Video Game Review: ‘Night in the Woods’

Mae is 20 years old. She just quit college and came back home in late autumn. She has depression. She’s also cat person, but that isn’t important. Mae is the star of “Night in the Woods,” an adventure game released Feb. 21. In “Night in the Woods,” players run around Possum Springs, a small northeastern […]

Showcase offers student screenwriters access to industry professionals

Monday’s Screenwriters Showcase will feature student scripts from the MFA screenwriting program, but there’s more to the competition than winning, organizers said. Graduating students’ goal is to get their scripts read by industry professionals who have the power to give them their start in entertainment. The annual showcase is judged by almost 300 entertainment industry […]

Video Game Review: ‘Dark Souls III’

Many games try to scare, but few are actually tense since there’s no genuine threat in a virtual world. However, “Dark Souls III” is truly nerve-wracking. The “Souls” series solves this problem and makes the stakes of the game real with punishing combat difficulty and the recoverable loss of all the player’s currency upon their […]

Let’s Animate: Bruin Animated revises goals for 3-D film to focus on modeling scenes

Daily Bruin A&E is following the Bruin Animated Filmmakers, a new club on campus, as they create a short animated film. In this week’s installment: the club’s revised targets and modeling the main character, Zombie Mike, and his environment. The recently formed Bruin Animated Filmmakers club has learned a daunting though not discouraging lesson: making […]

Video Game Review: ‘Superhot’

Watch a bullet fly by, and step out of the way. “Superhot,” released Feb. 25, is a first-person shooter game in which time moves when the player does. Actually, time moves incredibly slowly even while standing still, like bullet time in “The Matrix.” Move a little and time jumps forward, bullets fly by and shattered […]

Video Game Review: ‘Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak’

Sand clogs up everything; it’s gritty and coarse. “Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak” might just be the sandiest game ever. It’s a distant prequel to the decade-old “Homeworld” and “Homeworld 2,” and transplants the series from space to the vast expanse of the desert. Players control a huge land-carrier and an attendant army of dune buggies, […]

Video game review: ‘Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’

When I was 10, my parents took my copy of PlayStation’s “Metal Gear Solid” away because it was “too violent.” It’s true, and it’s also too melodramatic. Released Sept. 1, “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” is the final game in a 25-year series by auteur writer and director Hideo Kojima, as publisher Konami […]