Explaining the current state of gaming to boomers
Boomers are a mysterious lot. They like beige saloon cars, spending their kids inheritance, talking about how easy it is to get a job and buy a house (if you…
Op Ed
The miniscule modern audience
The face of the games industry has changed a lot since about 2008-ish. When gaming started to go mainstream, you had a lot of people flood into the industry who…
Body Type A & B is dehumanizing
Runescape pushed an update this week which removed male and female from the character creation screen, instead replacing them with "Body Type A" and "Body Type B". This has conservative…
Don’t give Linux to your elderly relatives
I've been dabbling with Linux for nearly two decades now. While I've been bearish about it in the past, the penguins have come a long way in the last few…
Taking a vacation from gaming
Gaming in 2024 is just the pits. It seems like every day we're bombarded with more negative news. Whether it's layoffs, yet another broken release, low review scores, dead multiplayer…
Limited Run Games, and the industry’s gatekeeping problem
Video games have a big problem with gatekeeping, and not in the way the mainstream games press would like you to believe. Gamers have often been accused, among other things,…
Are video games sedating young men?
Video games have flirted with controversy since their earliest days. Yet despite the medium being a mainstream pass time for over a decade now, the hobby continues to elicit side…
Where I’ve been and why I don’t post much anymore
So, you'll probably notice that I haven't posted much in the way of new opinion pieces or gaming news lately. I'll go through sporadic periods where I'll write a ton…
Canada’s telecom oligopoly is a major national security risk
On the morning of July 8th, 2022, a third of Canadians woke up to discover they had no access to internet or cell service. A misconfiguration done during routine maintenance…
What the heck is going on with 2D Sonic?
Sonic Mania is widely considered one of the best games in the series, if not one of the best 2D mascot platformers ever made. The game was considered a fine…