A Foreign World

I’m a big fan of the Order of Battle series, and while that’s mostly down to its snappy turn-based strategy, it’s…

In December of 1999, at the tender age of eleven, I received Donkey Kong 64. It was a birthday gift from my parents…

From Top Gun to Macross to Sega to GI Joe, the F-14 was a 1980s superstar

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The common assumption is that “Nintendo” (任天堂) means “leave luck to heaven” or even “to leave one’s fortune in the…

I had some very nice things to say about Total War: Warhammer a year ago when I reviewed it, but over the last week…

The first capsule hotel in the world opened in Osaka, Japan in 1979. Since then, capsule hotels have not only spread…

Littering is generally not a great idea. It’s an especially bad look if you’re an American Twitch streamer living…

Bathing is a well-used trope in film and TV. The “shower of angst,” for example, is usually a stand-in for an…

“I wanted a game that hated me.” That was how Sean Plott, also known as “Day9” in the professional gaming world,…