It's the most wonderful time of the year.... With the gamers all playing and everyone telling you to ride the hype train... It's the most wonderful time of the year! It's the hype-hypiest season of all. With those leaks and rumors and speculative rambling when E3 comes by... It's the most wonderful time of the year! There'll be predictions to make and leaks to debunk and expectations to set... And tales of those failed E3's long, long ago... It's the most wonderful time of the year!  Oh, wait, are you guys reading this right now? Oh, sorry for my singing. It's just that I tend to get very festive this time of the year. *Ahem*. Where was I? Oh yeah, E3 2019 is finally here! The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 for short, is the annual gaming convention and press conference where gaming studios and developers take the curtains off from some of their biggest game and console projects and announcements for the public! It's no boring selectio...

Image Credit: Warner Bros./The  Pokémon  Company Recently, the trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie brought along plenty of memes, disappointed fans, and affirmation of one long-lasting “fact:” The video-game movie adaptation curse is real. Ever since the infamous failure of the Super Mario Bros movie in 1993, nearly every single attempt by movie studios to make a decent movie based on a video game franchise has been poorly received by fans and critics. So, if you told the haters one year back that a live-action  Pokémon  movie was in the works, they would probably insist that it would turn out terrible. But luckily, one film seems to have broken that curse. One film based on a Nintendo franchise, with live-action pocket critters and the voice acting of Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds. That film would be 2019’s Detective Pikachu, released a few weeks ago. I will be reviewing it today. Now, what exactly made video game movies in the past bad? ...

Gaming fans can rejoice: E3, a massive annual convention in Los Angeles, California, is just around the corner! What exactly is E3? Well, it stands for "Electronic Entertainment Expo" (which would be EEE or 3 letter Es) and is the event once a year when video game developers and console-makers come together to host a series of heavily-publicized press conferences. It was usually reserved for business members and journalists to enter and watch Top-Secret video game announcements, but it wasn't until very recently that E3 opened its doors to the public. That means that if you live near LA, California, you can be one of the lucky 60,000 people to watch game-changing announcements right as they happen, and play the most anticipated games of the decade years before they might actually release. I, as someone who lives on the opposite side of the States, am completely jealous of these people, but that's not the point of this post. The point of this post, as you can tell...