My name is Chris. I write things.
Want to know how to drink like James Bond? What about the debt The Mandalorian owes to an obscure cartoon, how to make your own Super Mario Bros. levels, or the best shower scenes in video game history?Over the past decade or so, I've written about all of those and much, much more. My work has appeared in places like Playboy, ESPN, Maxim, VICE, GameSpot, Mashable, MAD Magazine, Digital Trends, and others.My specialties include video game development and design, popular television shows and movies, and animation and comic book history. In other words? If it's geeky, I probably write about it.You can reach me at [email protected], and I've put some of my favorite clips below. Check 'em out.
Interviews and Reported Features
Why You Can't Drink the Original James Bond Martini (Maxim)How Gemini Man's Visual Effects Kept Will Smith Out of the Uncanny Valley (Digital Trends)Bushido Baseball: Manga's Hardcore Take on America's Favorite Pastime (Paste)Rez, Please: The Role of MMOs in Esports (ESPN)Introducing Boba Fett: The Truth Behind the Bounty Hunter's Animated Debut (The Star Wars Insider)Real Game Designers Reveal How to Make the Best Super Mario Maker Levels (Mashable)Marvel's Avengers: What It's Really Like Making a Superhero Video Game (Looper)Far Cry Primal: How Audio Engineer Mohamed Rabia Crafts the Sounds of the Stone Age (Sound and Picture Magazine)Ashley Eckstein Dishes on the Clone Wars and Life as Ahsoka Tano (Looper)What the Most Popular Games in the World Can Learn From a Genre Called 'MUD' (Playboy)Sci-Fi Legend Katee Sackhoff Spills On Her YouTube Channel, The Mandalorian, And More (Looper)
Opinion, Explainers, and Humor
Video Game Storytelling: Developers Need to Let Players in on the Joke (Sound and Picture)How Princess Leia Became a General: From a New Hope to The Last Jedi (GameSpot)17 Uncanny Similarities Between Game of Thrones and Star Wars (GameSpot)We Used Video Games to Predict the Next President of the United States (VICE)Who Will Win Game of Thrones (According to WWE 2K19)? (Everygeek)7 Video Games That Will Totally Make You Better at Sex (Maybe) (Playboy)The Crucial, Sordid History of Video Game Showers (Playboy)The 27 Biggest Milestones in Black Superhero History (GameSpot)No Spider-Man? No Problem. Ms. Marvel Is Here to Save the MCU (Digital Trends)