Controlled Burnes: Curating a PS2 Classic

On this week’s episode, Andrew keeps the freewheelin’ video game console discussions coming with a draft of two different versions of a potential PS2 classic, one designed to hit the widest mainstream appeal and another catered to his own specific favorite games on the console. So the second list is his de-facto favorite PS2 games…

Controlled Burnes: The Greatness of Bloodborne

Controlled Burnes host SlowBurne kicks off a new appreciation series dissecting individual pieces of entertainment that stand out as exemplary with an episode focused entirely on one of the greatest video games ever made: From Software’s Bloodborne. SlowBurne discusses his history with the game from overwhelmed noob to hardened vet and puts together four lists…

Super Mario Kart

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…