Assassin's Creed Shadows is gorgeous, but does it succeed in the narrative it’s trying to tell? And how does it balance historical accuracy with having a good time? On the latest episode of Aftermath Hours, we talk about it.
In Assassin's Creed Shadows nature is, for lack of a better word, dense. This is not just a problem that games set in Japan have; it’s a problem that open world games set in nature have on the whole. Forests do not feel like forests, they feel like video game forests.
As a general rule, I respect what The Wirecutter does. Aside from being owned by The New York Times, a genocidal and transphobic rag whose editorial board frequently undermines good
Recently I went to CanJam NYC, a headphone convention that took place on the sixth floor of a Marriott in Times Square. Can Jam rocks because it’s full of
I am trying not to make Aftermath into a knife-focused blog, despite having already written glowingly about Japanese utility knives. But I’m afraid that I must also recommend my
Neon White designer Ben Esposito once joked “in game design, ‘environmental storytelling’ is the art of placing skulls near a toilet.” I have yet to see a toilet in Avowed,
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HBO had a series of legendary stand-up specials in the 1990s,
There are certain games or works of art that I cannot recommend without severe caveats. Beyond Citadel fits this category. It is an unapologetically horny game that contains brutal and
There are certain areas where Chinese companies currently dominate: amplifiers, affordable earbuds and in-ear monitors. So when I saw a forum post and multiple YouTubers recommended a sub $50 bluetooth
Over the last few weeks, Elon Musk admitted to cheating at video games. While the entire story is supremely embarrassing for him, I am also offended on a fundamental level
