Opinion 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…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I am so grateful that Lindsay, our resident news boss, has provided these daily wraps of the biggest bits of E3 news each day. Today, for the first time since E3 kicked off this year, I went looking for news and information, and I was so…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. So one of the more interesting things to become a trend from this year’s E3 came out of nowhere; not one, but TWO companies announced physical-only game releases. You will not be able to buy and download them, ever. The only way to get a copy…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Ratchet & Clank has landed, and we’ve seen the usual response to anyone that hasn’t written a review that is “positive enough;” more than a few comments there are anything but accepting of the review and opinion. None of that is new, of course (and it…
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