Bahnsen Knights is Ready to Fright!

This ain’t no ordinary road trip! Just what Bahnsen Knights offers is more than your typical X-Files frightmare!

Bahnsen Knights Title CardLCB Game Studio
Chorus Worldwide

Any fan of the retro style Pixel Pulps series of interactive adventure, will be thrilled to hear Bahnsen Knights is now here! It’s available to play on multiple platforms, like the Nintendo Switch, PS4|5, X Box with support for English, Spanish, German, French, and Japanese languages. That is, if you’ve played either Mothmen 1966 (review) and Varney Lake, this next novel will be on the shopping list! This third work in the series looks promising, and for any fan of pulp fiction or that 80s digital style, this game is for you!

From the Press Release: 

Follow Toni, the cult’s leader and former car salesman, to figure out what happened to Boulder’s friend and missing partner, Cupra. Learn just exactly what these “route exorcisms” are that everyone’s talking about before Boulder meets an untimely demise. Here, you’ll be driving through multiple outcomes of dark conclusions and explore a choice-based detective tale that branches into different aspects of humanity’s capacity for terror.

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NAQT VANE’s New Wave/Synth J-Pop is All About Dispersion & “Puzzle” Music Video Debut

To celebrate the album release, the band will hold a concert in Japan titled NAQT VANE Special Event -Dispersion – on May 11, 2024.

NAQT VANE DispersionJapanese ensemble unit NAQT VANE released their first full-length album, ‘Dispersion’, last week, and it’s slowly climbing up the charts. This title is a reference to the way that light is refracted through a gemstone, and its meaning is significant when considering the names of each track.

From the Press Release:

Here, the strength to which light is dispersed varies depending on the type of jewel, and diamonds have a perfectly balanced dispersion that makes them shine so vividly. NAQT VANE’s message on ‘Dispersion’ is that just as each gem shines in its own way, a group of people who embrace their differences can unite to create a dazzling brilliance.

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TheNFB at Victoria Film Festival 2024 News

In what’s special about this year’s spotlight on TheNFB’s programming is that they are staying current on what’s important that locals should really know about this province and Canada’s future.

National Film Board of Canada TheNFB LogoFebruary 2 to 11, 2024
Victoria, British Columbia
Various Venues

The 30th edition of the Victoria Film Festival (VFF) will soon be here, and this year, the National Film Board of Canada (TheNFB) have four works being presented. Two are documentaries, and the other are shorts to be offered in their respective programs.

The Girl with the Red Beret PosterI’m particularly interested in The Girl with the Red Beret by Janet Perlman. It was named Best International Short at the Los Angeles Animation Festival and may well check this out along with the mini documentary, Modern Goose. Both are part of the “Returning” program (ticket link), playing Feb 9, 2024. This showcase’s theme is simply about coming home, going back and unfinished business.

Details on the feature length works are as follows:

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When Christmas Gremlins Play Havoc….

Christmas GremlinsThat was embarassing. Apparently some gremlins have snuck onto the system and had some fun with some really old posts of ours and reposted them during our break. We didn’t notice right away, and hopefully these critters have been kicked back to whence they came.

Whether that was a result of us experimenting with some new plugins for the site during the downtime or some other weirdness, the mess has been cleaned up, plugins deleted (if not disabled) and those articles been put back to past where they should belong–rather than be current.

Our apologies and hopefully the glitch in the matrix is fixed.

Tis the Holiday Season for R&R, and ….

Since Optimus Prime says it’s time to recharge, how can we could say no to him?

Happy Holidays from Otakunoculture

We will return after the New Year, all ready to roll out with some lists on what to look forward to in 2024! Also, during our break we will take a look at some late content, and perhaps also review a few items that’s arrived under our Christmas tree!