A friend of mine once sent me an article about how genre fiction needs to be about characters. It made the further point that science fiction often loses its way while exploring fantastic concepts, and aspiring writers would be wise to avoid such pitfalls. I find this line of thought
Believe it or not, even after years of being submerged in video games and gaming culture, my first time playing a Street Fighter game happened about a month ago at Sony’s E3 booth. One of my Gaming Trend colleagues and I walked over to a demo to play a
Television is taking the opportunity of low summer viewership to gauge the tolerance of the censors. Five of George Carlin’s seven words are now regular parts of speech on many cable networks, which are scrambling to recapture share lost to HBO, Netflix, and other premium offerings.
It’s been
While playing through a narrative-heavy game, the anticipation of the unknown is what keeps the player moving forward. You continuously wonder where the story is going, and what kind of end result is looming for our main character. With most games, after you get through a captivating cutscene, you are
“Son of a bitch.” Those are Sara Wheeler’s words, and that’s how this episode begins, with Sara cursing out her father for daring to send a premarital agreement for Joe to sign. Those were also my words when I saw she’s still in Joe’s life. The
Happy funtime Gordon is back, sniffing chalk and running around in his vintage orange full-body Adidas track suit. He’s cross-pollinated with Louis Tully from Ghostbusters, becoming an irritating little guy who can’t stop talking about the virtues of fiber. By the end of the episode he’s questioning
Full spoilers for the episode follow.
Well… wow. It’s hard to know where to begin after such an explosive opening to a new season. There are so many things I want to talk about, but everything starts somewhere. Rebels started in its first season with the crew of the
Frankly, season two of Halt And Catch Fire is taking its sweet time living up to the inaugural season. The first season followed a standard algorithm. Rapidly increase dramatic tension through complex character motivations and clever dialog, allow a scene to boil over, briefly cool and repeat. No relationship or
