GoldenEye: 007 – The Game That Taught Consoles How to Shoot
The first rule was simple: NO LOOKING AT MY SCREEN. Before Halo became the console-FPS standard, there was a room full of kids staring at four tiny rectangles on a CRT. Facility. Archives. Complex. Proximity mines. Slappers only. Somebody picking Oddjob and immediately becoming a war criminal. The GoldenEye Everyone Remembers For an entire generation, […]
The French Revolution Won (Then Had to Govern):
The Beginning or the Middle? On September 21, 1792, France abolished its monarchy. The following day, it restarted time. September 22 became the first day of Year One of the French Republic. No more king. No more subjects. No more government claiming its authority had been handed down through a royal bloodline. France would now […]
A Layman’s Guide to the Canadian Football League: Football. Just a Little Different
Opening Kickoff Say “professional football” in the United States and most people’s brains go directly to one place. Fair enough. It is enormous. It has the biggest stars, the biggest television audience, the Super Bowl, fantasy football, RedZone, and enough weekly analysis to make third-and-seven feel like a matter of national security. But professional football […]
Saint Seiya: How Did America Miss One of the Biggest Anime on Earth?
There are anime Americans know are huge. Your standard bearers. Then there’s Saint Seiya. Depending on where you grew up, that name might immediately unlock childhood memories of armored warriors, constellations, impossible battles and somebody screaming about their Cosmo. Or you might be an American anime fan staring at this article thinking: Wait. Knights of […]
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla – Between the Chronicle and the Saga
To end our unofficial Viking week, we’re playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Wednesday, Ragnar Lothbrok belonged to the wondrous. Thursday, we put down the saga, picked up the chronicle, and asked which pieces of his legend history could actually hold. Now we get to step into the space between them. The Familiar Version Assassin’s Creed Valhalla […]