Travis Hymas
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Travis began a life obsessed with technology with his cousin's classic Game Boy and a copy of Tetris. He was horrible at it, but has yet to forget that experience. These days, Travis looks to explore the intersection of culture and technology that has come to define our world. When not thinking way too hard about this stuff, he can be found putting a few games of Magic The Gathering and being volunteered to be someone's tech support.

Sundered Begins Closed Beta With A Mysterious Trailer

The Kickstarter-backed Sundered, a game we previewed at PAX East this year, is about to start the closed beta process for its 4,600 backers. To celebrate, the team at Thunder Lotus Games has released a compelling new trailer for the game: Like the…

Why Do Comic Book Publishers Make (Seemingly) Bad Choices?

Last week saw the release of Marvel’s Secret Empire #1, properly kicking off a line-wide crossover that serves as the culmination of a year long arc over in the Captain America books Marvel is currently publishing. In this arc, original…

TV Review: Doctor Who 10×03 “Thin Ice”

I had a total of two thoughts going through my head during this week’s episode of Doctor Who. The first was “Now this is one hell of a good episode,” and the second was “this is definitely trying to say…

Video Game Review: Mr. Shifty

This is what happens when you can go anywhere and decide to go nowhere. Mr. Shifty is an oddity for me, so much as that I wanted to like it a lot more than I ended up doing. The setup…

TV Review: Class 01×02 “The Coach With The Dragon Tattoo”

Following a pretty solid start, Class now faces the challenge of being a monster of the week series that stays interesting. While this second episode doesn’t hit the same high as the pilot, it does seem that the series has…

Earthfall is Now Available in Steam Early Access

We previewed it at PAX just a few weeks ago, and now Earthfall has arrived in Steam Early Access for the world to try. Coming from developer Holospark, Earthfall is a co-operative first person shooter set on an Earth invaded…

TV Review: Doctor Who 10×02 “Smile”

This week’s episode of Doctor Who was an improvement over last week’s episode, and last week’s episode wasn’t even remotely bad. While “Smile” almost indicates a very ominous tone via the title (see: shows like Jessica Jones), this week’s episode…