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MADDY MYERS
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Review: Soul Calibur V
Soulless
It's time to make some new friends.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| February 07, 2012
Review: Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
Animated alchemical battles
The Fullmetal Alchemist series has expanded impressively, from the 2001 graphic novel, to the 2003 anime series and film to the 2009 reboot of the anime, and now Kazuya Murata's film, which picks up from the middle of the second anime reboot.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| January 17, 2012
Warming up with the Boston theater scene's winter offerings
Cold remedies
Although the whirlwind of Scrooges and Rockettes will soon be exiting stage left, the storm of winter theater continues unabated.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| December 29, 2011
Sexiest video game studs of 2011
If only they were real
Here's our annual list of the hot men video games have offered up this past year.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| December 22, 2011
Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The siren call
My introduction to The Elder Scrolls series involved watching a friend use the same spell over and over in a forest full of endlessly re-spawning rats, in an effort to level up his magical abilities.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| December 01, 2011
Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
What did you expect?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 felt formulaic — but, oh, what a wonderful formula it was. Modern Warfare 3 follows an identical trajectory.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| November 29, 2011
The Divine Sister's comic convent at SpeakEasy Stage
Team spirit
Larry Coen directs SpeakEasy Stage's Boston premiere of Charles Busch's The Divine Sister, this time without Busch's gender-bending talents in the starring role of Mother Superior.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| November 02, 2011
SpeakEasy's heart-wrenching Next Fall
Revelations
It's a story you've heard before: a young gay man, raised by Bible-thumping Southern parents who would disown him if he were to come out, moves to New York City.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| October 05, 2011
Review: Gears of War 3
The COG's sordid past comes to light
Gears of War 3 should feel familiar. Except the female characters have guns now.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| October 05, 2011
Review: Resistance 3
Murderer with a heart of gold
Fall is shooter season, and Resistance 3 is the first of many, though it will likely not emerge as the frontrunner.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| September 13, 2011
New Rep's new Rent stays mostly true, with one twist and some noise
Highs and lows
Every director who helms Rent must struggle in the shadow of the original production.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| September 14, 2011
Company One takes on Jason Grote's whirling 1001
American Nights
Grote uses the same framing device as the original One Thousand and One Nights , which begins with Shahriyar (Nael Nacer) discovering his wife's infidelity and deciding that the only way to prevent his future wives from cheating is to marry virgins, deflower them, and execute them the next morning.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| July 26, 2011
Review: Nintendo 3DS
Is Ocarina of Time enough to make the Nintendo 3DS worth it?
Nintendo's newest handheld console, the 3DS, costs $250 — the same amount the Wii cost at first, making the 3DS the most expensive handheld to date.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| July 19, 2011
Review: Brink
Brink trips over itself
There's an old joke about shooters: "No one plays the campaign." Everybody just skips ahead to the multiplayer. So why should developers even include that pesky story mode?
By:
MADDY MYERS
| June 09, 2011
Review: Mortal Kombat 9
Gross miskonduct
Mortal Kombat 9 represents everything that's awful about video games. It's trashy, it's corny, it's gory, it's sexist, it's racist — and it's deceptively addictive.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| May 10, 2011
Review: HBO's Game of Thrones
It's a long story
In spite of the obstacles to making Martin's story succeed as a TV show, someone at HBO must be a fan, because Game of Thrones — named after the first book in his series — makes its live-action television debut this Sunday, April 17.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| April 14, 2011
Review: Dragon Age 2
Building character
Dragon Age 2 appears, at first, to have little going for it. The combat system stoops to Kingdom Hearts levels of easy. You press the basic attack button as fast as you can while occasionally switching to other buttons for more-powerful abilities that recharge.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| March 31, 2011
At PAX, everyone gets along
Game faces
PAX East came to the Boston Convention Center this past weekend, bringing 69,500 gamers together for three days of video and computer-game demos, nerdcore concerts, panel discussions about the industry and gamer culture at large, and chances to meet the convention's hosts, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the author/artist duo of the popular gaming webcomic Penny Arcade.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| March 16, 2011
From Cleopatra to Picasso to Alan Turing: Spring theater in Boston
Familiar faces
Famous historical figures come to life on the Boston theater scene this spring.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| March 14, 2011
Gaming, rape culture, and how I stopped reading Penny Arcade
When Dickwolves attack
One September evening in 2005, I sat in a packed MIT lecture hall and watched as Mike Krahulik drew the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory on a blackboard.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| March 07, 2011
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BLOG POSTS BY MADDY MYERS
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On Gears of War 3’s women warriors
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge: On glitches, difficulty settings, and co-op fights
Catwoman's Arkham City debut
re: Leonard Nimoy: An Alien from Boston
Improv Boston’s Geek Week 2011: Ninja Sex Party, Overthinking It, Paper Dolls, and more!
PlayStation Network hack knocks service out "indefinitely"
Duke Nukem Forever: Nostalgia for a simpler, manlier time
Dragon Age 2: When you're a Champion, everybody needs you
PAX East, Day 3: Telltale Games, Indie start-ups, and - unfortunately - Dickwolves
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