Netflix snuck into the narrative video game business late last year when it released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Ostensibly a film based on the hit Black Mirror series, Bandersnatch followed the structure of a “choose your own adventure” story, allowing viewers to make choices for the movie’s protagonist that would produce branching narratives. You can play…
Anthem is a hard sell for me. I’ve been wary of MMO shooters since Destiny hyped me up only to disappoint me. The game had an archaic mission structure, what little story it had was buried in menu text, the loot system was terrible, and there wasn’t a whole lot to actually do at all….
Horror Noire, a documentary produced for the horror-centric streaming service Shudder serves as a companion piece to Robin Means Coleman’s recent book Horror Noir: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1980s to the Present. Directed by Xavier Burgin, it expands the book’s scope to contextualize the often overlooked and misunderstood presence of black Americans…
In 2005, Erik Alm was 24 and living in Stockholm, Sweden, after dropping out of the prestigious KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden because he had been playing too much Doom and Diablo II. He was a bright, straight-laced chemistry student with a shaved head and friendly smile, and he was now enrolled at…
