Steven Nguyen Scaife
@midfalutin.bsky.social
Freelance critic for games, TV, & movies with bylines at Slant Magazine, Edge, Polygon, IGN, Boston Globe, Fanbyte, Buzzfeed News, etc. Writing FAITH: Design Works. Midwest library person. He/him. https://muckrack.com/steven-scaife stvnscaife at gmail
there is considerably less integrity in AI than the absolute crummiest 2010s DTV movie that can only afford Cage for 40-60% of the runtime
Eric Vilas-Boas@ericvb.bsky.social · 3h agoAnd Nic Cage really is NOT into AI “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company. I am not an AI-friendly actor,” he said. “I didn’t sign the waiver. I’ll probably never work with that studio again.” www.vulture.com/article/nico...
my favorite part of Exorcist: The Beginning is that there was clearly a studio note saying something to the effect of, "Needs more STAIRS"
Sebulba declined to comment through a representative when asked where he was on January 6
Steven remains among the best doing it. check out his review of Hellraiser: Revival
Steven Nguyen Scaife@midfalutin.bsky.social · 2d ago
🌊🌴Isles of Sea and Sky🌴🐢 is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch!!! Wow!! A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... If you haven’t played yet, now is the time!
i don't love that my last three assignments have been Resident Evil: Lovecraft, Resident Evil: Twin Peaks, and Resident Evil: Hellraiser
"The Cenobites of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser series weren’t always mutilated torture mavens. As humans, they sought out terrible new experiences in their dissatisfaction with earthly pleasures. Essentially, they were bored. Playing Hellraiser: Revival, it’s easy to envision how they must have felt."
Slant@slantmagazine.com · 2d agoCLIVE BARKER’S HELLRAISER: REVIVAL entices with flashes of distinct personality only to reveal the overfamiliar rhythms of survival horror and the tyranny of video game crafting systems. Read @midfalutin.bsky.social's review.
would it have killed Netflix to also license the 1955 East of Eden for a few months or something
i should probably start doing a media diary again huh
Langston in Control is the only person I will listen to about whether a computer has feelings
ah yes the widespread brand recognition of Skydance
first watches of September: -Coyote vs. Acme -The Furious -I Am Frankelda -Primetime -Resident Evil (2026) -Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
nobody talks about just how much of Faust (1926) is spent on Faust and Mephisto doing Pepe Le Pew antics
i am largely positive on Control Resonant so far, but you better believe i quit out of a sequence immediately once i saw it was just a combat challenge
ah but will it replicate the actual scariest part of working in a library, when patrons just shove books in some random spot and they get lost forever???
Xalavier Nelson Jr.@writnelson.bsky.social · 2w agoWE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...
as always, the only reasonable "best of" lists are made by either a single person or by 2-3 people in close enough proximity to get physical if need be
I'm hearing that Minus Zero's R rating is due to Godzilla's graphic drug use
you can immediately tell an X-Files episode is going to be A Problem when the music score gets... let's say "culturally adventurous"
every argument for a broader, more subjective range of review scores is way more persuasive as an argument against review scores in general you can dream bigger, folks!
new Resident Evil is good, but why do I keep seeing people say it adapts "the feeling of playing the games"? the protagonist here being kind of a bumbling moron is what makes the film distinct!
but are the Threshold Kids back in Control Resonant
anyone doing a "finally a good Resident Evil movie" article should hire me to write something instead tbh
the extensive indie game coverage I was able to do for Fanbyte remains some of the most important work I've done
Imran Khan@imrankhan.bsky.social · 4w agoOh, hey, it's the Fanbyte apocalypse anniversary. I've said this before and I'll say it again: Fanbyte really was a singular event. It is /exceedingly/ unlikely we'll ever get that level of resources combined with leadership that was willing to trust the incredibly talented people they hired.
getting paid for my Lost in Cult project only to immediately spend that money on this, RIP
Lost In Cult@lostincult.co.uk · 4w agoOver 40 years of cutting edge cinema. Introducing our (Post)[Culture] premiere, Archive: Shinya Tsukamoto 🎞️ 400 pages. Limited extras. Signed by Tsukamoto himself. Only 500 signed copies available! 🔗🔻
I'm in here with a review of The Sinking City 2, which improves the combat yet scales back the puzzles that are way more interesting
Edge@edgemagazine.bsky.social · last mo.Layoffs, spiralling budgets, increasing hardware costs: the game industry is broken. Can we fix it? In the new issue of Edge, out today, industry leaders including Tim Sweeney and Shawn Layden help us to identify what’s gone wrong, and we consider proposals for a better future.
alas, my stand-off with the price of those first two Famicom Detective Club games continues
went into Hope thinking I'd love it and have walked out bewildered
