I know serious TV criticism and news coverage has been in trouble for a while, like everywhere else in media, but like a frog enjoying an ever-warming afternoon bath, I
Man, I sure am enjoying this season of Fortnite, my favorite persistent, open and interoperable ecosystem.1 And thanks to Disney’s new $1.5 billion investment, I can’t
Confession time: I had huge reservations ahead of Infinite Wealth's release. Not for the game itself--the Yakuza series is nothing if not dependable--but for one of my favourite
It’s a big day for AI in journalism–or at least, for Microsoft. This morning, Semafor revealed a partnership with Microsoft to bring AI to its newsroom. Meanwhile, CUNY’
On Friday night, the inscrutable whims of the YouTube algorithm landed me on Barber Westchester, a full-length, independent animated film from 2021 that I’d never heard of before. Here’
Over the weekend a number of reports have emerged claiming that some of the Xbox brand's biggest exclusives--including Starfield and the upcoming Indiana Jones game--are going to be
Public implosions are on my mind this week. On the journalism side of things, we saw media startup The Messenger shut down after less than a year in the centrist
Releasing a free-to-play short game based on Silent Hill was always going to be a losing endeavor. The comparison to P.T. looms heavy in everyone’s mind as a
Last night I downloaded the “early access” version of Suicide Squad, a lightning rod for controversy that happens to come bundled with a video game. After playing for an hour,
Welcome back to another instalment of Luke Looks Too Closely At Yakuza Shopfronts! In our last episode we were simply admiring the craftsmanship of every little ramen joint and small
