During the early days of modern consumer VR, I remember standing inside of an escape the room game, fumbling with some object, and thinking of the fun I had playing […]
You either love it, hate it, love to hate it, or love to give it to some unsuspecting person to try without warning them how polarizing it is. Jeppson’s Malört […]
One of the genres of video games I like best are racing games. I have loved them ever since the first ones I got my hands on for NES and […]
I’ve had a lot of roguelikes coming my way lately. Well, it’s been more like non-stop roguelikes and rogue-lites for the past few years—and that’s a good thing. Deep Sky […]
Chicago Children’s Theatre has launched a Play@Home Contest for school children stuck at home to get creative and make their own 5-minute videos and enter them in CCT’s contest. The […]
As the film industry, like the rest of us, grapples with how to move forward in the midst of a global pandemic, studios that had plans to release new films […]
Britain’s National Theatre Live has been presenting recorded plays in movie theaters for the past few years so American audiences can watch theater from across the pond. Large opera companies have been broadcasting taped […]
Community groups and faith leaders in Chicago are calling for more people to be released from Cook County Jail after a corrections officer tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend. […]
We’re introducing a new column here in our Beyond section today. It’s called The Bright Side and it will contain things designed to make you smile and restore your faith […]
Comanche is a game series I haven’t thought of in over a decade. So, you can imagine my surprise when THQ released into Early Access a futuristic helicopter game bearing […]
I’m a sucker for a good strategy game, and my years of early turn-based CRPGs like Fallout and Fallout 2 cemented my desire for turn-based combat in a post-apocalyptic setting. […]
Let’s face it, times are a little rough right now. Whether you’re accustomed to the indoor lifestyle or not, being stuck at home is another matter entirely. If you’re […]
