SlowBurne calls an audible on this week’s episode of the podcast to discuss one of his greatest gaming loves: PlayStation trophies. SlowBurne breaks down his path from a kid who barely finished anything to a video game completionist and tells stories about his recent years as a trophy hunter including a ranking of his current…
SlowBurne flies solo again this week and kicks off Controlled Burnes’ 25 Greatest Games series where SlowBurne and guests will be discussing their picks for the top 25 video games of all time. While SlowBurne generally tries to avoid major spoilers for the games discussed, some are unavoidable. For those interested in skipping ahead, timestamps…
Welcome to the Controlled Burn podcast, a new podcast from SlowBurne from Wildfire Gaming in tandem with TheSoundtrackOnline.com. Your host is Andrew Burnes AKA SlowBurne, one of the co-founders of Wildfire Gaming and the editor of TheSoundtrackOnline. This introductory episode features an update on Wildfire Gaming and its hosts SlowBurne and TreeTrunkSean as well as…
In the most shocking episode of what is becoming an excellent season of Survivor, one of my top picks to win the game, Michaela Bradshaw was blindsided by Jay Starrett in a move that has many across the nation weeping and spewing on Twitter. Whether you agree with the decision, there is no doubt that…
C+ Crash is a tale of two albums. At its best, it is Dave Matthews Band and its most heartfelt (and commercially successful) with the smash hit “Crash into Me,” which, according to Spotify monthly listeners anyway, remains far and away the band’s biggest record to date. The duology of “#41” and “Say Goodbye,” complete…
B- Earlier this month, I traveled with my wife’s family up to Colorado to see a concert at the legendary Red Rocks amphitheater. They were there for Andy Frasco and the U.N., an amusing enough band that knows how to put on a highly entertaining live performance, even if their songwriting is nothing to write…
9.75 Taking major inspiration from the classic JRPGs of old, German developer Mattias Linda has crafted a modern classic of his own that manages to take the best pieces of some of the greatest games of all time and combines them with some fresh ideas that make Chained Echoes an experience for the ages. First…
6.75 Super Mario Kart stands as a fascinating history lesson as the launching point for an entire subgenre of video games, and perhaps Mario’s single most successful series in the modern era of games. However, as a standalone game, particularly in 2024, it is little more than a foundation and proof of concept of the…
S By the time Guns N’ Roses arrived at the final tracklist for their landmark debut LP Appetite for Destruction, it already sounded like a best of compilation. The group had already recorded a number of tracks that would later appear across the Use Your Illusion albums, but narrowed its focus to the best of…
B- It may be hard to imagine now, but in 1956, Elvis Presley’s debut album was the most critical Rock n’ Roll release in history. It was the first rock record to sell 1 million copies and was a foundational piece of the launch of music’s most lauded cover artist to superstardom. The album was…
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