The success of 2022 roguelike shoot-em-up Vampire Survivors took everyone by surprise, but no one so much as its creator, Luca ‘poncle’ Galante. Galante began development of Vampire Survivors while unemployed in 2020, deriving inspiration from mobile game Magic Survival and Galante’s past experience developing flashy graphics for slot machines. He never intended Vampire Survivors… Read More »
This “Broeg & Baseball” column, by weekly contributor Bob Broeg, first appeared in the Jan. 20, 1973, issue of The Sporting News, musing at the time on several topics related to Roberto Clemente, including whether the standard five-year waiting period for induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame should be waived for the Pirates star… Read More »
Nearly a week since its streaming debut on Paramount+, it has been officially announced that Paramount Pictures’ blockbuster action sequel Top Gun: Maverick has now become the streamer’s most-watched movie globally. The Paramount + record was previously held by Sonic the Hedgehog 2. This new achievement comes after it scored two Golden Globe nominations for… Read More »
College football fans checking out the upcoming bowl slate will soon make a shocking discovery: there are not one, but two, bowl games taking place in the next week with Cheez-It in the name. You heard that right. This year’s lineup of bowl games is quite possibly the cheesiest (cheeziest?) ever. But why are there two different… Read More »
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler recently spoke about how he handled T’Challa/Chadwick Boseman’s passing in the Marvel sequel. When asked about why they started the sequel with T’Challa’s death, Coogler explained his reasoning. “We wanted to have an emotionally intelligent conversation,” Coogler told The New York Times. “It’s about the transformative quality of… Read More »
The last “Thursday Night Football” matchup means a lot to one squad, and maybe not so much to another. The Cowboys are still angling for an outside chance at the NFC East, and a win on “TNF” could get them that much closer. While an Eagles win on Sunday will clinch the division for Philadelphia,… Read More »
After a turbulent start to the season, from firing head coach Steve Nash, to Kyrie Irving’s suspension, Kevin Durant’s trade request and Ben Simmons’ initial struggles in his return from injury, the Brooklyn Nets were a mess. Fast forward to December and the Nets under Jacque Vaughn have been revitalized, surging up the Eastern Conference standings… Read More »
Now it’s time for the negativity. The stuff I least enjoyed reviewing. I’ve sandwiched this part between two positive articles, so we don’t end this retrospective on a low note. Now, of course, media is mostly subjective, and sometimes I even warm up to stuff I gave a bad or lukewarm review to before. Stuff… Read More »
With everything going on over at Warner Bros. in regards to the DC Universe, it might be nice to go back to a time when the team was (maybe) thriving, all of our favorites were (sort of) there, and things just seemed simple — in a way. Okay, so the 1997 Justice League of America… Read More »
Director Kristoffer Borgli took to Instagram to share the first behind-the-scenes photos from the set of A24’s Ari Aster-produced comedy film Dream Scenario. The photos give us our first look at Nicolas Cage’s unnamed leading character, as the Oscar winner goes through another hair transformation. His character is previously described as a “schlubby professor who… Read More »