Video Game Review: “The Beatles: Rock Band”
Let’s start off by saying, it’s good… it’s really good. If that’s all the justification you needed to buy it, then off to the store you go, but if you want to know why, then read on. The game doesn’t...
View ArticleVideo Game Review: “Run J-Stache Run”
Full disclosure: I don’t know much about J-Stache, because I am 100% straight up Team Daryl Hall till I die, WHUT. Yes yes, I get the whole ironic revisionist John Oates thing and I understand that the...
View ArticleFive Singing Actors Who Should Star in Movies Adapted from Video Games
The Internet is all a-tizzy this morning over the news that Jennifer Lopez is making a live-action movie out of the long-running educational video game Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? We...
View ArticleShameless Nostalgia: “SimTower”
In 1994, I could boot up my family’s PC, wait around ten minutes for it to warm up and then delve into, of all things, a real estate development simulator that engrossed me for hours as I transformed...
View Article5 of the Most Confounding Atari 2600 Games Ever
I wasn’t around for the great stock market crash of 1929, but I was alive for the North American video game crash of 1983. It was brutal, I tell you. Hundreds of thousands of desperate,...
View ArticlePopdose Prime: 10 Sex Symbols for Nerds
If you are to believe television and tech-savvy periodicals, being a nerd is cool and will make you rich and, as Tony Montana mused, then you get the money, then you get the wee-min. And yet life is...
View ArticlePopdose Flashback 1983: The Rise Of Nintendo
In the beginning there was Pong. Little more than two digital lines scrolling from the top of a television screen to the bottom, blocking a digital square that may or may not have been a ping pong...
View ArticleExtra Medium #8: 6 Reasons Why “Batman: Arkham Asylum” Is a Better Game Than...
Comics don’t stay in comics. For better or worse, most comics are produced with the hope they will lead to films, cartoons, action figures, video games, backpacks, beach towels and bubble baths. Extra...
View ArticleDw. Dunphy On… The Oldest Mouse in the Pizza Joint: Chuck E. Cheese Turns 40
Forty years ago this month, the founder of the famed video game company Atari waited to see if his next bet might pay off. Nothing was guaranteed. After all, this pizza chain’s mascot was a rodent and,...
View ArticleThe Next Donut Lords: Five Video Games That Could Follow “Sonic the...
Recently, Sonic the Hedgehog was released after being delayed four months to fix its CGI after its first trailer became the laughingstock of the internet. Everyone expected it to be a colossal...
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