The Sims Retrospective: Continuing the Legacy of Simulation Video Games
The Sims is a life simulation video game that was first released in 2000 by Maxis and Electronic Arts. It quickly became one of the most successful, beloved, and influential games of all time, with over 200 million copies sold…
Why There Are so Few Women in Esports
In recent years, the world of video gaming has taken fanbases and enthusiasts by storm. With esports, the competitive side of video games, becoming a lucrative and popular genre of sports, games like DOTA 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fortnite, League…
Halo Tries a Bold Approach with its TV Adaptation that Doesn’t Entirely Work in its First Season
Halo languished long in development hell, conceptualized initially as a movie before finally becoming a TV series with Paramount Plus. That’s both a boon and a bane: technology and TV production quality have improved by leaps and bounds in the…
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Continues the Streak of Breaking the Video Game Adaptation Curse
Due to circumstances no one saw coming, Sonic the Hedgehog ended up being the highest-grossing film of 2020. In true sequel fashion, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, tries to go bigger in almost all aspects, and it doesn’t always work. However,…
Arcane is a Gorgeous and Stylized Animated Series that Tells a Simple but Emotionally Charged Story
Arcane is one of those delightful surprises that not only ends up being much better than anyone expected, but also reframes the landscape of video game adaptations. It creates an immersive world and focuses on a smaller slice of the…
Free Guy is a Fun Video Game Movie that Works Mostly Because of its Lead Performance
Free Guy has an easy-to-understand premise that can attract both Gen Z’ers and older generations to the theater: what if a non playable character (NPC) in a video game suddenly gained consciousness? Helmed by Ryan Reynolds, it starts off on…
Hitman 3: A Brilliant Conclusion to the Trilogy, with Plenty of Creative Kills and Inventive Level Design
The last five years have been good if you’re a Hitman fan. Sure, we also got the laughably ridiculous film Htiman: Agent 47 and then there’s the general miasma of living under the Trump administration, but we have been spoiled…
Cyberpunk 2077: a Good Game Buried Under an Ocean of Bugs
Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to be the biggest video game launch of the last five years. Developer CD Projekt Red gained a lot of goodwill with the success of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and their new game seemed to…
Why We Need Better Female Representation in Video Games
If we look at women in past video game history, women have not gotten the respect they deserve until now. In order to sell games and appeal to the largely male straight market, women are drawn disproportionately with nonexistent waists,…
What I am Playing: the Outer Worlds
There’s an urge to compare The Outer Worlds with Fallout from the get go, when you get revived from decades’ long cryogenic sleep and end up crash landing on a nearby planet. These two share some of their DNA, given…
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