“What’s in the box?” Paul Atreides asks this simple question in an iconic scene from the original Dune text from Frank Herbert in 1965. Those of us who have been fans of that book or any of its film adaptations shared a similar uncertainty about...
It was the fall semester in 1995, and I was in my senior year at NC State. My roommate, Josie, and I had made a ritual of hanging out in our room in Watauga Hall on Thursday nights. We would order pizza, watch TV, and talk a lot. This was before it was normal to have...
It’s been a crazy summer of hot days and career changes for me, but Star Wars: The Bad Batch has been a consistent part of each weekend. Since my article kicking off the season, I’ve looked forward to this time to reflect on the series so far. Now that...
It was 28 years ago, while I was in college, that I made the first mental connections to something I had felt prominently since my early teens. It would be another year before I had a name for it: bisexual. After another decade, I also better understood and accepted...
After Michele Morrow visited Retro Replay, I had a wonderful chat with her about how our lives are impacted by gaming and whether esports is providing gamers with an equal playing field. She also shared her own story about how gaming helped her through a rough time....