• Ghosts ‘N Goblins is Back

    I think people have forgotten how hard games used to be. Yes, games like Dark Souls, Super Meat Boy, Hollow Knight, and god knows how many others are certainly challenging. But they’re not truly impossible. When you play those games, you always have a sense of growth and progress, even when you’re stuck on one…

  • Geralt of Rivia: How the Setting Can Define a Character

    *Note: this will be focused exclusively on the books, not the games. Game Geralt is a similar but different beast. Maybe we’ll get to him later, I dunno. Also, spoilers.* In case you haven’t noticed, I’m quite fond of the Witcher series. I have differing thoughts on the games and the show was alright, but…

  • Writer’s Diary: March Update

    Been a hot minute since I’ve done one of these. The last time I did one of these, I set out two goals. The first was to keep Energia going without a long break. The second was to finish the first edited draft of Threads of Reality by March. Mission failed. These last few months…

  • Genies (Part 5): Marid

    The marid poured out of the flask like water and said, “Your wish is my command.” The halfling, overjoyed, wished for immortality, so the marid polymorphed him into a fish that flopped around humorously until, finally, it expired. It’s a cautionary tale that has survived through the ages, so I suppose the halfling got his…

  • The Warcraft Movie: The Biggest and Prettiest Video Game Movie Disaster

    I didn’t think I’d ever talk about Warcraft again after my ‘At What Point Should World of Warcraft Stopped Expanding’ article. But then they announced Burning Crusade Classic and I got dragged right back in. So… here we are. Even if they’ve recently been improving, the reputation surrounding video game movies is still a disastrous…