In recent days the marketplace has been overtaken by Beatlemania again, and instead of young girls screaming at the top of their lungs for the foursome from Liverpool, the adoration has come mostly from journalists of all sorts. Critics who ...Read More
Free games (with micropayments) have had a love-affair with gamers, comparable to an open relationship. Both parties attempt romance with the expectation that there will be no commitment. Inevitably, in any open relationship, things get complicated. The developer arranges ...Read More
I will take this opportunity to introduce Alex Cybulski as one of the new contributors here at ULTRAKILLBOT. He's a good friend, and better, a very knowledgeable person about many things I am not - namely comic books, post-hardcore bands ...Read More
Culture, age, race, gender and everything in between are the topics that never cease to amaze me. One subculture in particular still continues to do so, and that is the hardcore video game community. Continually I find myself in utter ...Read More
So a few weeks I told everybody that Alex Cybulski (freelance writer, smart, guy, and game enthusiast), Alex Hayter (freelancer, game nut, and former EIC of The Cord Weekly) and myself (unemployed media critic), got together to record a Podcast ...Read More
I hit up Toronto Alternative Fashion Week (otherwise known as FAT) for the first time last night, and I have to admit that I was a little bit disappointed. It wasn't quite as epic and packed to the brim with ...Read More
First off, a little news. A few nights ago, in the company of beer, two friends and I recorded the first of what will hopefully become a regular thing: a podcast about video games conducted by three over-read university kids. ...Read More
Another post in my ongoing adventure into video game studies. Oftentimes if you aren't a hardcore gamer, the only times you hear about video games in the mainstream media is when they have been tentatively linked to murder, suicide, assault, carjacking, ...Read More
It's no secret that I love video games. Each week in this, my final year at university, I sit in class and learn more about them. It's often steeped in jargon and you will probably need a dictionary, but I ...Read More
