Handsome Phantom Phans and Adventure Mode listeners will remember an episode a few months back where Brandon, Dustin, myself, and some other handsome gentlemen discussed our game of the year for 2016. The discussion always came back around to Overwatch, a smash hit of a game that managed to pull millions of players into a rich,…
Disclaimer: hyperlinked text includes Wikia articles and YouTube videos that may contain spoilers for The Witcher video games Readers who checked out my first piece on role-playing may recall I referred to the Witcher series as the greatest thing to come out of Poland since Lech Walesa. For those of you who aren’t link-clickers, Lech…
This Mother’s Day Handsome Phantom wants to take a moment to recognize the importance of moms in gaming. In a medium so flooded with shaven head white dudes standing in front of explosions, or high heeled clad warriors in miniskirts, archetypical characters like mummsies don’t get the recognition they deserve. So without further ado, here…
You can tell me. It’s okay, I’m a friend. How many times have you watched The Last Jedi trailer? Just breathe. I’ve seen it about a dozen times, and each time I get that wave of hype that feels too good to ignore. Star Wars is one of those keystone franchises that grab the imagination…
Roleplaying as a concept has had a checkered and meandering history. We can all picture the basement nerd stereotype in the seventies. They’ve got their twenty-sided di, a night’s supply of Pepsi, and Led Zeppelin is playing on the Hi-Fi. This proto-gamer is trying to decide if he needs to put more points into strength…
