As stated in the textbook MediaMaking popular culture is something (person, place, or thing) that is in mainstream media. A highly anticipated video game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, was released this past November. The video game is a first person shooter that takes the United States Military along with several other militaries worldwide [...]

Granted this is only Nintendo Japan and we’re not sure if it’ll take effect in the States yet (we can assume it will), here are a list of 3DS games users will be able to download for free due to the 3DS’s poor performance in sales; - F-Zero (“Maximum Velocity”) - Super Mario Advance 3 - Zelda: The Minish [...]

Happy Halloween everyone! As this joyous day of candy eating comes to a close and the parties are wrapping up we are going to do our Halloween Costume Contest. So lets get right down to it. The rules: 1. Like our Facebook page or be a fan already. 2. Submit a photo of yourself wearing [...]

Are there a lot of games out there that you want to beat but you can’t cause they just keep beating the shit out of you? We’ve been there, and that’s why we started The Checklist! We take games either we can’t beat or inexplicably haven’t beaten and try and finally conquer them. In this [...]

If you’ve been following my recent string of articles, you can tell I’m on a huge Nintendo DS Kick. After playing heavy hitters like 999 and Devil Survivor, I figured to have more fun I’d jump into the rhythm genre. I went right into Elite Beat Agents.It’s a fantastic, fun, and grueling game. Easy enough [...]

Arkham City is finally here and just like its predecessor its gotten the pricy 100 dollar limited edition treatment. This time around they’ve thrown the rather disappointing plastic Batarang out of the asylums window and replaced it with a statue of the Dark Knight himself, throw in some DLC and a nice art book and on paper its [...]

New York Comic Con has been over for a few days now and we have to say it was a blast. Now that we’re looking back on the con we have to say Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono stole the show, especially at the Street Fighter X Tekken Panel. The now legendary fighting game producer revealed the [...]

We’ve always been fascinated with the origins of our most beloved video game characters. However, their history isn’t always a Google search away. So without further a due we present to you Gil is Munny Origins, a new series that will dive into the past of gaming’s brightest stars and deliver you the hard factual [...]