Media takes on a whole new dimension when you share it with other people. Discussing or analyzing it is one thing, but experiencing something as a group can make it so much more enjoyable. Caitlan Oram writes about the pleasures of playing videogames with an audience: A person’s reaction to somethin
Metallica (The Black Album) was the beginning of the end for the band. It marks the start of their “sellout” phase, which you may disagree with, but you can’t dispute their change in sound (ostensibly due to producer Bob Rock). Releasing back to back albums entitled Load and Reload is bad enough, bu
Jenn Frank wrote a tragic and beautiful piece about the death of her mother. It reads the way your mind reels after a tragedy. It’s that flurry of emotions where you feel every kind of awful: angry, regretful, hopeless and helpless. Here is an excerpt: I’d worked so hard to improve my mother’s condi
Boy do I want a Vita. I always wanted a PSP, but being an aspiring videogame journalist (poor) and already possessing a DS, I never could justify it. Then the Vita came out I promised myself I was going to buy it when the price dropped. The price dropped, but at that point about 1000 articles scryed
Television advertisements are usually boring or insulting. There are the occasionally inspiring or well produced, but as a whole TV adverts have the superb ability of inspiring misanthropy. And videogame advertising? There is the tried and true product placement, but there are also entire games devo
