Editorial

In early 2008 a friend of mine introduced me to a game that would change my life. Open-world games existed, but weren’t necessarily prevalent. Regardless of how familiar the general public may have been with them, I was almost not at all.…

Disclaimer: May contain minor spoilers for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Mass Effect: Andromeda, The Batman: Arkham franchise, and Fallout 4 It’s that special day of the year we all set apart to celebrate dads. Some of our favorite dads…

Handsome Phantom Phans and Adventure Mode listeners will remember an episode a few months back where Brandon, Dustin, myself, and some other handsome gentlemendiscussed our game of the year for 2016. The discussion always came back around…

Disclaimer: hyperlinked text includes Wikia articles and YouTube videos that may contain spoilers for The Witcher video games Readers who checked out my first piece on role-playingmay recall I referred to the Witcher series as the greatest…

This Mother’s Day Handsome Phantom wants to take a moment to recognize the importance of moms in gaming. In a medium so flooded with shaven head white dudes standing in front of explosions, or high heeled clad warriors in miniskirts,…

You can tell me. It’s okay, I’m a friend. How many times have you watched The Last Jedi trailer? Just breathe. I’ve seen it about a dozen times, and each time I get that wave of hype that feels too good to ignore. Star Wars is one of those…

I was first shown footage of Horizon a couple of years ago. At the time, I knew nothing about it, and after seeing giant robotic dinosaur-looking creatures, I was a little hesitant (not being a big fan of the ancient reptiles). As a result,…

Roleplaying as a concept has had a checkered and meandering history. We can all picture the basement nerd stereotype in the seventies. They’ve got their twenty-sided di, a night’s supply of Pepsi, and Led Zeppelin is playing on the Hi-Fi.…