
Album Review: The Institute by Goodvibes Sound
The warmth and long days of summer may be nowhere to be found at the moment, but the guys from Goodvibes Sound are here to bring that mood back with […]
Video Game, Board Game, Comic Book & Movie Reviews – and more!
The warmth and long days of summer may be nowhere to be found at the moment, but the guys from Goodvibes Sound are here to bring that mood back with […]
“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 […]