It’s hard to believe seven years have already come and gone, and now we’re at the dawn of a new generation of gaming consoles. With the PlayStation 4 launching last weekend and the Xbox One launching this Friday, I too have been looking back at some of my favorite gaming memories on the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. “There [Read more…]
The launch of the Xbox One is nearly upon us, which wouldn’t be particularly interesting to racing gamers if it weren’t for one very important game: Forza Motorsport 5. To make the last few days of waiting easier, I’ve come up with a few ways to keep your gearhead brain occupied. After all, if you’re anything like me, you’ve already [Read more…]
Mr. Shark reviews an anime series about teenage angst and underwater racism, then makes a bunch of lame Disney jokes.
At the start of the fall season, I decided to try out a pair of sports anime series: Ace of Diamond and Yowamushi Pedal. Six weeks later, I’m thoroughly enjoying one of them, while the other has fallen off my radar completely. Since both follow a fairly typical genre structure, why the vast difference in my lasting interest? As it [Read more…]
Video games starring famous superheroes have been around since video games themselves have been around, but for some reason I never played many of them. Perhaps it was because I noticed many superhero games that were released for the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube when I was growing up were clumsily thrown together and that they were nothing more than shameless [Read more…]
With the drivers’ and constructors’ championships long since decided, some of my fellow American Formula One fans may be looking for a way to add some excitement to the upcoming US Grand Prix in Austin. If I may make a suggestion, why not have some fun at the expense of our favorite motor racing TV commentators? The NBC Sports crew [Read more…]
As I write this week’s article, I find myself drinking my own beer. Yes, you heard me, my own homebrewed beer. I’d imagine a few decades ago this would have been a pretty rare thing to come by. Most craft breweries were just getting their start in this country around that time and these beers were hard to come by, [Read more…]
Mr. Shark the shark puppet lets his geek flag fly with a review of the fantasy comedy Outbreak Company.
Way back when I was in high school (and dinosaurs roamed the earth), there was a mythical idea floating around within groups of awkward teenage geeks. “Imagine,” we would whisper, “if the school library had… manga.” Fueled by wild rumors that some school in some town in some state had started lending out volumes of Death Note or Dragon Ball, [Read more…]
To say that Pokémon X & Y was a highly anticipated game is probably an understatement. Pair that with the fact that it pushed most of the people I know to spend a couple hundred bucks on a 3DS and expectations were pretty high. Oh yeah, and let’s not forgot they added a whole new type of Pokémon with the [Read more…]