Welcome back to Watch This: Wholesome Video Game Family Edition! Once again, we’re talking about the Netflix original show Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light. Folks, it’s winning me over. After spending a lot of time with the families of Breaking Bad and Six Feet Under over the past few months, it’s wonderful to meet a family whose problems can be…
Based on the brief introductions to the brand-new 15 soon-to-be-killed-off characters in Danganronpa V3, I’ve determined with great accuracy who to trust and who will stab me in the back, literally.
While I was preparing for last week’s sidequest about video game movies (check it out on our episodes page if you haven’t already!), I came to a stunning realization: there are a lot of video game adaptations out there! Even though I argued fiercely in the podcast against putting video games on film, I do…
Yay Prompto!!!!!!!!!! You can do it!!!!!!!!! Noct is really sorry for pushing you off a train, I swear!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you’ve been tuning in to our Sidequests (and if you haven’t, you’ve go to our episodes page and start working on that 100% completion!), then you’ve heard a few of my minute-long Let’s Plays of Buzzfeed quizzes. Well folks, because I am addicted to the internet’s favorite “news” site, I’m starting a new feature…
1. This intro though I remember watching the first version of this intro my senior year of high school when I was working in the Writing Center. I proceeded to force my friend Isabel to watch it too, and then I watched it like five more times until I actually had to stop because I…
Emma muses on how different professions are portrayed in games. OBJECTION! Emma mostly rambles. Okay, you got me there.
So, in the same way we all like different types of movies, books, and TV, we all like different types of games. Shocker, right? But there’s actually been a lot of research done into our motivations behind why we like the games we like. One way to look at it is player types. The oldest…
Why do we like games that make us cry, scream, fling our controller, sleep with the lights on, despair at our existence, etc? Here’s some of Emma’s musings.
Welcome to the Talk This blog! To commemorate our first episode going live this afternoon (have you subscribed and listened yet? You really should!), I’m going to give you all a behind-the-scenes peek into the development of the podcast. Emma and I have had a blast getting this off the ground, and we’re excited to share…