(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 ...
(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 ...