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Saturday Feb 22, 2025
Article: Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.
Saturday Feb 22, 2025
Saturday Feb 22, 2025
Time flies, doesn’t it? As SEGA’s acclaimed Virtua Fighter series celebrates its 30th anniversary, it’s almost hard to believe that nearly 2/3 of that time has been tied to the fifth iteration back when it originally hit the arcades in 2006. At that time, Virtua Fighter 5 was lauded as a next-gen marvel and served as a glimpse of what gaming hardware and the fighting game genre could be, if technical quality alone could carry a title.

Saturday Feb 22, 2025
Article: Nosferatu
Saturday Feb 22, 2025
Saturday Feb 22, 2025
I remember some time ago back in the early 90s when I rented a book from the library about classic monster films, and seeing the famed Nosferatu creature from the 1922 movie that creeped me out and still does. We now come to the latest take on this classic tale with Robert Eggers version of Nosferatu that’s filled with an amazing and eerie atmosphere that draws viewers in, but some may turn away from the long run time and slow burn it brings.

Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Article: X-Out Resurfaced
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Fans of classic shooters (or shmups, if you’re cool like that) were spoiled for choice in the late 80s and early 90s, though not equally. For US and Japanese gamers consoles ruled the roost, though in Europe the popularity of cheaper home computers helped created a world where Japanese-led productions weren’t the only game in town (pun certainly intended).

Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Article: Paddington in Peru (2025)
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Growing up with the British Paddington shorts from the early 80s, I’ve always been a big fan of the character and his many (and often comedic) adventures. Needless to say I absolutely loved the 2014 film as it captured what fans love about the famous bear perfectly.

Friday Feb 14, 2025
Article: Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Orcs Must Die! is one of those unusual franchises that's stuck around for long enough to have run into multiple industry-spanning trends and survived to tell the tale. The first two games, Orcs Must Die! and its sequel, were hybrid tower-defense and third-person shooters at a time when tower defense was the thing to be.

Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Article: The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2024)
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
It won’t take long, maybe a few pages, before ardent Haruki Murakami fans experience a sense of deja vu reading The City and Its Uncertain Walls, as if they’ve visited this place before. Which should be expected as his latest novel reworks not just 1985’s ‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World’, but also ‘The Town and Its Uncertain Wall’, a 1980 novella that remains untranslated from the original Japanese (and likely will, given Murakami’s dissatisfaction with it).

Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Article: Ninja Gaiden 2 Black (2025)
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is the type of game where you’ll destroy a floating air fortress loaded with missile-launching robo-ninjas after sparring with your demonic arch-nemesis, then escape to safety with a scantily dressed rocket launcher-toting femme fatale while piloting a motorcycle onto a snowy tundra where you’ll face off against a gigantic meteor-spewing turtle kaiju. And that’s just halfway through the adventure.

Friday Jan 31, 2025
Article: Dynasty Warriors: Origins
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
We've seen this story before, and plenty of us love it: ancient China has entered into an age of conflict. War rages across the land, laying low peasant and noble alike, and three kingdoms vie for supremacy over the nation.

Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Article: Dreo Solaris 718 Space Heater
Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Dreo is one of those companies where I’m always looking forward to what they’re coming out with next, as they continue to make awesome products even better year after year. A perfect example is their Solaris Max Heater they sent over back in 2022 that was already a great device, then the OH310 Radiator Heater last year that was even better.

Thursday Jan 23, 2025
Article: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Thursday Jan 23, 2025
Thursday Jan 23, 2025
Radiation gets a bad rap. Sure, it causes cellular damage, hair loss and weird mutations, but.

Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
The Consumer Electronics Show for 2025 is behind us, yet the memories of tomorrow’s tech remain. On deck for this CES recap are Popzara’s Senior Tech Editor Herman Exum and techie noob Nate Evans to take listeners through this year’s bits and bytes of what the future possibly holds for us. Sadly, while our favorite tech guest, Computer America’s Ben Crossman may have been absent physically, but he was ever-present in spirit.
While this year’s extravaganza may have been more iterative than innovative, there was still plenty to see and chat about now that the (digital) dust has settled. AI may have dominated the showroom floor (and headlines), but that’s not all! Crazy laptops, VR/AR headsets, faster monitors, stretchable screens, robot companions, cuddle bots, e-car updates, gaming handhelds, next-gen GPUs from Nvidia and AMD, cat accessories, salty spoons, and enough solar powered-goodness for everyone.

Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Article: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Remakes and remasters are interesting and quirky things. Many hope to capitalize on the desire for nostalgia.

Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Article: Wicked (2024)
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Whenever analyzing a musical film, I stop to think if the movie would be good — though not necessarily as good — without the music at all. Musical numbers should certainly enhance the filmgoing experience but they should never be the only reason why we enjoy it.

Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Article: Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Got a spaceship in need of a quick fix? Just drop by Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop! It's the premier* repair station that'll help your ship get back to being literally ship-shape. You'll play the role of Wilbur, a new employee of Uncle Chop's doing his best to fix up ships and make R.

Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Article: SPARKLE Intel Arc B580 TITAN OC Graphic Card
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
The market for desktop GPUs has changed considerably over the last few years, though not always in the best interests for consumers. In a market dominated by two companies, AMD and Nvidia, Intel has been called a much-needed alternative to the entrenched duopoly with the introduction of their Arc graphics cards.