Street skateboarding is a hard thing to put into words. At face value, it’s quite simple—skateboarding in public areas using already built infrastructure, that wasn’t designed with skating in mind, to do tricks. But when you peel that back by one more layer, street skating gets a lot more obfuscated…

Hi. I haven’t written about games in a while. In fact, I just haven’t written in a while (so, sorry if this sucks). My day-to-day job involves writing, to an extent, and I’ve been busier than ever in that regard. Plus, I got burnt out on games writing and video…

Skateboarding is a solitary thing. Yes, we often do it with friends and our best tricks often come out during those outings with lots of folks around us to hype us up, to push ourselves, and to get back up after we get bodied by a rail or stairs, or…

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ― Herman Melville “Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a…

Rockstar Games (and games), if anything, are always a mess. A mess of tone, of bad jokes, of labor issues, storytelling, gameplay, racism, sexism, and everything in between. Even their most confident titles are stuck in a bog of “Uhhhh, okay?”. Yes. I am looking at you, Max Payne 3…

If you’re creative enough, then you can honestly skateboard anywhere. That is part of the joy of the sport—yes, it is a sport even though I see it as more of an art form. Street skating is finding joy, challenge, and pain in places that weren’t designed with skateboarding in…

If you know me, then you likely know how much I adore the Mafia games despite how rough around the edges all three entries in the series are. They feel unique in the AAA space and especially in the third-person open-world game genre. I’ve long been wanting to write a…

If you know me, then you likely know how much I adore the Mafia games despite how rough around the edges all three entries in the series are. They feel unique in the AAA space and especially in the third-person open-world game genre. I’ve long been wanting to write a…

“Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg… And my arm… even my fingers… The body I’ve lost… the comrades I’ve lost… won’t stop hurting… It’s like they’re all still there. You feel it, too, don’t you? I’m gonna make them give back…