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I Would Die For Peony, Pokemon's New Himbo Dad and Gay Icon

The Pokemon series has always been great at endearing you to a character in a very brief amount of time. This is true of gym leaders you see for mere minutes of screentime, professors wh...

Kenneth Shepard
Legendary Pokemon Feel Less Special Than Ever in The Crown Tundra

Pokemon Sword and Shield’s “The Crown Tundra” DLC is good. Really good, honestly. It’s got some interesting new Legendary Pokemon, memorable characters who have rapidly ascended to the top of...

Kenneth Shepard
Chainsaw Man Is More High Concept Than Its One Brain Cell Heroes

Chainsaw Man was always too much for Shonen Jump. The frenetic, ultra-violent, often hilarious series doesn’t sit well next to young adult pillars like One Piece — which just celebra...

Nerium
A Late Game Twist Complicates Assassin's Creed: Valhalla's Gay Representation

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and I were getting along so well, but now I’m not sure how I should feel about the 90 hours I spent playing it. This is because a reveal in Ubisoft’s take on Norse my...

Kenneth Shepard
I Regret to Inform the Timeline That Destiny Is Pretty Good Again.

Destiny 2 is in solid shape again with the best post-expansion stretch in quite some time. Season of the Chosen brings us back to butting heads with the Cabal. Just like one of the dullest ch...

Nerium
FFXIV Director: "Don't Get Too Comfortable" in Assuming a Character Is Safe

With Patch 5.3 set to launch on Aug. 11, Final Fantasy XIV is reaching greater heights than ever. Since Patch 5.2, it’s reached over 20 million registered players, with that number only set t...

Natalie Flores
To Travis, The Previous Owner of My Copy of Pokemon White

I managed to track down an OLED Switch model this past week, and as such, had to move all my saved data from my old system to my shiny new one. My main concern was getting my files for the system’s va...

Kenneth Shepard
An Ode to Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect

When I started therapy a month ago for the first time since the pandemic began, my therapist quickly realized I struggle with perfection. To be imperfect is one of the few certainties we have as human...

Natalie Flores
I'm Convinced the New Mass Effect Teaser Tells Us Nothing of Substance

In a short one minute and 44 seconds, the teaser for the next Mass Effect game hit on nearly every fear I had about the future of my favorite series. But the more I watch it, the more I’m tryin...

Kenneth Shepard
The Future of Darkness Subclasses in Destiny 2

Guardians have been wielding the powers of Stasis for a while now in Destiny 2, much to the chagrin of more traditional lightbearers like Commander Zavala and Lord Saladin. But just as t...

Joey Chip
Ruinous Effigy Turns Destiny 2 Into a Completely Different Game

Ruinous Effigy is the answer to a small running joke between me and my Destiny playing friends: every Exotic in the sequel is just a worse version of something from the first game. Riskrunner...

Nerium
My Neglected Animal Crossing Island is Too Much of a Wasteland for the Island Tour Creator

Nintendo has released a pretty interesting tool for folks playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons to showcase their islands. The Island Tour Creator allows you to make what are essentially...

Kenneth Shepard
The Switch Got Me to Beat Three Old Final Fantasy Games in Two Weeks

It’s been tough to play Final Fantasy games over the years. Despite being one of the most recognizable franchises in the medium, publisher Square Enix has done a pretty poor job of making the...

Nerium
With FFXIV Patch 5.3, Shadowbringers Might Be the Best Final Fantasy Story

Reflections in Crystal is, in many ways, a glimpse into the future of FFXIV as a whole. A.k.a. Patch 5.3, the update doesn’t just conclude one of the best-received Final Fantasy

Natalie Flores
Dragon Age's Shifting Perspectives Keep Undermining its Personal Stories

Yesterday, Bioware finally acknowledged the next Dragon Age game in a way that went beyond tweets for the first time in literal years. The developer diary wasn’t much, but it was enough to send...

Kenneth Shepard
Guilty Gear Strive Nails Rollback Netcode, but Its Lobbies Are a Problem

Netcode is the ever-present specter looming over every fighting game launch. The genre ruled by infamous arcade cabinets doesn’t always make the cleanest jump to online battles, with results ranging f...

Eric Van Allen
Post Malone's Pokemon Concert Was a Great Music Video, Middling Live Show

After weeks of hyping it up, The Pokemon Company hosted a virtual Post Malone concert to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary.

Kenneth Shepard
The Last of Us: Part II Illustrates How Queer Spaces Are Not a Monolith

Because of the nature of the internet, it can become very easy to feel like individuals speak for entire groups of people. It was something I was uncomfortable with early on when I started working on...

Kenneth Shepard
An Ode to Elidibus of Final Fantasy XIV

Spoilers for Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers to follow. 

Natalie Flores
The MSFS Cessna Longitude is Still Bugged in the Worst Way

The Premium Deluxe version of Microsoft Flight Simulator will set you back more than $120 with tax. You see, the standard version of the game only comes with 20 planes in total. But there are...

Dillon Skiffington
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