Warning: Major spoilers ahead for The Walking Dead: The Final Season ______________________________________________________________________________ As some may be familiar with by now, and as covered on our industry wrap up a bit earlier, Telltale games spectacularly and unexpectedly imploded last year, shuttering the studio and leaving the fate of The Walking Dead series that put them on…

The GDC winners for this year were announced about a week back, and so it’s back to me to check in with my predictions and see how I fared. Let’s just press start and go into it then: Best Audio: My pick: Red Dead Redemption 2 GDC: Celeste Wrong on all fronts to begin with…

Hello one and all, and welcome to the inaugural Errant Indication…ies where, along with your help, we pick the best movies of the year because the Academy has no idea what they’re doing. If your interested on our thoughts on that, we did just put out a couple of episodes — The Morganaissance: A Conversation…

Already in this new year I find myself having a bout of déjà vu, in a good way. Back in early February of 2017, I wrote a piece on Resident Evil 7 and how it had, in my opinion, achieved a much-needed revitalization of the long-standing survival horror franchise. It sold quite well and was…

Time marches on, the new year has arrived, and thus the GDC has announced their nominees for the upcoming awards in March. And as I’m no exception to being a slave to time, I also once again will go over certain categories, (i.e. the ones I’m personally most interested in) giving my thoughts and predictions on…

This year’s Game Awards have just come and gone, and so it is time of course to insert my thoughts about the nominees and winners, in some of the categories of main interest to me at least. As usual, my standard disclaimer of I played what I was able to play stands, but will of…

Below is the transcript of my talk given at the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Pop & American Culture Association. Check out the full episode here at the Games & Gaming Culture section of the site.   Play to Pay: The Machinations of Microtransactions & the Lure of Loot Boxes Welcome everyone. Today I’ll be speaking about microtransactions/loot…

If you’ve listened to our review of A24’s newest horror offering, “Hereditary,” directed by Ari Astar, then you know how much I hated the film. The experience of watching this in the theater was frustrating. I often felt bored due to the tedious nature of most of the scenes, editing and run time. Upon reflection,…

[Contains spoilers]   Far Cry 5 was born in controversy long before it was released. The original promo art caused a bit of a stir and was accused of both provoking and encouraging some kind of vague alt-right sentiment and/or being an indictment on the state of American society. This backlash against it died down…

So this year’s GDC Awards have come and gone, and the winners have been posted. I’m a little late to the game this year, as we’ve been busy at TLS with some redesigns and remodeling etc (on this very site) some of which are still in progress. Still, I would be remiss if I didn’t look…

There is a style to Guillermo del Toro’s films that is simultaneously recognizable and elusive. Indeed, there are certain design aesthetics he favors, often letting the story dictate the production design rather than adapting the story to conform to a certain look.