ABOUT Alana Mancuso
Alana is the daughter of an Irish Storyteller and a father who raised her on Douglas Adams. Her addiction to sci-fi and fantasy was inevitable. In 2012 her fanatic love of story led her to a Bachelors in Writing and a TV/Film Production concentration from Kalamazoo College, and she’s not been able to stop writing since. She currently works as a freelance content writer and editor.
The experience of playing Dungeons & Dragons is a unique one, in no small part due to the sheer volume of fictional history, culture, and lore its players can access. While the game is designed to let each group of players invent their own story, some official settings still fill gamers with awe and inspiration: Baldur’s Gate,…
If you’re involved with video editing, digital art, coding, or just love PC gaming, you’ve probably experienced first hand how helpful having multiple screens can be. A bigger display means better multi-tasking, more desktop to work with, and easier access to multiple windows. You’ll also know how important it is for a screen’s quality to…
EVE Online is a massively-multiplayer online game whose game play is centered on control of regions and resources in the star systems of New Eden. Players create large corporations, alliances, and coalitions to control star systems, mine and sell resources, build fleets of ships, develop new technology and weapons, and dominate the political, economic, and…
If you’ve been on the internet at all in the last week, you’ve probably heard about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Previously this month TwitchTV, an online streaming platform used primarily for Let’s Plays and live game footage, began hosting their noble experiment, Twitch Plays Pokemon Red and Blue. Having been likened to “the proverbial infinite Mankeys…
This week, comic book fans who have been waiting for a solo superheroine movie received a little spark of hope in their hearts when Kevin Feige, Marvel Studio’s President of Production, admitted to Total Film that “development work” was being done for a solo Black Widow film. Fans who have been burnt too many times…
Have you ever seen an absolutely phenomenal piece of fanart for your favorite show or game and immediately needed to share it with everyone you know? Of course you have– this is the internet. Maybe you’ve even bought a sketch of your favorite comic character from the Artist Alley at a con, or commissioned an artist…
There are two typical classifications of video games: those played on your computer and those played on your console. The former belong, logically enough, on your Mac or PC and are therefore usually played in an office, den, or at computer desk pushed up against the wall. The latter gets the honor and the perks…
Warning, contains spoilers for previous episodes in seasons one and two. Elementary Recap: “Corpse de Ballet” It’s an average morning at the brownstone, which means Sherlock has an entirely consensual, entirely independent ladyfriend over and has politely informed Joan of this fact via post-it, which Joan considers more “on point” than a sock on the…
Warning, this article contains spoilers for previous Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes. Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Recap – ‘T.R.A.C.K.S.’ Big bombs dropped this week, guys, and I’m not just talking about the Night Night Gun serum Centipede seems to have gotten its hands on. After last episode, “Seeds,” Team Coulson has found a new lead to the…
Energy gauges are useful. They tell you when your phone is close to calling it quits, when you need to immediately save in order to avoid losing progress on your laptop, and how far your car can get you before you need to fuel it up. But the truth is, we humans get tired too–…
Warning, contains spoilers for previous episodes in seasons one and two. ‘Elementary’ Recap – Dead Clade Walking Sherlock’s quirky hobby of the week is trepanning (“drilling holes into peoples’ skulls” for those who didn’t read His Dark Materials voraciously as a child), but he’s constantly and concernedly interrupted by texts from his new mentee, Randy, who’s…
When I was a kid, my family moved halfway across the country. My parents had a weird way of dealing with the hardships and confusion that comes with transplanting yourself in a strange new place—they joined a Wine of the Month club. I didn’t get it. Once a month, a box with two bottles of…
Food. It’s great, right? There’s really nothing better, unless you count sleep or maybe how it feels to beat a new video game for the first time or discover a new favorite TV show. Logically, then, food when combined with favorite video games or TV shows will be even more awesome. Here are ten recipes…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the series as a whole, potential spoilers for other Marvel MCU films (including Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier), and a link to TV Tropes. When the show is purposefully built to be a TV tie-in to Marvel’s successful new Cinematic Universe, it would hardly be unexpected that Agents…
Ah, Cards Against Humanity– the card game perfect for entertainment at parties and showing off what a depraved, insensitive cretin you truly are. Described as “Apples to Apples for horrible people” and marketed as “as despicable and awkward as you and your friends,” (not to mention chock full of pop and geek culture references,) it’s…
