Pacific Rim: The Black (First Impressions)
Our Animation Guru Cameron dives into the black for a first look at… Pacific Rim: The Black.
Read MoreNvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series Launch Issues - Tech View from Hawaii
Randy here with an update from the frontlines of the GPU Wars! With the release of Nvidia’s latest set of graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 30 series comes both good news and bad news. In short, the good news is that they’re awesome! The bad news is that some users are experiencing issues while playing games. That is, if they’re lucky enough to even find one of the 3080s or 3090s to buy in retail stores! <Sigh> Yet another tech shortage. Goodie.
Read MoreThe Comics Column #1: Dreams and Awakenings
Greetings, citizens of Earth-Prime! Neoplasmic here, with the first installment of the latest RPC feature series, The Comics Column! I’m going to be covering a bunch of comics I’ve been reading, some current and others a bit older. This time around, I’m going to discuss Artemis & the Assassin, Gotham Central, X-Men, Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team, Sandman, Lonely Receiver, and Marauders, so we have an eclectic mix to get through! Suit up and get ready to fly, everyone!
Read MoreOscar Best Picture Hopefuls
Whether the Academy can have this ceremony in a physical space or they will have to go virtual like every other award season so far this year, I'm looking forward to having a whole slate of movies to watch during the next few months leading up to it. It will also be the first Oscars season where they are implementing their new standards of diversity and inclusion for their nominees, so expect another incredible victory for misrepresented groups after Parasite winning Best Picture, so don't expect another Green Book situation anytime soon. It also explains the revealing stories of most of the movies that Variety predicts will be the frontrunners for the top prize. If the amazing buzz that these flicks have elicited is any indication, this will be a superb lineup and I can't wait to watch every one of them either in my living room or in the theater when it's safe.
Read MoreA look at Blake J. Harris' Console Wars - Rambling About Games #3
Neoplasmic here, with some thoughts on Blake J. Harris’ excellent non-fiction novel, Console Wars! Nostalgic, informative, and fast-paced to the point that I could barely put it down, Console Wars recounts the years-long battle for video game industry dominance between Nintendo (the big N, perennially in control of the market) and Sega (the scrappy, edgy underdog). Whichever one you owned or rooted for back then, the competition between both entities certainly resulted in an exciting time for those of us who remember the first Console War. Suit up, click the link, and be ready to enter the front lines!
Read MoreGPU Buyers Guide: Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 - RPC Tech #1
Welcome to the first installment of RPC Tech, our new article series on the world of technology! Leading us off with an article on the latest GPUs from Nvidia and AMD is Randy, aka rKochi, the newest addition to the RPC family! He’s giving us the view from Hawaii on the most cutting edge GPUs known to mankind! Enjoy the article!
Read MoreRambling About Games #2 - Halo Fades Away
Neoplasmic has some thoughts to share on one of his favorite video game franchises, Halo, particularly in light of the latest installment in the franchise’s delay. It’s the latest edition of Rambling About Games! It’s a long one, so please enjoy!
Read MoreRambling About Games #1 - Our Video Game Review Method
Hey, all! Your friendly neighborhood RPC founder and EIC, Neoplasmic, here. Just thought I’d write out some stuff about our video game content and rating system and what we love to do here. As you’ve no doubt discovered by listening to our awesome Renegade Arcade podcast, we love games, and we want to be clear about how we choose the games we cover, how we review them, and what our scores mean.
Read MoreAt the Edge of the Abyss - A Last of Us 2 Spoiler Review & Analysis
Here it is, at long last: our review of The Last of Us Part 2! A word of warning, however… as there are SPOILERS AHEAD! Since launching two weeks ago, this game has seen a lot of criticism and controversy over its themes, characters, and design. So what’s our verdict? Read on and find out!
Read More23 Marvelous Movies: Thor: The Dark World
Both Iron Man 3 and Thor The Dark World were released in 2013. Meanwhile, Warner Bros and DC had launched their cinematic universe with Man of Steel in that year as well, which was met with a disappointingly small box office intake and less than stellar critical reception. Many of the complaints lobbied against Zack Snyder's take on Superman were about how downbeat and overly bleak it was.
Read More23 Marvelous Movies: The Avengers
The Avengers was by no means the first film to cross different characters from different series together in one film. Freddy vs Jason, Alien vs Predator, Zatoichi and the One-Armed Soldier, King Kong vs Godzilla, and Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, just to name a few. But what it was the first of this kind of movie to treat like a serious stepping stone for its characters’ arc. It didn’t just bring these heroes together because it would be fun to see that. It brought them together because that’s why they made them in the first place.
Read MoreMay the 4th Be With You - Free For All #3
Welcome, fellow Star Wars geeks (and even those of you who aren’t!), to another episode of our general discussion podcast, the Free For All with Jacob, Mike, Josh, Kristal, and Keona! This week on the show, we dissect the Rise of Skywalker even further, dive deep into Captain America: Civil War, chat about Universal’s troubles with the North American Theater Owners (NATO), and we talk about the relevance of the Simpsons in today’s world. It’s a long episode, guys, but well worth a listen!
Read More23 Marvelous Movies: Prelude
Marvel is a word that, when said as a noun, means something that elicits amazement in the eyes of someone. For eleven years, to an entire world of filmgoers, a series of movies was precisely that, representing the changing tide of the whole cinematic landscape and a time when superheroes were not relegated to pulpy pages read by teens who frequented the nearest conventions. It was even the word that it went by.
Read MoreTrivium's Discography: Ranked from Worst to Best
One of my favorite bands of all time is Trivium. They are a 4-piece Heavy Metal band from Orlando, Florida that features Matt Heafy on lead vocals and guitar, Cory Beaulieu on backing vocals, Paolo Gregoletto on bass and backing vocals, and Alex Bent on drums. They were formed in 1999 and have since released 8 studio albums, with a new record set to release on Friday, April 24th.
Read MoreI Went to Hell and All I Got Was this BFG 9000 - A Doom Eternal Review
Renegade Pop Culture presents our Doom Eternal video game review! One of our favorite FPS franchises of all time, and the godfather of modern shooters (Wolfenstein 3D would by the grandfather), comes to hellish life in the form of this sequel to 2016’s reinvention of the series. So how did it turn out? Discover the truth in our RPC review!
Read MoreEditorial: Keeping Calm with Coronavirus
Let’s talk about the biological elephant in the room: COVID-19. Otherwise known as the Coronavirus.
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