If you’d told me back in 2006 that Monolith Soft would go on to become one of Nintendo’s most talented and indispensable first-party development groups, I would have said the same thing as everyone else: “The guys who did Xenosaga ?” Read more...
Having watched Cannibal! The Musical is one of those things that feels like a badge of honor. The movie was not something anyone saw first in theaters. It had to be discovered . You had to find it or be told about it by a friend. When you finally watched, you were rewarded with proof of pure genius—a film that by all… Read more...
Hollywood has been thrown into a tumultuous crisis by the covid-19 pandemic. Production on movies has come to a standstill, and those that have attempted restarts have faced struggles and stalls as the industry attempts to reckon with the mass crews required on blockbuster bread-and-butter complying with new safety… Read more...
The release of the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. seems to confirm that Nintendo has no plans to revive or revisit the Game Boy as it did with its NES and SNES throwback consoles . It’s time to move on because there are other companies happy to indulge your Game Boy nostalgia. With a matching Famicom-inspired design, … Read more...
For millions of people, Thanksgiving is going to look a little different this year. Because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, I’ve chosen to stay home instead of traveling for the holiday and interact with my family over video. But it doesn’t just have to be making an awkward toast to “These Strange Times” before… Read more...
Last week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery put Michael Burnham in a hard place. At a crossroads between the potential new life she’d found in the 32nd century and her commitment to her family in Starfleet , our hero faced the consequences for trying to have it all. This week, the show decides that the actual solution… Read more...
Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu had a meeting with Saudi meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. There are also reports that Saudi Arabia is pressuring Pakistan to normalize relations with Israel. The Brookings Institute believes there are three possibilities for the Israel-Saudi meeting. 1. Actually achieving some normalization deal would make it difficult for Biden to re-enter a nuclear deal with Iran. The current US administration can still place the Houthis on the terrorist list and place new sanctions on Iran. 2. The meeting itself is telling the Biden Administration that another US-Iran The post A Race to Close a Gamechanging Deal With Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .
We live in a world of media oversaturation. There is so much stuff out there now that, even in a year where we’ve had (slightly!) fewer new things to watch, there’s been the chance to dive back into familiar favorites, things we missed, and drown ourselves ever further. Sometimes it’s just to distract, something to… Read more...