XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003)
What happens when a mediocre film gets a sequel? Most of the time you get forgettable garbage – albeit the kind of film that you might see on TV quite […]
Pokémon Sword (Switch) – Oh I Say, A Jolly Good Return to Form, Mate
The Great Pokémon Controversy of 2019 threatened to overshadow the release of Sword/Shield – at least on Twitter. The non-inclusion of over half of the pre-existing Pokémon, or Dexit as […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – Tekken (2009) – Probably Not the Worst Film About Iron Fisting
I love Tekken. If there is one arcade-style fighting series I actually like and have even a small percentage of knowledge about how to win (I boast a 35% win […]
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered – Squall & Rinoa’s Bonkers’ Adventure is still super fun
Final Fantasy VIII is one of the best RPGs on the PS1 – having to follow the phenomenon of VII was no mean feat yet through some experimental gameplay ideas, […]
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) – a beautiful game about helping real strangers with their problems
Sometimes life is difficult. Sometimes letting the people who care about the most know about your issues is too difficult to fathom. Sometimes being okay feels like it is miles […]
Spending an Hour With: Mario Tennis Aces
“Spending an Hour With” is where I go through either a demo or, as is the case with this game, a game that is freely available for a limited time, […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – EVO Week – DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
This is gonna be a short review. I am not familiar at all with Dead or Alive as a series and after watching this film I feel like I know […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – EVO Week – Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
I am starting to sense a pattern forming this week. Mortal Kombat was quite fun. MK: Annihilation was quite terrible. Street Fighter was very fun. Legend of Chun-Li? Well you […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – EVO Week – Street Fighter (1994)
After quite liking Mortal Kombat and hating Annihilation, it’s safe to say that I have already had mixed feelings this week. Street Fighter was always going to go in one […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – EVO Week – Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
The first Mortal Kombat movie is very flawed but it is at least enjoyable to some degree. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was a chance to fix those flaws and provide us […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – EVO Week – Mortal Kombat (1995)
It’s EVO this weekend and since there is a bunch of movies based on fighting games it felt only natural that we would tie the two together. A movie review […]
Dragon Quest Builders 2 Review (Switch) – That’s Not Your Craft, It’s Mine
Dragon Quest Builders 2 is a game that wears its influences loud and proud on its sleeve. A cross between JRPG, Minecraft style open world sandbox and some almost Zelda-esque […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
It’s quite easy to forget just how huge of a phenomenon Lara Croft was when she first burst into the scene with her double guns (not an euphemism) and a […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – Wing Commander (1999)
I have no familiarity with the Wing Commander series of games, I have never played the games and I have no knowledge of the deep lore of the franchise. I […]
Depixtion (2019) – Triple Picross Mania to Soothe the Soul
Picross is one of those games I go to if I want ten minutes or so of chill out time. Maybe at the end of a heavy session of Big […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – Double Dragon (1994)
Double Dragon, the video game, is about two brothers punch and kicking their way to save a kidnapped girlfriend. It is a fairly basic premise but that is all you […]
