“News” by Matt S. One of the biggest things to come from Sony’s big day of announcements today was, apparently, an advertisement. I wish I was joking, but of course, capitalism and such, so I’m not. There was a press release about it and everything, as though it was something…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. There’s an insidious little myth out there that suggests that “gamers” want what the AAA industry churns out. It’s used to justify just about everything the AAA industry does. If it were true there wouldn’t be so many examples of games selling multiple millions of copies…
Read MoreI’ve thought long and hard about what the first sign that society is genuinely irredeemable might be. The event horizon. The point of no return. And I think this is it: The point where we cede control of the education and knowledge transfer from parents, educators, museums and the arts…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. One of the books I write about in this month’s Dee Dee Zine is Kawakami Meiko’s Heaven. It is a deeply uncomfortable, nihilistic book about bullying, and certainly anyone that reads it that has experienced bullying will be challenged terribly by it (in fact, everyone should…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. The big news today is that Funimation has acquired Crunchyroll for a ridiculous amount of money, meaning that the overwhelming bulk of anime available in the west has now been consolidated into just one company – a near-monopoly on the art form. Meanwhile, over at Spotify,…
Read MoreCaravaggio (the Italian painter) has become famous to history for being a bit of a thug. He killed someone sometime around 1590 (the greatest of his crimes, but by no means his only one). A decade later he was decorating the Contarelli Chapel. Today, a few centuries later, if you…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. There was an interesting article that was published over at The Gamer earlier this week, and it’s the kind of thing that got me thinking about video games at a more conceptual level. The piece is titled “Where Is The Video Game?”, and it’s largely a…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Nintendo is doomed. It’s all over. Valve has entered the scene with a portable gaming console that is basically the “Valve Switch.” It’s going to ruin Nintendo just like when Valve destroyed Sony and Microsoft’s console business with its Steam Boxes. Remember them? Back in 2013…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s happened again. “Easy modes” have once again become the discourse of the week, with Psychonauts 2 kicking off the discussion this time around. And, as usual, it’s an absolutely terrible discussion. Having not talked about difficulty on this channel yet, here’s my video on the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Putting aside the ongoing accusations of sexual harassment within the many Ubisoft towers across the globe (that in itself really should be the main subject of discussion with regards to Ubisoft, but I’m not close enough to sources to be the one to do it), yesterday…
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