Can I tell you a secret? The SoCal Gaming Expo might just be the best convention you go to all year. We here in Southern California are slightly spoiled when it comes to conventions. One of the best conventions that hits the SoCal area is the SoCal Gaming Expo. It used to be called the SoCal Retro
For many Mario fans and even Nintendo fans in general, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the best Paper Mario game in the series. It's no surprise. Paper Mario was one of the best Nintendo games period, not least of which is because it was basically a successor to Super Mario RPG. All this
The release of Luigi's Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch back in October 31, 2019 proves that this particular Nintendo video game series is still going strong. Fans still love the idea of making Luigi play Ghostbusters...sorry, Ghostbuster in the singular. He's very much a lone wolf here in these
Overwatch 2 and Cowboy Bebop couldn't be any more different than if they'd tried. The former is the sequel to one of the most successful and critically acclaimed hero shooter games in history. The latter is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed sci-fi anime series in history.
Let's face it: Electronic Arts (EA) doesn't exactly have the greatest track record for a video game company. Gamers will clearly recall Star Wars Battlefront II back in 2017 as an example of that. The company's response of predatory lootboxes and grinding mechanics to unlock Star Wars heroes giving
Nintendo fans eagerly await the release of the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. However, you know who are also awaiting that release? Scalpers. Loads and loads of scalpers, all waiting in the woodwork to buy them up as soon as they become available in order to resell them at absurdly inflated prices.
Endless Ocean Luminous will be the third and latest entry in the Endless Ocean series of scuba diving adventure video games. Admittedly, this will probably not mean a whole lot to most modern gamers. After all, the first Endless Ocean game came out in NA back on January 21, 2008, for the Nintendo
Pentiment and Grounded are two very different video games. The former is an adventure RPG set in the medieval ages and featuring an appropriately medieval art style, while the latter is basically Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in video game form as a survival base-building RPG. Literally, the only
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
