Mercenaries Mode Returns to Resident Evil Village With More Strategy and Fire Power
Resident Evil Village, the franchise’s eighth main installment, drops on May 7th, 2021. The game is a direct follow-up to the protagonist, Ethan Winters’ story in Resident Evil 7. Once you beat the primary campaign, you’ll unlock the fan-favorite Mercenaries mode, an arcade-rush style of play where you clear out waves of enemies and make […]
Gaming Masterpiece Resident Evil 4 RE-Worked for VR Oculus Quest 2
Shinji Mikami’s Resident Evil 4 is widely considered a masterpiece in gaming. The title was initially launched in 2005 as a GameCube original, but sixteen years since its original drop, Resident Evil 4 is perhaps one of the most ported games in the industry. If you’re a true gamer, you can even play RE4 on […]
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Gamescom Impressions
One of the most anticipated PlayStation 5 exclusives is the latest entry in the Ratchet & Clank franchise. Some early Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart gameplay trailers and other promotional footage reveal that Dr. Nefarious is at it again. He crashes an event celebrating our heroes and attempts to use a Dimensionator to blast Ratchet […]
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart State of Play Impressions
During PlayStation’s April 2021 State of Play, we received more stunning gameplay from the much anticipated Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and some juicy deets on the different mechanics players can expect. We open on a Nefarious Juggernaught attacking Rivet & Clank in the pursuit of a missing Infobot. Ratchet has also crash-landed in this […]
Tall Vampire Lady Awoke Something In Me
Late Jan 2021, Resident Evil dropped the Maiden demo for their upcoming eighth installment in the series, Resident Evil Village. Village is a direct follow-up to “Resident Evil Does Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, and sees Ethan Winters reprising his role of most vanilla RE leading man. Franchise-hype remains decently consistent with new entries, and a new […]
Rebecca Black Drops ‘Friday’ 10 Year Anniversary Remix With Big Freedia, 3OH!3, Dorian Electra, 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady
2011 — The original Friday music video releases (through an exploitative label we won’t name). The video is awkward and silly, and the internet is incredibly mean about it. *Anime Time-skip.* A bunch of people submit to liking the song “ironically.” Then, true irony hits— ~liking things “ironically”~ becomes the new meta, and now you […]
VENN Launch First Impressions: Grey Area, Dare Package, and Looking For Gains
On August 5th, 2020, within the hellish ruckus of apocalypse, VENN launched its 24/7 live network. Geared towards gaming, streaming, Esports, and entertainment audiences, VENN broadcasts original programming from its studios in Los Angeles, with plans to stream from New York next year. VENN’s big feature push is its live frictionless broadcasts across multiple platforms, including; Twitch, YouTube, […]
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle & Teach 11-Year-Old Me Not To Take Sh** From Racists
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) is the most important stupid-ass stoner comedy film of the early-2000s. The film was written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (American Reunion, Cobra Kai), and directed by Danny Leiner (Dude, Where’s My Car?). Starring John Cho as Harold Lee and Kal Penn as Kumar Patel. The […]
The Carle Honors: Rohil Interviews Children’s Book Publisher Patricia Aldana on Representation and Healing Through Stories
I recently had the profoundly awesome opportunity to interview renowned children’s book publisher and 2021 Carle Honors Honoree, Patricia Aldana, as part of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art’s art auction and virtual fundraiser, “The Very Virtual Benefits & Auction.” A few things before getting into the interview, minimal edits were made to preserve the voice of the […]
The Carle Honors: Rohil Interviews Prolific Illustrator Raúl Colón.
I’ll never forget the overwhelming, pure unbridled joy and scintillating whimsy I felt visiting The Butterfly Conservatory at The American Museum of Natural History in New York. While at the conservatory, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar came up in conversation, and my impassioned friend could not compute that I had not read the book […]
