Blink And You’ll Miss It – “Before Your Eyes”

Rarely have videogames matched theme and "gameplay” as well as “Before Your Eyes,” released by Robert (“The Walking Dead”) Kirkman’s Skybound Games.  This is the story of Benny Brynn (aka, you, the player), who finds himself carted off by a Charon-like Ferryman to the afterlife.  This Ferryman is a one-eared coyote trying to hone his oratorial …

Spare Change August 20

Netflix's "Painkiller" is a little TOO entertaining in depicting how Richard Sackler and Purdue Pharma turned Oxycontin into the totally legal, doctor-approved drug behind America's opioid epidemic. (As the miniseries puts it, Oxy is basically "heroin in a pretty pill.") As Sackler, Matthew Broderick is a little too whimsical, a greedy Willy Wonka masterminding the …

Game Over : Sega – “The Murder of Sonic the Hedhehog.”

The best Sonic-related thing in ages is not a videogame, or a fast-food-chain, or a Jim Carrey movie. It's a NOVEL. (Ok, fine, a VISUAL novel. So technically a 'videogame.') But slow your hedgehogs! You'll be doing some dreadful (or delightful!) READING to solve "The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog." This is just Sega's best …