Everything Action at RetroGameCon 2024
Everything Action was back in Syracuse, NY, for RetroGameCon’s biggest event ever. Now three days long, the convention brought retro games, arcades, music, vendors, a panel, special guests, and more to Upstate NY, and Zach and Chris were there for all three days. Check out everything we experienced. History of RGC From simple beginnings to […]
Gamebox 2.0: Games of October 2024
This October the Gamebox 2.0 gave us a few tricks and plenty of treats. We got to reunite with some old friends on the baseball diamond for Backyard Baseball ’97, went Beyond Shadowgate for the sequel to the NES adventure game, combined tactics and deck building in Dark Sky, and unleashed our inner Bridezilla in Lethal Wedding. Check out everything we played this month below.
Review: The Killer’s Game
Dave Bautista battles a rogue’s gallery of colorful assassins in the over-the-top new action movie The Killer’s Game, which came out last weekend in theaters. Bautista plays Joe Flood, one of the, if not the, greatest assassin in the world. Falling for a dancer, Maizie (Sofia Boutella), Joe wants out of the “killer’s game,” but […]
Review: Subservience
Taking a cue from recent movies like M3GAN and 90s domestic thrillers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Megan Fox is a robotic housekeeper who goes out of control in Subservience. Michele Morrone stars as Nick, whose wife Maggie (Madeline Zima) has been hospitalized waiting for a heart transplant. Overwhelmed with the stress of […]
Review: The Union
The Union, Netflix’s latest espionage action movie, doesn’t reach the heights of movies like Extraction but it is significantly better than truly forgettable dreck like Heart of Stone and is carried by the real-life friendship chemistry of Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry.
Review: Trap
Since 2015, M. Night Shyamalan’s movies have been a roller coaster of the good, like Split and (mostly) Glass, and peak weirdness, like Old. Trap is probably the most mixed bag of his recent films. It has a solid premise and some effective sequences, but it is also full of his bizarre dialogue that sounds like an alien pretending to be human and some ludicrous plot beats, especially in the back half.
Preview of Pax Unplugged 2022
It’s that time again when you should turn off the game consoles, power down the PCs, and get back to old fashion paper and dice gaming. Pax Unplugged is returning to the Philadelphia Convention Center this December 2nd to 4th. This will be 3 days of panels, workshops, crafting, shopping, and tabletop gaming provided by […]
Review: Stan Lee’s Hero Command
Go into battle with Stan Lee in the fun new mobile game from F84 Games, which Chris got to check out at Atlantic City Boardwalk Con.