Wednesday, October 19 2011
Self Indulgence or Self Realization?: Sony’s “Michael” Ad
What Sony's ad might recognize about games is my own self indulgence, as constantly trying on the roles of heroes is a pretty narcissistic pastime.
Monday, October 17 2011
Wolves Like Us: Late Love
An odd mix of hardcore and heavy metal stylistics with a pop sensibility, Late Love is at times a promising debut, but overall muddled.
Tuesday, October 4 2011
Retox: Ugly Animals
You're not going to find anything leaner or meaner in 2011 than the debut full-length release from Southern California's Retox.
Tuesday, September 20 2011
Five Ways to Kill a Hipster? A Critique of Anti-Hipsterism
When men and/or white people, with gender and racial power over their counterparts, ridicule these cultural acts with disregard for what they mean to the originators, then an anti-hipster response has the capacity to be racist and sexist.
Monday, September 19 2011
The Moving Pixels Podcast Is Being Difficult
The Moving Pixels Podcast considers how difficulty contributes to the pleasure and pain of gaming.
Monday, August 29 2011
On Costumes, Video Games, and the Art of Pretending
A little nostalgia goes a long way. Sometimes, you get so lost in looking at a thing that you forget that it's not real. Or at least, you want to forget that it's not real.
Tuesday, August 23 2011
Cerebral Ballzy: Cerebral Ballzy
Guess which half of their name the members of hardcore goofballs Cerebral Ballzy more closely align themselves on their stellar debut?
Monday, August 15 2011
The Problem of Genre in Video Games
Despite the wide variety of forms that games come in, the number of genres and the distinctions between them are confusingly small.
Tuesday, July 5 2011
Unearth: Darkness in the Light
The rest of modern metal would do well to heed this latest clinic by Unearth on the lost art of consistency.
