MFWF Monster Mania Review

Monster Factory Wrestling Federation is the wrestling arm of Monster Factory, Polygon’s series of deep dives into the nooks & grannies of character creation menus. Monster Mania is their contribution…

PTBN Play: Top 10 Spouse Board Games

On this edition of PTBN Play, Jennifer Campbell shares her top 10 favorite board games with Chad Campbell. Jennifer discusses why she enjoys playing board games and the attributes of…

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #31: Countdown — Marvel Comics Video Games

Mild-mannered reporters by day, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke share an intense love of comic books that has made them the Hard-Traveling Fanboys. And if there’s anything that fanboys love,…

PTBN Play: Rank & File – Top 10 Tabletop Games

As part of our over-arching PTBN Play series, in the latest episode of Rank & File, Jordan welcomes Chad Campbell and Glenn Butler back to the show! This time, they…

PTBN Play: An Introduction

Join Brad Woodling as he introduces the PTBN Play series as well as the main hosts/co-hosts of the brand new endeavor: Glenn Butler, Jordan Duncan and Chad Campbell. The guys…

Rank & File: Top 16-bit Video Games

On this episode of Rank & File, Jordan is joined by Andy Halleen and Brad Woodling to rank our favorite 16-bit video games. We span a huge swath of video…

Welcome to NBA Jam: The Retrospective

NBA expert Andrew Riche and gaming expert Maurice Pogue go “Boom-shaka-laka!” all over you as we discuss how an early 90’s video game changed everything. Andrew Riche: It’s amazing to…

The Wall of Shame

On October 1st, I began a(nother) fast from video games. I did not do so arbitrarily, nor did I do so “willingly” in the sense that I knew that it…

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You Part 3: The International 2014 Adjournment

If TI4 were a snake, I would have been bitten. One day, I’m logging on to DotA 2 to see if any of my friends are on so we can…

Backloggery Beatdown: Mark of the Ninja

Credit for wallpaper image goes to SuperbWallpapers Some hardcore gamers fancy speed runs. Others might do zero death runs. During the 16-bit era, I enjoyed performing no-shuriken runs in Shinobi…