Hello and welcome back to the Mid-Aughts Meltdown on its one-year anniversary, fresher and edgier for a new decade in all the ways you’d expect: we’ve got publisher-mandated bolted-on multiplayer; a fursona character creator 13 years before Sonic Forces, but … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #5 – Blinx 2

Hello and welcome to the spookiest entry yet in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s series on video game history! This week we’ll be confronting the history of licensed video games for the first and far from last time, starting with Disney’s … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #4: The Haunted Mansion

Hello and welcome back to the long-gestating Mid-Aughts Meltdown. This week we’re exploring the life and ultimate self-destruction of Acclaim Entertainment, through the prism of a return to my roots in bad 3D platforming in the 2003 game Vexx.  Information … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #3: The End of Acclaim Entertainment

From Ashley Graham to Mia Winters  This article is an expansion of previous thoughts I expressed on SingingBrakeman’s Resident Evil Franchise Festival, an amazing and wholly thorough article that I recommend for greater knowledge on the background of this series … Continue reading M-AM Mini: The Women of Resident Evil

Hello and welcome to the second entry in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s series on video game history. This week we’ll be exploring the ongoing struggle for anybody to compete in the party game genre against the terrifying colossus that is … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #2 – Fuzion Frenzy

Hello and welcome to the debut entry in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s new ongoing series on video game history. This week we’ll be delving into a strange and scary time for game development, the often ugly adolescence of 3D platformers, … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #1 – Blinx: The Time Sweeper