Antriksh Bali gathers an eclectic mix of local musicians with the WAVE: A Los Angeles Compilation. Besides Bali, we've got appearances from Lunar Drive, push.audio, Arma Puros, and Animals Over People. The whole soundtrack is worth a listen, and now I'm going to have to dig deeper into each of these individual talents as well…
I haven't played any Deus Ex games. Sorry. That is why I'm posting this fantastic cover of "The Synapse (Hong Kong Streets)" by Game & Sound…
Did you know that there was a time when Masahiro Sakurai didn't work for Nintendo? It's true! It happened once. Then they pulled him right back into the life. In that brief moment of Non-Nintendo clarity, Sakurai teamed up with Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his company Q? Entertainment to create a handheld puzzle game, as was all the rage at the time…
Once again the Pennsylvania based duo of Amanda and Matt Caucci bring us five tracks of soft, sometimes lofi, melodic rock tracks. It's really difficult for me to believe their last album was way back in 2017. Of course, anything before 2020 feels pretty distant now, but also for the fact that I bumped that little The Mimmos EP for years, basically up to, and alongside this latest release…
Every major Japanese development company has established their own major fighting franchise over the years, sometimes more than one if they lean into the fighting genre. Sega has Virtua Fighter, Capcom has Street Fighter, Namco has Tekken. Nintendo has Hogan's Alley. There is one major player missing though, Konami…
The main thing everyone remembers about this commercial is the big chandelier dragon, which is pretty cool, if you don't think about how fragile a glass dragon would be. That dragon was the entire 15 second ad spot you might have seen between cartoons on TV back in 2001. In the 30 second commercial there is a lot of lead up to the dragon, but I definitely won't call anything that happens as context for anything else. This is going to be a more serious effort than I was anticipating for a quick joke article…
