Welcome back to this week’s edition of Channel Chaser! So maybe it’s just me, but I think that so far I’ve been pretty charitable in my reviews of TV shows, and I’ve tried to point my readers toward shows I think they might enjoy. Well, it’s time to change that. This week, I’ll be talking about a program that you [Read more…]
As with any other hobby or interest, being an anime fan eventually leads to the desire to share the things we love with our friends. We can’t help but want to talk about our favorite shows with our favorite people. The trouble is, there are so many barriers to entry when it comes to much of the anime world: different [Read more…]
It took gaming communities by firestorm last weekend: a film company shooting a documentary about the history of Atari led a successful excavation of an infamous landfill in the New Mexico desert, proving true the long-debated urban legend that Atari buried truckloads of copies of the E.T. The Extra Terrestrial video game there at the start of the company’s downfall. [Read more…]
In recent years, driving games have embraced a jack-of-all-trades attitude. You’ll sell more copies if you can be everything to everyone, or so the thinking goes. Start with an enormous range of vehicles, tracks, and game modes, and add on an array of assists that allow players of any skill level to enjoy the game. The result is a huge [Read more…]
Welcome to another edition of Channel Chaser! This week, I’d like to take a break from my regularly scheduled writing about fictional shows and bring you all some more current news from the land of television. As you may have guessed from the title, I’m talking about the two biggest faces in comedy today, and probably my personal favorites of [Read more…]
Here in the US, we’re most familiar with manga in its standard paperback form. For around ten dollars, we get between 150 and 200 pages of content in black and white on decent-quality paper. Early-adopter types might also be used to digital formats, be they individual downloads or subscription-based services. Whether in print or online, we’ve grown familiar with a [Read more…]
True story: just before I sat down to write this article I went to my stovetop and made myself a huge bucket of delicious, buttery, salty popcorn (I’ve learned through experience that microwave popcorn pales in comparison to making it on the stove). Not only do I know a thing or two about making great movie snacks, I also know [Read more…]
Welcome back to Channel Chaser! As you may have guessed from the title of this week’s column, I’ll be diving in the wild, wacky world of the BBC’s sci-fi fantasy epic, Doctor Who. It’s difficult to judge Doctor Who as a whole simply because every version of the title character is so fundamentally different; and to be clear, I’m just [Read more…]
It’s that time of the season once again: the time when anime fans cram their schedules full of more shows than any reasonable person could possibly watch. Most folks will soon scale things back as it becomes clear what is and isn’t worth watching, but for now we’re still all caught up in the manic flood of possibilities. Just to [Read more…]
All I can start this musing off with is: wow. I am still recovering from what was an incredible, epic weekend of video games and gaming culture as far as the eye can see. PAX East 2014 was the largest convention I had ever attended. I felt very overwhelmed at first, but eventually I got my bearings and experienced tons [Read more…]