Handsome Phantom

Small Screens: Games on TV

Have you seen Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft? It’s Zack Snyder/Sin City level of painful recreation from source material to film, and I couldn’t help but get excited seeing the still shots on Twitter. But as the hype slowly faded, the realization of the games industry’s unsatisfactory relationship with film came back to me. The…

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4 Great Dads in Gaming

Disclaimer: May contain minor spoilers for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Mass Effect: Andromeda, The Batman: Arkham franchise, and Fallout 4 It’s that special day of the year we all set apart to celebrate dads. Some of our favorite dads wear jean shorts and taught us how to swear, and some of our very favorite…

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Kevin’s E3 Pick – Tropico 6

I love E3, I love it for the same reason kids love Christmas. No, it’s not the presents, although I received some swag for attending PlayStation’s E3 simulcast at the Pittsburgh Mills Cinemark. It’s the surprise of it. It’s finding an official Red Rider, carbine action, two hundred shot range model air rifle waiting for you behind the desk.

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