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E3 2017 Preview: Bloody Zombies

VR has become a major buzzword around the videogame industry these days. For the past few E3 conferences, there have been whole sections of the floor devoted to people strapping on headsets and playing first person titles where you rock climb or pilot a spaceship. Other times you're running in a foot race like the intriguing title Sprint Vector...

Videogame Roundtable E3 2017 Recap

Videogame Roundtable Episode 301: E3 2017 Recap Look, we're back, and as promised, the new podcast is now up and recorded on the final day of E3 in Devolver Digital's off-site space. Jonah and T.J. hang out near the Fable Fortune booth as they discuss the games they scoped out on the show floor. If T.J. seems a lot more...

A Splendid Time Guaranteed For All – Peter Noone at Cary Hall

While Beatlemania is spreading across the planet again at the dawn of the summer of 2017 - thanks to the return of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, the fellow who sold more records than the Fab Four in America at one point in time utilized his artistic alchemy to transform a bunch of aging seniors into teenyboppers again....

Guitar Gear Review: Seymour Duncan JB Model Comparison

Seymour’s JB model humbucker. It’s been called the archetype hot-rodded humbucker. One of the best-selling aftermarket pickups in history. Let’s run down what we covered: The JB Model (mid 1970s-early 1980s) JBJ era (1980s-1990s) Current production JB (1990-current) Antiquity JB (2011) Concept JB (2011) Custom Shop JB (as ordered) So. Why are there so many versions of it available over the years? To give the devil his/her due,...

Guitar Tech Tips: Bumps In The Road: Fixing A Fingerboard

In a previous article “Grading On A Curve: A Look At Fingerboard Radius“, we looked at a bum fingerboard. Frets slots without glue, allowing frets to rise up. Pretty big hump at about the 3rd to 5th fret. Another hump at around 14th fret. Very inconsistent grading on the compound radius. Not even a dead-on radius to match along...

Sam Adams Summer Ale and Boston Calling are the Perfect Pairing

Last weekend Boston’s premier music even Boston Calling made it’s the first trip through town. This annual Memorial Day mashup of music, comedy, food and beer has functions and events to entertain all. The event’s sponsors are as diverse as the people that attend the show. However, one sponsor that stepped up this year and every year is Boston...

Review: Black and Decker’s new 13 Amp Circular Saw with Laser

Anyone that has embarked on any home improvement project knows the importance of having a great circular saw. Why do I say great, not good? The circular saw is going to be used for your beginning components to the finish of your product. If you do not start your project with truly clean and accurate cuts things can get...

Review: Wonder Woman – More Powerful than TV Viewers Were Given a Chance to See

With a mere $149,000,000 budget – loose change these days - Warner Brothers has finally released a MARVELous motion picture from the DC comic books stable of stars.  And they did it by making this film modelled after a Disney Captain America / Iron Man / Ant Man release. We’ll get to the film after we go over some...

Boston Calling Brings The Greatest Show on Earth to Allston

This past Memorial Day weekend, all roads lead to Boston as the sights and sounds of the east’s greatest music festival drew nearly 130,000 people over the course of the three day event. Now on their fourth year and seventh festival, Boston Calling made some very flashy upgrades to ring in the new era of the festival, which now...

Videogame Roundtable Episode 300: Reunion Extravaganza

The landmark 300th episode was recorded two weeks ago, but the audio was absolutely terrible, with over a half-an-hour having to be excised. It's a pity, because it featured both Videogame Roundtable originals Paul Nowak and Jordan Lund guest-hosting for a massive (for this podcast) five-man crew. To make up for it, Jonah and T.J. recorded a half-hour discussion of...

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No, Seriously, Sexism in Video Games

In my last post, I made a point of ridiculing the notion that a lack of female protagonists means that developers are sexists. Essentially,...

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