May 2026 media
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Titanium Court: I admit I found the prerelease hype-building for Titanium Court to be a little insufferable; it was a lot of winking and nodding from the IGF crowd who wouldn’t even mention which game they were praising. Still, enough people whose opinions I value were into it for me to give it a whirl. And hey, it’s pretty neat! The gameplay is a clever hybrid of match-3 and tower defense, and the story wraps self-aware humor and ironic pageantry around a core of earnestness, like Undertale by way of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It may be the sort of game that’s more interesting than fun if match-3 and tower defense aren’t in your genre wheelhouse, but it definitely is interesting.
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie: I don’t think I was hit by the full force of this movie—I hadn’t watched anything from these guys aside from the ubiquitous (in my circles) “update day” sketch, and I don’t have the Torontonian context to appreciate the local humor. Even so, I thought this was fantastic. It knows exactly how hard to lean on the fourth wall, how much to press on the awkward candid interactions, how far to take the Back to the Future parody without wearing out its welcome. For as goofy as it is on the surface, there’s a lot of careful craftsmanship here. It made me want to go back and check out the show (or perhaps shows).