Artwork for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Flickr)   Remakes of older video game titles have become common within the gaming industry, but few games are fortunate enough to undergo multiple reincarnations. Titles that companies decide to remake must still show a great deal of potential for success despite already being familiar to audiences. Nintendo’s The Legend of…

Queen + Adam Lambert perform live at Nationwide Arena. (Cole Leis’21/Staff) Among the classic rock bands that characterized the ‘70s and ‘80s was Queen, a group that I have become familiar with and come to love over the past year or so. As such, when I learned from my parents on my birthday in January…

Logotype of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. (Wikimedia Commons) Few film franchises have garnered as much popularity as Star Wars over the years, and while the series has been in existence for more than four decades, it certainly isn’t anywhere close to being finished. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will, however, bring both Disney’s…

Billie Eilish performs live. (Wikimedia Commons) Throughout the past three and a half years, one thing has remained constant regarding the music of singer-songwriter Billie Eilish: the seventeen-year-old has no quarrel with breaking the entirety of the formula for pop music.  Hailing from Los Angeles, Eilish (along with her brother and frequent collaborator, Finneas) has…

A turntable plays a vinyl record. (Wikimedia Commons)   It was a cold winter’s afternoon—a Friday—and I had just gotten home after school. Tossing my backpack on the dining hall floor, where it ends up on every Friday, I descended into the basement and plopped myself on the couch to watch TV. After a few minutes of…

 Artwork for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Flickr   As I watched yet another Nintendo Direct come to a close, this being the one streamed live on March 8, 2018, I was left with a feeling of discontent. Something was missing. Sure, plenty of deluxe editions of games that had previously been released for the Wii…

Box artwork of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. (Flickr)   Between the announcement of Isabelle’s addition to the roster of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the announcement that a new Animal Crossing title for the Nintendo Switch is in the works (the second of which was delivered by a cartoonish, anthropomorphic raccoon called Tom…

Logotype of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Wikimedia Commons I sat down after plugging in and setting up my just-released Nintendo Switch with red and blue Joy-Cons in hand and my heart racing. After over four years of waiting, it was time to begin playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.…