There is one great constant in video games that I will never get tired of. It transcends console specs, controllers, and all other genres of games that dear to my heart. That is fighting games in general, and Street Fighter in particular. No other series have I sunk more time, energy, and money into than […]
As a kid, video games were nothing more than mild amusement for families, treated as something more like a novelty. This, of course, was more a limit of the technology at the time than anything else, but also in the 1980s video games were barely around for 20 years. Music was minimal at best, with […]
I am an American history fan in many respects: I possess the books 1776 and John Adams by David McCullough (as well as the HBO mini series by the same name), Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick, and His Excellency by Joesph Ellis. Also I possess and obsessed over Assassin’s Creed […]
I am a zombie genre fan, no question. The Walking Dead being the most recent, and most popular, take on a post-apocalypse outbreak really roped me in. While there are decades of movies and video games devoted to this universe I was only mildly interested in them (all due respect to George Romero and Capcom’s […]
(Originally published June 3, 2013) I’m a “retired” cosplayer (what that really means who knows) in most respects, but on occasion I will attend a convention for a day to let out a little fandom steam. Wizard World Philly being one of two that I usually hit up each year now, they have done a […]