking new entry in the RPG video game series from BioWare, was released this past Thursday (Halloween, which is kind of hilarious), so it’s had a weekend to make its mark and give interested parties an indication of how successful it will be. And while i...
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