
Journey’s 10th Anniversary: An Interview With Austin Wintory
“I was into comics, video games, movies and novels – and I was split on if I wanted to be a writer or a paleontologist,” Austin Wintory tells me about […]
Video Game, Board Game, Comic Book & Movie Reviews – and more!
“I was into comics, video games, movies and novels – and I was split on if I wanted to be a writer or a paleontologist,” Austin Wintory tells me about […]
“Wait, did we even talk about Cuphead?”, Ego Plum asks as we’re bringing our chat to a close. Over the course of our conversation, we went into so many different […]
It’s not often that I cover music on the blog; even less so when it’s a musical genre that I’m fairly unfamiliar with. Yet French alternative rock band Nothing but […]
“I’ve been into music since I was a little kid; my mom was really into music. She always said that she wanted to be a singer, but it was a […]
“I remember playing Dead Space and just thinking ‘why is it so scary?’,” Sergio Ronchetti tells me of the first time he realised that someone must have been responsible for […]
A side project for the multi-genre producer/artist Blue Stahli (aka Bret Autrey), Sunset Neon is focused on synthwave, with a retro-futuristic, melodic sound that’s a great example of why the […]
“I only realised how big Dota was when I went home and Googled it. I saw there was a tournament with a $35 million prize and just thought – how […]
French electronic band Télépopmusik released the gorgeous album Genetic World in 2001, to great critical success, selling over 350,000 copies worldwide. Follow up Angel Milk, released in 2005, failed to […]
Back in the early 90s – when I was in my mid-teens – my peer group and I were having our minds expanded by all of the non-mainstream music we were discovering – we started by finding decidedly non-chart friendly alternative rock and electronic music; genres such as industrial for example. We all ended up going in different directions in […]
I first became aware of cheeky retro-electro funk duo Chromeo in 2007 at a British festival called The Big Chill. For a number of years back then, I used to attend that particular festival with a group of close friends; it was small but grew to a decent enough size that it attracted some phenomenal acts – and it was […]
“For me it was watching The Untouchables and hearing Ennio Morricone’s score,” Bobby Tahouri says, about what it was that made him want to become a film composer. “My father […]
“I wanted to be a guitarist in a rock and roll band,” Ilan Eshkeri tells me, “but it all went terribly wrong!” Given how acclaimed, prolific and talented Ilan Eshkeri […]
I’m a bit weird when it comes to music. I struggle with most songs that have lyrics, mostly because I find them so hard to ‘hear’ unless I know what’s […]
Has another week passed? It sure has! As we hurtle uncontrollably towards Christmas and the end of another year – as well as, terrifyingly, the end of another decade – let’s take a look at what I wrote during the first week of December. Revisiting Assassin’s Creed I struggled through about a third of Assassin’s Creed around nine years ago, […]
Ever since I started writing my blog, over 200 days and articles ago, my focus has mainly been on games. Not necessarily just video games – I’ve covered tabletop RPGs, board games and card games too – but generally gaming in some form or other. I’ve also taken the odd detour into more personal territory a few times and there’s […]
I wasn’t a Daft Punk fan at first. Their first album – Homework – just felt way too repetitive; it sounded like a collection of songs built to dance to […]