(AfroGamers.com) Let me talk about something that has been sitting heavy on my chest since the first trailer dropped and everybody lost their minds over Lucia. That feeling did not disappear when Rockstar released its extended look. If anything, seeing more of the world made the question harder to ignore. ...
(AfroGamers.com) The Tekken franchise dropped in 1994. First in the arcades and shopping center entryways and months later on the original PlayStation in March 1995. My first actual encounter with Tekken was in 1996 via a Tekken 2 combo guide in a gaming magazine. Which magazine escapes me and I ...
(AfroGamers.com) Romance anime involves a dynamic field of possibilities when it comes to how ‘love’ is explored in animated storytelling. The genre can be heart-breaking, heart-warming, hilarious and frustrating – all good emotions to go through so long as we all finally get to see our favourite couples have their ...
(AfroGamers.com) For plenty of us, the introduction happened on a couch. Cartoon Network, weekend morning, cereal going soggy while a show opened cold. No longbox required. A comic shop pilgrimage and a wiki deep dive weren’t part of it either, since we understood the picture in front of us on ...
(AfroGamers.com) The idea of releasing an unfinished game to the public used to be the height of indignity for developers and would have been ripped apart in the gaming press for being borderline scammy. But things have changed a lot, with early access releases on Steam setting a new precedent ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nobody warned me what that chainsaw would do to my nervous system back in 2006. First time it caught a Locust mid-lunge, my roommate came flying out the kitchen convinced somebody was getting jumped in our living room. Just me. Hunched over a controller, sweating through a cover shooter ...
(AfroGamers.com) I still remember the first time a pack of Gyarados whipped the ocean into a cyclone and wrecked everybody’s whole afternoon. Saturday morning, bowl of cereal going soft while I sat frozen on the carpet. Back then the show did not care about keeping you comfortable. It wanted you ...
(AfroGamers.com) Whenever some new convert acts like anime just took over the world, I have to laugh a little. Scroll any timeline right now and you would swear the whole thing got invented last Tuesday, born the day Demon Slayer started trending. That notion skips clean past the folks who ...
(AfroGamers.com) Some nights the memory that sticks isn’t the blockbuster everybody quotes. It’s the odd little gem that aired late, the one you caught half asleep on the couch while the rest of the house had gone quiet. For a certain kind of kid raised on Toonami and later Adult ...
(AfroGamers.com) Growing up on Toonami, I fell in love with the loner. You know the one. Posted up in the corner while the rest of the cast cracked jokes and passed the food, arms crossed, eyes low, not a word out of him because the quiet itself read as untouchable. ...