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Article: Time Gal HD-Remaster

Arcades in the early 1980s enjoyed an explosion of popularity as the new art form swept the world and collected millions of quarters in the process. Kids love them.

Article: Ninja Hayate HD-Remaster

Arcades in the early 1980s enjoyed an explosion of popularity as the new art form swept the world and collected millions of quarters in the process. Kids love them.

Article: Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land

Ever since the glory days of construction paper and glue, I've been absolutely hopeless at crafting. Sorry, world, but you're not going to get any fantastic handiwork out of me.

Article: SteelSeries QCK Performance Mouse Pad

SteelSeries continues to knock their awesome lineup of products out of the park with one of their latest releases, the SteelSeries QCK Performance Mouse Pad. Going back to the drawing board on their original QCK pads and reworking them to be better in every way, they’ve come up with a perfect variety of new ones to fit any kind of PC gaming style.

Article: A Minecraft Movie (2025)

If I’ve learned one thing as a parent, it’s that kids love Jack Black. They loved him as the evil Bowser in The Super Mario Bros.

Article: A Minecraft Movie (2025)

A Minecraft Movie is a loud, chaotic rollercoaster built for one specific crowd: TikTok-savvy teens and gamers fluent in Minecraft-speak. If you’re not part of that world, buckle up - this movie doesn’t ease you in.

Article: Monster Energy Supercross 25

Milestone has been handling the official Supercross game releases for quite some time now. While some of them have been hits, a few of the later entries haven’t hit pay dirt like they should.

The State of Gaming April 2025: Switch 2 Announced, South of Midnight, Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, The Last of Us, Sega CD Returns, The Minecraft Movie Breaks Records

It’s The State of Gaming Podcast, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Listen as hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the world of interactive entertainment.

The Biggest Games of April 2025

The biggest games of the month include: South of Midnight, Steel Hunters, The Talos Principle: Reawakened, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero, and Tempest Rising

Other notables include: Blue Prince, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PS5), The Last of Us Part II Remastered (PC), Days Gone Remastered (PC, PS5), Forza Horizon 5 (PS5), Monument Valley (1+2 Switch), Ninja Hayate HD and Time Gal HD Remaster, Lunar Remastered Collection, Commandos: Origins, and Promise Mascot Agency.

Everything Else

But there’s more! Nintendo makes the Switch 2 official! It’s powerful! It’s expensive! It’s coming June 5! The Last of Us Season 2 returns this month! A Minecraft Movie breaks box-office records! And speaking of movies, the Death Stranding movie finds its writer and director in Michael Sarnoski (Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One).

Article: Muybridge (2025)

Unless you’re a student of photography or heavily interested in animation, chances are your only exposure to the name Eadweard Muybridge in recent pop-culture has been the brief mentions he gets in Jordan Peele’s 2022 release Nope, where Keke Palmer's character describes a two-second clip of a galloping horse being shown as the first example of a ‘motion picture’. It’s actually from a later effort, "Plate Number 626", in which the horse, Annie, is named while the jockey riding her is not.

Article: Rendering Ranger: R2 [Rewind]

There are two ways to talk about Rendering Ranger: R2, a hybrid run ‘n gun platformer and shmup (shoot ‘em up) from German developers Rainbow Arts released only for the Japanese Super Famicom back in 1995. The first would be to discuss the game on its merits, specifically how Rainbow Arts attempted to push Nintendo’s 16-bit hardware further than most in a time when the switch to newer 32-bit consoles was well underway.

Article: Mickey 17 (2025)

In the day and age where sci-fi introspections on working class exploitation like Severance are all the rage, Bong Joon Ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer) seems primed to deliver his own eccentric critique of capitalistic exploitation that would fit snugly into his previous lexicon, only this time with his biggest budget ever. It’s unfortunate that Mickey 17 is a surprising misstep in an otherwise stellar record of insightful and timely works.

Article: Snow White (2025)

Since its groundbreaking debut in 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has stood as the cornerstone of Disney’s animation legacy, setting the gold standard for fairy tale adaptations. As the first full-length animated feature, it not only changed the industry but also captivated generations with its timeless story and unforgettable characters.

Article: Assassin’s Creed: Shadows

Fans of the site won't be surprised to hear that I'm something of a Japanophile. I've visited the Land of the Rising Sun before, will be heading that way again soon, and am not sure I'm ever going to get over my love affair with the Far East.

Article: Black Bag (2025)

Deception is a core theme of spy films, where the tension between truth and lies drives the narrative. Steven Soderbergh's Black Bag takes this concept and places it within the more intimate confines of marriage.

Article: Split Fiction

It's not easy to make it as a writer! You've got to play video games all the time, write what you think about them, eat delicious snacks while you do it..