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The (Sony Exclusive) Game Awards 2024

Well that was hot garbage.  At least I played one of these award winning Sony Exclusives this year. Astro Bot — 4 wins (including Game of the Year), 7 nominations Metaphor: ReFantazio — 3 wins, 6 nominations Balatro — 3 wins, 5 nominations Black Myth: Wukong — 2 wins, 5 nominations Helldivers 2 — 2 wins, 4 nominations Senua's Sage: Hellblade 2 — 2 wins (including lead actor Melina Juergens' win for Best Performance), 4 nominations Helldivers 2 did win my heart last night.  During the awards what...

The Sony Buyout of Kadkowa Moves Forward

That headline either means nothing at all to you, or it makes you sick to your stomach.  I can’t think of a worse custodian for Kadakowa unless it’s Disney.  It’s hard to come up with an anime studio with a richer history than Kadokawa. Yes, Ghibli is more beloved but when you compare the body of work… Well, you can’t compare the body of work because they are on two entirely different planes of existence.  Putting the studio that created Your Name...

Sony Kills the Spiderverse

Tom Rothman has had enough. The chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures is done with superheroes. He got bumped up from Tri-Star to head Sony Pictures after his predecessor ran Columbia Pictures so far into the ground Sony Japan was seriously considering dumping it on the highest bidder. The problem was that Columbia was in such bad shape nobody was interested. In the post-DVD-crash world, franchises were king and Sony only had two. Spiderman and Adam Sandler. Everything...

Ubisoft Buyout Hits a Snag

Ubisoft's only hope right now is a buyout from Chinese giant Tencent. It looked like that was exactly what was going to happen. Except it turns out that Tencent isn't insane, which is a considerable stumbling block to this buyout going through. You see, the Guillemot, who has led the company into its current disastrous state wants to retain control of Ubisoft after the deal goes through. Tencent hasn't said why it's not cool with leaving Ubisoft's founding...

RE:Animation – My Neighbor Totoro

Tonari No Totoro like Rashomon is one of those films that a certain type of leftie likes to claim they totally love because it is so super deep on so many, many levels, and only urban sophisticates like themselves can truly appreciate how mind-bogglingly deep and complex the story is. And the odds are good they’ve never actually seen it.  I never met one that has actually seen Rashomon either.  My Neighbor Totoro is a good and not very deep movie.  It’s...

Map of the PERFECT Fantasy World

K-Pop Horror Story

K-Pop's treatment of their "Idols" is actually worse than the American music industry provided you didn't run into someone like Puff Diddler (I don't know how low the odds of that are). KG Crown (real name Kiera Grace Mudder) is a young pop performer who entered a survival show run by JY Park Entertainment called A2K. Basically a cattle call for American girls who love K-Pop and want to become Idols. All of them are minors, KG herself was...

The Final Solution to the Drow Problem

Screen Rant is declaring that WOTC "Must Deal with its Drow PROBLEM" before they can make a Drizzt movie. The problem is leftie brain-washing versus the foundations of storytelling. The dumb is just exhausting. In a nutshell, they're demanding the Drow be de-evil-ized because their brainwashing demands it. The fundamental problem is if you do that you completely ruin the character of Drizzt Do'urden. Look I'm not a member of the Church of Drizzt, but I was there when he was first...

Snow White’s Trailer: A Horror Story

Or at least I assume that's what it's going to be. It certainly looks like one. There is precedence for it. They weren't called Grimm fairy tales for nothing. In an early version of the story, the queen is actually Snow White's mother and loves her daughter deeply but then she is turned against her own child by the demonic power of a magic mirror that always tells the truth. The Charmed Prince executes her by making...

First Impressions: DC’s Creature Commandos

The star is always front and center This is the first of James Gunn’s new DC Universe shows.  Unless you count his James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad or James Gunn’s Peacemaker, regardless, this is the first project of his where he holds the keys to the kingdom. The truth be said, Gunn usually does better with a co-writer suppressing his worst instincts.  He doesn’t have one with Creature Commandoes. Let’s get at it. The logo is a rather promising start. It shows the OG...