(AfroGamers.com) Back when I was coming up, the future actually had a shape to it. You could see it. Neo-Tokyo lit orange and tearing itself apart under a swollen sky, for starters. Then a cyborg woman steps off a high rise into neon and rain like gravity means nothing to ...
(AfroGamers.com) Everybody kept saying the big war shooter was dead. Dead like the arcade, dead like couch multiplayer, dead like the LAN party you used to drag your tower across town for. The suits looked at the numbers, saw a hundred bodies crammed onto one map going nowhere, and decided ...
(AfroGamers.com) Everybody reaches for the same title. Somebody asks what to watch, adds the science fiction qualifier, gestures at Japan, and here comes the reflex. Cowboy Bebop. Every single time. And look, that pick earns its throne. Watanabe built something jazzy and cool and mournful, a bounty hunter road trip ...
(AfroGamers.com) I have gotten dropped in Call of Duty more times than my ego wants to admit, and not once did my gut clench up. You eat a bullet, the screen barely reacts, and you are moving again, chewing the same stick of gum before the irritation even lands. Reload, ...
(AfroGamers.com) Let me tell you what gets me. Every couple years a fresh crop of fans finds anime, falls all the way in love, and starts talking like the medium got born around the time they made a streaming account. No shade to the young folks, the passion is beautiful. ...
(AfroGamers.com) If you came up in the streaming years, your gateway into this world probably looked like a phone screen and an autoplay button. One tap and you were neck deep in a season of something loud and gorgeous, subtitles flying by, the next credits already skippable in a heartbeat. ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every couple months the timeline catches fire over the newest seasonal darling, and honestly, I feel the hype. But scroll past all that gloss and you hit a graveyard of forgotten greatness, discs and tapes that once ruled the racks at Suncoast and the back wall of Blockbuster. The ...
(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 ...