Playing at the End of the World: Video Games and Climate Crisis

I’m reading this book by Philip K. Dick right now called The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. It’s set on a near-future Earth which has heated to the point that exposure to the sun is...

Why Were Anime Dub Openings So Weird?

America has always had a strange relationship with Japanese media and pop culture. From the weirdness of DiC’s Sonic Cartoons to everything about Digimon: The Movie, it’s plain to see that lice...

Did Bill Nighy Shtup His Ditto in Detective Pikachu?

I really, truly cannot stress enough how excited I was for Detective Pikachu. The first trailer was released just days after I’d had major surgery, and it sent me into a giddy haze. I immediate...

A Brief History of Romance in Dark Souls

Bioware fans had a bit of a shock when it turned out that there was no romance in Anthem. With games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age featuring a whole host of arresting companions...

Navigating the Confusing, Horny World of MMO Roleplay

MMORPGs have always been notorious time-sinks. But no matter how many quests and dungeons these games offer, they all seem to have a sizeable community of roleplayers nonchalantly inhabiting their cha...

A Lore Primer for Destiny 2 New Light Players

Well hey there, Guardian. Welcome to the Tower, the glorious last bastion of humanity of in the galaxy. That’s what the Vanguard would say, anyway. Guessing you got a lot of questions bouncing around...

A Behavioral and Anatomical Examination of Sirfetch'd, the Most Horrifying Pokémon Ever

The email was innocuous enough. “Meet Sirfetch’d!” the subject line read, excitedly introducing the newest addition to the Pokemon Sword and Shield games. The internet went wild, as...

The Evo 2019 Line-Up: Every Game and What to Expect

The Evolution Championship Series has been at the center of the fighting game community since its beginnings as the Battle By the Bay tournament in 1996. Evo is the largest fighting game tournament in...

Why Yacht Club is Handing Shovel Knight Dig to Nitrome

“We wanted another Shovel Knight game,” says Alec Faulkner of Yacht Club Games, “but we didn’t want to make it. We’re sick of making Shovel Knight games. And we’re still making one of ou...

How Sea of Thieves is Bringing Families Together

“Can we go to the skull fort?” an excited voice shouts through the headset. I look over and see my nephew on the ship’s prow, clutching a telescope and signalling over to a terrifying skull-shaped clo...

Cooking With Grammeowster Chef from Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

If you’re looking to dominate the food chain in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, then you’re going to need to impress a multitude of people and creatures alike. But if we’re talking in a liter...

Team Scorched Is Destiny 2's Best PvP Mode, and Here's Why

With Season of the Undying, Bungie has dedicated a playlist in Destiny 2‘s PvP arena, the Crucible, to new and returning modes that buck the game’s established norms. The playlist’s featured...

Here's the Lore: What's the Story of Destiny 2 - Season of the Drifter?

The Destiny 2 Postmaster mainly catches items players miss during in-game activities. But in the Season of the Drifter, players have discovered their postage also carries some interestin...

A Love Letter to Breath of the Wild's Prince Sidon

The Hyrule of Breath of the Wild is a lonely, ruined world, its wide expanses inhabited by just-out-of-reach memories, ghosts, moss-covered ruins, monsters and trepidatious travelers. Settlemen...

The Deeper Meaning of 'Fashion Souls' in Dark Souls and Bloodborne

Grimes’ gaming-inspired outfits are a familiar sight to her fans by now. In a recent Instagram post, the pop star and tastemaker wore a bulky pauldron strapped to one shoulder, molded into the sh...

A Look Back at the Armor of Destiny 1

Over the lifespan of the original Destiny, the armor designs kept getting more and more flashy. Each expansion paired its specific theme to its visuals, including the on-character gear design...

The Physicality of Consciousness: A Conversation With Larry Fessenden

As a character actor, Larry Fessenden has appeared in films like You’re Next and The Dead Don’t Die, plus numerous cameos in productions by his company Glass Eye Pix, which has been cran...

Could Resident Evil's t-Virus Really Exist?

Zombies are freaky. It doesn’t matter where they come from, decaying humans that mindlessly cannibalize flesh will always be just plain upsetting. And there’s seemingly no end to the sources of the li...

Why Is There Suddenly So Much Rugby Anime?

If you look hard enough, you can find anime and manga about nearly any pastime. There are shows about airsoft guns, high-octane poetry card games, and building Gundam model kits.So it shouldn’t...

Cracking the Egg, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Solas Romance

I have about 400 hours on Dragon Age: Inquisition alone, with another 100 across Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 combined. I have Dragon Age art hanging on my walls. I...