Xenoblade Chronicles
"The thing that truly sets Xenoblade apart from its competitors, though, is how much effort is put into making the game-playing experience as pleasant as possible." [...]
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MMORPG: An Addict’s Diary
"To an outsider this addiction must seem bizarre and possibly even insane, but to a gamer this addiction isn’t a game - it’s a life." [...]
The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
"Part of what makes Brill Bruisers so delightful is that it’s a return to a form that we didn’t realize was missing." [...]
Rustie – Green Language
"Though the record falls short of expectations, there is something to be said about Rustie’s determination to craft tracks that are both bubbly and ethereal." [...]
Objectivity in Music and the Dogmatic Censorship of Subjective and Rational Thinking
"If you are one of those people who refuses to accept that proper opinionated discussion can exist and that we all need to tip-toe around stating our feelings for certain music (or anything), then you are the problem you so desperately seek to vanquish." [...]
Sunless Sea
"Sunless Sea is immersive in ways I’ve only seen shadows of in other games, but the elements that create that immersion are self-defeatingly unpredictable at times." [...]
The Bone Season – Samantha Shannon
"Overall, the novel is nearly 500 pages of stagnancy. Sure, things are happening, but development is at a standstill." [...]
The Knick – S01E01
"1900s medicine, with its grotesque, desperate, painful, inefficient, and trial-and-error approach to surgery makes ‘the mystery’ not the virus (a la House M.D.) but, rather, the treatment." [...]
Mario Kart 8
"For everybody that has been waiting for a new Mario Kart this one was worth the wait. That being said, for those who haven’t been waiting for a new Mario Kart there isn’t much here to draw you in." [...]
Horseback – Piedmont Apocrypha
Written by: Michael Snoxall Horseback is one of those projects you can’t pin down; Jenks Miller’s abstract mind of [...]