There are a few ways one might look at this past weekend’s chic box office win for The Devil Wears Prada 2. As an observer who never gilds the lily, one can imagine Meryl Streep’s Ms. Priestly coolly stating, “A legacy sequel hitting big? In May? Groundbreaking.” Yet we, and

The point of video games, if you ask anyone, is to play them. Or it was, before the advent of streaming content and personalities, who make a living out of playing games in front of an audience. Often, they’ll play games so their audiences can buy a copy for themselves,

The idea of multiplayer games, particularly ones with hundreds of players online at the same time, is something we are quite used to. But this didn’t used to be the norm; in fact, the progression between how gaming started and where we are now was a slow but steady one.

Stories are driven through conflicts, showing us how characters either solve these conflicts or make them worse. If everyone in these tales acted rationally or without ill intent, stories would go nowhere, so there is a need for conflict-seeking characters. Even if, sometimes, they feel like too much. And too