Another week, another episode of For The Players: The PopCulturists PlayStation Podcast and another person complaining about gaming culture and how horrid it is…. Wait…. this person is IN the games industry? What? An article by Jason Schreier for Kotaku has him discussing how game developers want to be more candid with gamers however they […]

Tokyo Game Show 2018 has come and gone, and with PlayStation being a Japanese company you know they are going to have a conference. As Ryan looked around the internet all he could find was outlandish predictions and expectations for the TGS conference. Now post conference, almost all of them were wrong. Completely wrong! So […]

The PopC Community is divided! Half of us are playing Destiny 2 and the others are on Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds. Both games are fantastic! Ryan and Josh will tell you why you need to play both. Can you guess who has been playing what? Also the news of the week, such as: Bruce Straley leaves […]

Everybody knows that when Destiny launched in 2014 it was a little lackluster. It was missing almost all the “ambitious story” that we were promised. But with the release of Destiny 2 this month, Has Activision and Bungie launched the game the original should have been? In short, yes! In long, jump on in to […]

Imagine it! A Grand Theft Auto movie. Wouldn’t it be magical?   Ryan and Josh thought exactly that. This week they guys take a look at a much overused topic of conversation but throw their own spin on it. Who will get cast? Who would direct? What OTHER games could make their way onto the […]

Like sands through the hourglass, here comes another month for movies and video games. As September begins we start making our way into the busiest period for games and blockbuster movies. But are you unsure what to check out this month? Well Ryan and Josh have you covered with all the releases that matter for […]

With the release of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle around the corner and the announcement that Final Fantasy and Assassins Creed will be creating content together, it got Ryan and Josh thinking. What cross-overs do we truly want to see? Will it be games of a similar vein coming together or two completely separate genres? […]

Thanks to Playstation Australia, The PopCulturists have been lucky enough to get early access to Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and review it for you, The PopC Community. Set after the events of Uncharted 4, Chloe is on the hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh and has enlisted the help of Nadine. The Lost legacy see […]

Micro-transactions are garbage to begin with, but when they are put into a full priced AAA single-player game… Nope! With the announcement that Warner Bros. and Monolith have shoe-horned xp boosts, loot boxes, and orc-for-cash Ryan and Josh were simply not pleased. Why the hell should they be here? It just seems so dirty! And […]

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg made this statement at a recent Investors Call: “Destiny is so engaging that the follow-on content is almost as important if not as important as the main game”. This is an interesting statement to make. It seemed to hit Josh the wrong way this week and he decided to bring […]