How David Ellison Took Control of Paramount And Changed The Hollywood Landscape
The Skydance-Paramount merger closed quietly. The restructuring of Hollywood's accountability system did not.
Streamers Raise Concerns Over Discord’s New Age Verification Policy
Upon hearing about Discord’s new age verification policy, I felt very much 50/50 on the new rules. On one hand, I think it is a great idea to keep kids…
Print is a Dying Art: A Sad Reality
Growing up, I would always dream of one day having my photos printed and displayed in art galleries around the globe. Magazines, newspapers, and posters were the tangible items which…
Bracket 3 MTG Commander Tournament:
My LGS, Sci-fi Factory is holding a bracket 3 commander tournament the entire month of March. The winner of the tournament will take home a coveted Chrome Mox card. “Imprint…
Scarborough Renaissance Faire 45th Annual Season:
(Photo by me from the 2025 season taken on Ilford color film) “Since 1981, Scarborough Renaissance Festival has been a North Texas tradition providing interactive fun for everyone, 16th Century…
LEGO Pokémon Set Sells Out as Resale Prices Soar
LEGO’s first-ever Pokémon theme set featuring Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise sold out within a day, with resale prices on eBay reaching nearly double retail. The limited-edition 18+ collector’s item
World of Warcraft: Midnight Officially Launches
World of Warcraft: Midnight officially launches on March 2, 2026 at 3pm PST (6 pm EST). Epic Edition players can access the game early beginning February 26, 2026. This eleventh…
Late to the Game: My Run-Through so Far in Expedition 33
(screen shot taken during game play) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was released on April 24, 2025. Why did I wait almost a year after its release date to start playing?…
Xbox Has a New CEO. Gamers Hear “AI.” Seamus Blackley went on record saying he believes Xbox is being “sunsetted” in favor of AI. Microsoft and Xbox are Over.
Microsoft gave Xbox a new boss and the internet reacted the way it always reacts when you change the pilot mid-flight: it grabbed the oxygen masks, started writing eulogies, and…
The Backrooms Trailer Made Me Feel Hopeful, Which Is Rude
I went into the Backrooms trailer with the emotional posture of a person opening a group chat titled “IMPORTANT.” I expected the worst: a committee-built meme movie that over-explains the…
Marathon Gameplay Leaks: Early Access Footage, Meta Shifts, and What Bungie’s Extraction Shooter Actually Feels Like
Featured image: The UESC Marathon overhead. (Source: marathonthegame.com) For months, Marathon discourse has lived in the abstract: trailers, feature lists, and the usual extraction-shooter arguments about “stakes,” “loop,” and whether…
Sony’s New PS5 Deals Run Through March 9, 2026 — Here Are the Hardware, Game, and PS Plus Highlights
Featured: PS5 console + DualSense. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) Sony has kicked off a major PlayStation 5 promotional push in the U.S., with discounts across hardware, accessories, and a long list…
Aimee’s Top Summer Tours: 5 Artists Sure to Rock the Arena
Going to concerts was not a huge part of my upbringing. As I got older and gained more freedom, I began attending and later photographing local shows. One of my…
The Highly Anticipated Ninja Turtles MTG Set Looks Like a Major Disappointment
First Look at the Set: Upon first glance at this new Magic the Gathering set, it seems like Universes Beyond will do anything and everything to get people to play…
The Slop Era: How AI Laziness is breaking Democracy (and how Veribeat is fixing it)
The modern newsroom is quieter than it used to be. The chaotic, smoky, adrenaline-fueled hum of the mid-20th century beat reporter—phones ringing, editors screaming, sources being grilled in diner booths—has…
The Dragon Without Fire: Amazon’s Yakuza Betrays the Spirit of Yakuza Game Series
Kamurocho’s real-world DNA: Kabukichō at night. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) The franchise origin point. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) To adapt Yakuza—Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s sprawling, melodramatic, and frequently insane crime saga—you must…
Mentally Challenged Space Cadets Unite! Starfleet Academy is the End of Competence
There was a time when Star Trek was about the smartest people in the galaxy solving impossible problems with wrenches, deflector dishes, and diplomacy. That time is dead. Star Trek:…
The Seven-Hundred Dollar Question: Who is the PS5 Pro Actually For?
PS5 Pro’s new three-stripe silhouette. (Image: PlayStation.Blog) When Mark Cerny appeared on screen for the technical presentation of the PlayStation 5 Pro, the atmosphere was clinical, precise, and deeply detached…
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Almost Destroyed AAA Gaming: the Death of Grit
Dragon Age: The Veilguard key art. (Image: BioWare / EA via The Verge) There was a specific texture to the original Dragon Age: Origins that has been slowly scrubbed away…
Revisiting Switch 2 Rumors vs What We Got
Nintendo headquarters, Kyoto. (Wikimedia Commons) Yeah, we heard a lot of rumors. But what were we wrong about? Let’s re-visit an old writeup and see where we were right or…