What we love about board games is how even the smallest ones can lead to larger-than-life emotions. From a tiny Jenga block leading to the whole room roaring in laughter to a roll of a Monopoly die leading to a...
As of December 7th, half of the 48 new courses for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had been released. If this is news to you and you’ve been rabidly playing the original Mario Kart 8 Deluxe courses since the game’s release...
In the last week alone, I got nostalgia-inducing video game updates like GoldenEye 007 coming to the Nintendo Switch and new Mario Kart tracks from versions I played a decade ago. Still, what’s been especially fun about this new era...
Summer is a time of great weather, less intense work, and vacations. In theory, at least! So why would we start a blog post asking about what video games are great for the summer? Because summer in practice is quite...
When you ask how much money people get paid to play video games, you might not like the answer. According to eSports Grizzly, the salary alone for pro esports athletes can range from $50,000 - $75,000. That doesn’t even start...
It is one of gaming’s age-old questions: which came first, the bar or the arcade? The arcade - or the bar? For those of us who grew up with video games, we were playing Time Crisis long before we could...
Playing video games isn’t necessarily the cheapest pastime. With the exception of bygone days of quarters and arcades, consoles will set you back more than a pretty penny. A PS5? That’s $500. The XBOX X? That’s $500. The Switch OLED?...
For anyone who’s ever dabbled in video game nostalgia, there’s never been a better time to go after your old favorites. Sometimes, it’s nice to enjoy something classic. Classic books. Classic movies. Classic video games. (And no, to all you...
Modern day culture comes at us fast and furious (almost as fast and furious as Fast and Furious movie sequels). With new phones, new apps for those phones, and new ways to communicate between phones, it feels like we’re ever...
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock and only playing your Gameboy Color for the last five years, you’ve heard about Battle Royale. Since the release of PUBG in 2017 (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds), this style of multiplayer game has continued to...
We live in interesting cultural times. As of quite recently, Netflix had over 15,000 titles available across its international libraries. On YouTube, users are now uploading nearly 82 years of content every single day. Spotify has over 70 million songs,...
