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[COLUMN] Darren’s Cannes Diary, Day Five - A Rockier Day | by Darren Mooney

Film festivals are fascinating. On the one hand, you have days like yesterday, when Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness, Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, and Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer provided three of the best films ...

Little Kitty, Big City Review | Bytesized

A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Will Cruz, checking out Little Kitty, Big City!

Six Month Celebration Event on May 30th + Feedback Check-in

Hey folks!

You're all invited to our six-month celebration event for Second Wind on May 30th LIVE on YouTube.

New announcements, teasers for upcoming things, raffling off some game consoles, giving away a ton of game codes, releasing a new set of merch and more!

We'll be streaming for 9 hours straight, playing a variety of ga...

[COLUMN] Darren’s Cannes Diary, Day Four - The Best Picture Starting Pistol | by Darren Mooney

So, this was a pretty good day at Cannes, all things considered.

Let’s talk about Cannes as the starting pistol on the Best Picture race. This makes a certain amount of sense. The festival occurs a few months after the Oscars, and it tends to be...

[AD-FREE] Indie Developers Are Absolutely Crushing It Right Now | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, Marty, Nick, and Frost discuss the recent wave of excellent indie games we've been getting this year.

Dread Delusion Review | Bytesized

A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Jesse Galena, checking out Dread Delusion!

[COLUMN] Darren’s Cannes Diary, Day Three - The Premiere of Coppola’s Megalopolis | by Darren Mooney

With the third day of Cannes, things are really heating up. It’s a pretty big day for the festival, featuring press screenings and premieres of fairly significant features.

Of course, the biggest event of the day – and one of the biggest event...

Patreon + Paypal Issues Resolved

Hey folks,

Apologies for the deluge of updates here.

Patreon has notified that the payment issues with Paypal have been resolved. Patreon Status - Paypal payments declines We lost around 1000 paying subscribers due to this,...

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Review | Bytesized

A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Marty Sliva, this time reviewing Simogo's Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.

Patreon and Paypal Payment Issue Update

Hey folks,

We're in contact with Patreon now on the Paypal payment issues and their tech team is investigating, with hopes that it's resolved before the weekend.

In the meantime you can keep up to date with status updates here: Patr...

Helldivers 2 and Consumer Pushback Done Right | Unpacked

A new episode of Unpacked is now available!

[COLUMN] Darren’s Cannes Diary, Day Two - Furiosa Round One | by Darren Mooney

The first full day of the festival is still a warm-up phase. Talent and press are still arriving and getting settled, and the other smaller sections of the program - Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight - are just warming up. The big ticket items ...

Stellar Blade | Fully Ramblomatic

This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!

Paypal Payment Issues

Hey folks!

We're aware that a lot of people have had their Patreon memberships cancelled because of failed Patreon payments through Paypal.

We've contacted Patreon to sort this out and will keep you posted on updates as we have them. Apologies for the inconvenience and we're hoping to get this sorted out as fast as possible to not ...

[COLUMN] Darren’s Cannes Diary, Day One - ‘Yes We Cannes’ | by Darren Mooney

Hello! So, this year I’m going to the Cannes International Film Festival. It’s my first time, and I’m very excited. It’s a real “film critic bucket list” thing.

We thought it might be worth running a diary on the Patreon covering the f...

[AD-FREE] Shhh... Let's Talk About Video Game Secrets | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Frost, and Marty discuss the past, present, and future of secrets in video games.

Crow Country Review | Bytesized

A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Marty Sliva, this time reviewing Crow Country.

Why Does This Keep Happening to the Gaming Community? | Cold Take

This week's episode of Cold Take is now available!

[COLUMN] In this New Season, Russell T. Davies Reconstructs Doctor Who For the American Gaze | by Darren Mooney

Doctor Who has always had a complicated relationship to the United States.

The show is uniquely British in its aesthetics and sensibilities, to the point that the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) travels around time and space inside a big blue p...

[COLUMN] The Original Planet of the Apes Sequels Were the Last Gasp of a Particular Kind of Franchising | by Darren Mooney

The classic Planet of the Apes franchise, running across five films from the original film in 1968 through to Battle for the Planet of the Apes in 1973, is a fascinating snapshot of how film franchises used to operate.

...

INDIKA Review | Bytesized

Jess Hoops reviewed INDIKA for Bytesized this week!

[AD-FREE] An Introduction to the Team | Dev Heads Podcast

Welcome to Dev Heads! A brand-new podcast from Second Wind hosted by JM8, Tina Sanchez and Michael "Mikee" Tsarouhas focused on the games industry, completely hosted by game development professionals!

[PREMIERE] An Introduction to the Team | Dev Heads Podcast

Join us at Noon CT today for the premiere of our newest podcast, Dev Heads!

Why Balancing Multiplayer Games Is A NIGHTMARE (ft. Riot Mortdog) | Design Delve

This week's episode of Design Delve is now available!

[COLUMN] In Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, History is a Circle | by Darren Mooney

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a story of decline. As if to signal this idea, the film opens with a funeral pyre, a memorial to the great ape Caesar (Andy Serkis), the chimpanzee protagonist of the trilogy that began with Rise of...