Where Y'at

Once in a blue moon—like when I buy a lottery ticket that I just know is gonna be a winner—I think of moving away, perhaps to Costa Rica, Paris, or Greece. Sometimes I...

It’s the election cycle, football season, dirty laundry is waist high, and it’s ladies night at your local pub … Forget it! You’ve got homework assignments...

Her answer to my question was "just a waitress". These are three words I never enjoy hearing. This is a response that doesn’t begin to give meaning or full credit...

New Orleans is a unique city in many ways.  The food, the music, the party culture, the festivals, the weddings, the graveyards, the culture in general… the list goes...

When you’re faced with two choices – no matter what’s at hand – you’re always going to ask yourself: which one’s better? The same goes for social gaming and gambling and real money gaming. Surely, there’s appeal in both – but which one’s superior? There’s no easy way to answer this question, so let’s just look at both, shall we?   First...

High Voltage Software Opens a New Orleans Office and Looks to Expand It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon as I enter the Pontchartrain Center to visit, "NOLA Gaming Fest", a gathering of local game enthusiasts who compete and socialize.  I move past the people outside, taking a break, squinting in the sun, before they dive back into play a variety of computer and board games.  Inside is a flurry of activity...

About two years ago, I wrote an article in these very pages reviewing video games featuring stages set in New Orleans. Spanning roughly 25 years and six consoles, our pixilated landscape progressed at a rate that our ongoing construction sadly could never keep pace with. Since its publication, I have noticed the article reshared on a handful of instances via Where Y’at’s social channels; each time, readers recommend...

Dice has been an iffy company in the past.  On top of that, Battlefield is published and distributed by EA, notably one of the worst video game companies in the world, as widely argued by gamers everywhere.  With their most recent installment in the Star Wars series, a reboot of Star Wars Battlefront, leaving even the most die-hard Battlefront fans widely disappointed, the years and months leading up to the release of Battlefield...