Firewalk Studios is the latest casualty of the woke backlash in the entertainment industry. Today, Sony announced on its Sony Interactive Entertainment website that they will close Firewalk Studios, the in-house studio through which they produced the first-person shooter Concord. They’re also gett...
Read MoreThe slew of layoffs throughout the video game industry has reached Bungie, the former developer of Halo. The studio is letting go of 220 employees, which is about 17% of its workforce, while 155 others are moving to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which owns Bungie. (Bungie used to be owned by Micro...
Read MoreMarvel’s Spider-Man 2 is a huge hit after being on sale for just a few days, but while it’s getting a lot of praise for its gameplay, it’s also being mocked as some of its woke attempts backfire. And this game does sound like it’s going for broke on that score; there are elements like the &...
Read MoreWhenever two things are popular simultaneously, studios and fans alike often imagine combining these popular things to make something new, the hypnosis of current think fueling them. Jack Black has fallen into this trend following the massive success of HBO’s The Last of Us and Universal’s Super...
Read MoreHBO’s The Last of Us has thankfully come to its conclusion with episode 9, “Look for the Light.” After enough bloat to bore Hemingway, The Last of Us barrels to the end, forgetting that it has not invested enough of its overstuffed screen time in developing the relationship between Joel and El...
Read MoreThe impossible has occurred: HBO has released a good episode of The Last of Us. After weeks of subpar writing, bad acting, and bloated filler, the writers have managed to cobble together an enjoyable and thought-provoking experience. Whether or not this is merely a case of a broken clock striking tr...
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