Fresh off of 2018’s chart-topping Beerbongs & Bentleys, Post Malone is back with his third studio album, Hollywood’s Bleeding. Read on for our full review.

Three months after the 24th anniversary of its North American release, we’re celebrating EarthBound and its 25th anniversary in Japan.

Weekend at Dave’s – Episode 5: David Silbert discusses the value of Xbox Game Pass, his backlog “keys” to fall 2019’s games, and why Quantum Break is so stellar.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Team Ninja’s latest crack at the long-dormant Ultimate Alliance series, is far from a perfect game. Still, the game as a whole just works, and not merely in the sense that its mechanics and systems function as intended; everything comes together conceptually, with the tone of the story and art style perfectly matching the chaotic ebullience of the gameplay. The game combines basic brawler systems with a cartoonish presentation and doesn’t try to be much more than that. Simply put, the game knows what it is and stays true to itself at all times.

Welcome back to Punished Notes, where I (occasionally) release all of my blandest and most anodyne takes on the world of video games. This week, we’ll be looking at some of my favorite user-created stages in Super Mario Maker 2, why I can’t get into a recent game everyone adores, and how I got emotional over a movie trailer after three seconds.

If you’d like to make your very own Breath of the Wild-inspired mushroom risotto, then try our recipe! It’s got more steps than throwing things in a wok, but this one sure is tasty.