Ninja goes back to his YouTube Roots

World-renowned video gamer and streamer, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has started broadcasting his gameplay on Youtube. This afternoon in a tweet, the streamer who is most notably known for playing Fortnite previewed a possible announcement before posting a YouTube video. The…

Cinema’s Influence on Video Games

With the release of a real life Sonic the Hedgehog movie, I was presented with the task of coming up with the most cinematic video games for a Film and Gaming section cross post. When thinking about this topic, however,…

[Interview] Bo Burnham on directing ‘Eighth Grade’ and growing up with YouTube, cringe-worthy childhood memories, and premature adulthood

There are certain films that remind us of our childhoods. Those breezy, carefree days where we would just play the day away and not have to worry about the myriad of things that now plague our adult lives. Well, that…

Grief and the Guiding Light: How Playground navigates loss

Grief is uncontainable. It thrives in spirals free of end-of-the-night Tupperware container promises; it ebbs and flows in an existence that refuses compartmentalization; it is the pitchest of blacks, and that’s how it likes it. But grief is navigable. Though it can’t…

TYF’s The Game Awards Picks 2016

It’s hard to believe we’re already seeing the third year of this revitalization of an annual The Game Awards, but here we are. It’s easy to say that there are a number of quality blockbuster game titles that have proven…

TV Review: Haters Back Off!

I honestly could never understand the whole “Annoying character = comedy” routine. But it appears to be a ripe place on YouTube for television creators to exploit, as we saw a few years ago with concoctions like the Annoying Orange…

Eddsworld: The End of a Legacy

All good things must come to an end, or in this case, must come to an endd. On March 9, part one of the series finale for the comedy sketch YouTube program “Eddsworld” was uploaded. With part two set to release…