What Happens When You Play a Game Decades After Its Height? Here’s something that everyone on this planet has experienced: Somebody is telling you a story with great enthusiasm hoping to elicit a certain response…
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From Sports to Esports and Vice-Versa It’s not unheard of for actual sports stars to get into the esports scene, as demonstrated by former NBA player Rick Fox who owns the esports organization Echo Fox.…
Hi. You probably don’t know me. Without getting too into it, I’m a friend of the Punished Backlog team. The other day, as we were discussing our beloved Patriots heading to another Super Bowl, halftime got brought up. Rumors are that Maroon 5 may be putting on a tribute to SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg, which lead to a controversial opinion within our ranks on the matter. One thing led to another, and I started telling everyone which halftime show was best, but it got too complicated and turned into a full-length article and now we’re here. Fun times.
Starting off the New Year Right New year, new me! Well, probably not, but I do acknowledge the importance of forming New Year’s resolutions each year, even if I rarely ever make good on such…
The Punished Backlog Crew’s Creative Endeavor: Inktober 2018 Hopefully this year’s “Spooky Month” treated you well, unless you’re reading this in the future, in which case this doesn’t apply and also has Todd gotten to…
Big Predictions for the Biggest Night in Games Correction: Don’t expect to see The Last of Us Part II Thursday night, as Naughty Dog recently tweeted that they don’t be showing anything from the title at…
Everyone Is Here I’ve always believed the strength of a fighting game’s roster helps to define it’s longevity. It’s one of the reasons the Super Smash Bros. franchise is so infinitely replayable. For Super Smash…
Disclaimer: This game is super long and I have so many thoughts about it, and there’s just no way one article can encompass all of those thoughts. Red Dead Redemption 2 might very well be…
It’s been a while! Life gets in the way sometimes, so I haven’t been able to fire off my blazing takes for nearly two months. For this edition of Punished Notes, I’m doing a big…
It’s Real Okay, yes. This is a real tattoo that’s on my fleshy, human Earth body until I die. And I did, in fact, give it to myself. Even though it’s small, this piece requires…