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The Not-So-Big Question: You Have a Hole in Your Pop
In his review of Tuesday night’s episode of The Goldbergs, Paste reviewer Mark Rozeman revealed his shameful secret—he had never seen that B-level touchstone of the 1980s, The Goonies. For a pop culture aficionado of that very decade (and a few others, at that) like Mark, this was a brave admission, indeed. But he also pointed out that he had “heard enough Goonies quotes and seen...
The 20 Best Summer Blockbusters of All Time: 'Jaws' is No. 1
When I was growing up on the Jersey Shore, mere miles from the 1916 shark attacks that Peter Benchley used as inspiration for his best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg’s Jawshad a profound effect on my summers. Whenever I was alone in the water, I inevitably began to fear that I was being stalked by something beneath the surface. The panic would grow and grow — as John Williams’ daaa-dum music...
Travel and Videogames: Missing Play in Beijing
I often get cheap dinners in Beijing. I can
get a plate of green peppers with chicken in a spicy sauce with rice
for less than $2. Beijing is fun, but it’s not the easiest place to live
in. There’s the long gray streets, the dust (from construction and sand
blown in from Mongolia), and the air pollution, a silent danger to
everyone.
On the subway to work, it’s crammed with people and the smell of
sweat...
Irony-Free Friday: A Close Reading of Pitbull's "Timber"
Every once in a while, we here at Paste are
going to try to slough off the lens of irony through which so much
modern entertainment is viewed. We’re going to give the
so-bad-it’s-goods their sincere due and take an earnest look at the
things you might think can only be enjoyed ironically. It’s Irony-Free
Friday.
Pitbull Must Be Stopped
There’s an old philosopher; his name is Kant. He came up with a...
Learning to Let Go: Time and Memory in Games
On Thursday at this year’s GDC, I attended game designer Yoko Taro’s talk “Making Weird Games for Weird People”. The Japanese director of Drakengard andNier first talked about his design process, but it was the latter half of the talk, where he began making a distinction between what games can and can’t do, that was the most interesting.
A light circle represented what games “can” do. The dark field...
Maddy Myers and Samantha Allen on Manveer Heir's GDC Talk
In her Game Developers Conference recap earlier today, Paste’s assistant games editor Maddy Myers discussed Manveer Heir’s GDC talk about diversity. Here are some notes Maddy passed with fellow Paste contributor Samantha Allen during Heir’s lecture.
MADDY: I’m not wild about this talk so far. I feel like he’s really focused on studies and jargon.
SAMANTHA: Yeah. This line about stereotypes...
The Best Responses to the Facebook Acquisition of Oculus VR
Tuesday was a heavy news day. Gwyneth Paltrow broke up with Chris Martin, Google flipped off Amazon by cutting its cloud platform prices, and the Kimye marriage still looked like it was going to happen.
And then, before the day was over, a news bomb went off: Facebook announced that it was acquiring Oculus, the tech startup behind the Rift virtual reality headset that spawned this beautiful Tumblr....
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