Alex Orona

1 day ago | culturecombine.com | Alex Orona

Updated: a few seconds agoNightmare Weekend Chicago, presented by GalaxyCon, is a small scale celebration of all things horror for us here in the Midwest. A bit smaller than the C2E2’s and Fan Expos of the world, it had no shortage of star power, events and sights to see throughout its aisles. Let’s dig into what made Nightmare Weekend at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center a must see con for horror fans. Starting off with the big ticket items: celebrities.

1 month ago | culturecombine.com | Alex Orona

Alex Orona17 minutes ago1 min readC2E2 has been poppin' off this week at the McCormick Place in Chicago and one of the big highlights was the announcement of the new DC Elseworlds limited series Immortal Legend Batman; a six issue series co-written by Mat Groom of Radiant Black and art by Erica D’Urso of Captain Marvel. The series will be taking inspiration from Japanese tokusatsu superhero stories and classic westerns mixed with its own Batman spin.

1 month ago | culturecombine.com | Alex Orona

Wednesday April 2nd the world was finally given its first look at the Nintendo Switch 2 and with it came a litany of reveals, but even more questions. We were finally able to confirm a lot of the patent leaks and design docks, but the bigger political implications still loom as a dark cloud over what is to be the next big console release. The Switch 2 at its core is a more powerful Switch.

2 months ago | startmenu.co.uk | Alex Orona

Three times a year, we are blessed with Steam’s Next Fest, a festival of demos for games that are coming out this year. It’s always a treasure trove of indies and unheard of gems if you are willing to go digging. But with a load of big releases coming out the last few weeks, we’ve decided to help out once again and done some of the digging for you. Here is what we loved from Steam Next Fest.

2 months ago | culturecombine.com | Alex Orona

Three times a year Steam puts on the Steam Next Fest, a festival of game demos unlike what we’ve seen in gaming since the early days of demos discs . Hundreds of demos for up and coming games are released and promoted to get more eyes on what’s coming in the year, and I’ve put together a list of some of my favorites from the February 2025 Steam Next Fest.