It’s completely pointless to pretend that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has any chance in hell of winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards against Baldur’s Gate III, and that even if it did win then everyone would assume that Geoff Keighley got bribed by…

Todd Howard might be an unprecedented genius in gaming, but he is not god, he is not perfect, he makes mistakes, he is human after all. He might actually not be very smart, he might actually be kinda dumb, he might have a tendency of releasing broken games full of…

The instant massive success of both Barbie and Oppenheimer reminds me quite a bit of Elden Ring’s similar success. Hype is not an uncommon thing in the video game community, but it’s not very common for a game to live up to the hype and capture popular imagination while also…

Elden Ring is a gorgeous game. It has a simple yet complex combat system that just feels great to play. It’s arguably the best open world game ever made with intricately designed sandbox environments full of unique details that everyone needs to experience. It’s a game that’s a joy to…

Looking into video game journalists seeking validation — In retrospective it’s easy to see that The Last of Us was the so-called ‘Citizen Kane moment’ that video game journalists and critics were praying for many years in advance. …

The many evils of Jeff Bezos are very well recorded: From his abuse of workers at Amazon warehouses, to the fact that his company pays cero to negative taxes, to his collaboration with the surveillance state and the military-industrial complex. Thus, making a mediocre TV show is not really that…

The genius of Death Stranding is in how Kojima proved that most mainstream games are completely full of shit. This is especially true for blockbuster open world games, which are often generic and full of filler content, and yet publishers find ways to waste insane amounts of money on making…

The most annoying thing for someone who pretends to be an expert on textual analysis is seeing people analyze a piece of media by ignoring large parts of the content being presented, or even by inserting their own preconceived interpretation of the material that doesn’t actually fit with the ideas…

Varg Vikernes is a famous black metal musician, an esoteric cultist, a former murderer, a neo-Nazi, a probable arsonist, a video blogger, and a convicted anti-Semite. Due to his reputation as a reactionary musician he has gained a weird online following of edgy kids and reactionaries over the years. …