I am a die-hard Disney theme park fan, having visited Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California countless times with my parents and sister for family vacations. But this week I did something different. On Sunday I spent a day at Disneyland with Mega64, my favorite video game-themed comedy group on the Internet. And it was awesome. Disneyland [Read more…]
It goes without saying that Forza Motorsport was one of the biggest racing franchises on the Xbox 360, so it makes plenty of sense that the latest version is a launch title for the Xbox One. A new console generation offers better graphics, more computing power, and more use of the word “more” by PR executives than ever before. Forza [Read more…]
Full disclosure: I am terrible at watching scary movies. Gore/horror + my overactive imagination = a bad combination on par with tequila shots + karaoke bars. Scary movies bother me for days after I watch them, and I become a jittery, skittish mess, looking over my shoulder at every turn. Ironically, most of my favorite TV shows are of the [Read more…]
Shark vs Anime is back for a second season! Mr. Shark the shark puppet kicks things off with a review of Kill La Kill.
I finally got around to watching Gravity last weekend. It was quite a good movie, but I couldn’t help comparing it to the long-running anime series Space Brothers. While one is a 90-minute movie and the other is a television show closing in on 100 episodes, I thought it’d be interesting to compare how the two works deal with the [Read more…]
It’s that time of year again, when every public place is decorated top to bottom in fake spider web, rubber skeletons and quickly rotting jack-o-lanterns, all with “The Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters” and the entire soundtrack from The Rocky Horror Picture Show blasting out of a boom box on repeat. As dedicated gamers, isn’t it about time we broke the mundane [Read more…]
Earlier this month, Scott Dixon clinched the 2013 IndyCar series title in dramatic fashion at the last race of the season. Just over a week later, Sebastian Vettel secured the Formula One drivers’ championship with three races remaining in the season. Both men performed incredibly well this season, so why was Vettel able to complete his goal with so much [Read more…]
Before we talk beer, we have to talk beer. A good college buddy of mine once said, “There’s a time and a place for every beer”. And boy, was he right. I’ve found that for something as delicious and awesome as beer, there is way too much criticism and beer-snobbery going on. All of us could us a good lesson [Read more…]
It’s easy to like Black Lagoon for its constant barrage of gunfights, car chases, and witty one-liners, but one of its less explosive strengths comes in the relationship between the main characters. There’s a fascinating dynamic between Rock and Revy that develops over the course of the series, producing deadly tension and wonderfully understated friendship in equal measure. In order [Read more…]
In my experience talking to folks who play racing video games, the issue of “favorite game” tends to divide people into two very different camps. On one side, there are the simulation fans, the Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo players who expect their games to take the phrase “virtual reality” literally. They want accurate physics, real cars and tracks, photorealistic [Read more…]