by Sohrab Osati | Oct 8, 2021 | Life
A week ago today, Allegra and I celebrated our six year wedding anniversary at our favorite place, Disneyland. Being the huge Marvel fans that we are, it should come as no surprise that we’ve spent a lot of time at Avengers Campus, the newest land in Disney...
by Sohrab Osati | Jul 30, 2021 | Tech
Launched in 2013, the BMW i3 should have ushered in the era of electrification—not only for the German automaker, but for much of the world. No, BMW wasn’t going to single handedly convince us to get rid of our petrol-powered cars, but between the affordable,...
by Sohrab Osati | Jul 16, 2021 | Gaming
Hideo Kojima, the famed Metal Gear creator, recently took to Twitter to set straight a record that didn’t need to be set straight. For context, recently on PlayStation Blog, Jay Boor, Head of Publishing at Kojima Productions, revealed Death Stranding Director’s Cut....
by Sohrab Osati | Jul 2, 2021 | Gaming
Make no mistake, cloud and subscription gaming are in all probability the future of home consoles, but where I was once bullish about their impact and how they could be the key to growing the industry, I no longer believe that to be true. At best, greater flexibility...
by Sohrab Osati | Jun 18, 2021 | Tech
Chances are, if you’re on tech Twitter or anywhere else filled with tech pundits, that at some point, you’ve come across someone dunking on the Apple Magic Mouse. Like so many Apple products, its design is iconic yet its function is controversial. The...
by Sohrab Osati | Jun 11, 2021 | Gaming
Depending on who you ask, gaming is either an unstoppable juggernaut or an industry that’s burning bright like a star, moments before it goes supernova and eventually goes cold. Now, I should preface by saying that I don’t believe the video game industry...
by Sohrab Osati | Jun 4, 2021 | Tech
Whether it’s in the comments section or in a tweet, we’ve all seen the accusation, “that YouTuber is being paid by the company to say that.” Though anecdotal, in my 10+ years of being a “journalist,” I’ve never once been...
by Sohrab Osati | Feb 14, 2020 | Life
I’ve spent enough time on the interwebs to realize how lucky I am compared to many Americans. It only takes being on your social platform of choice a handful of times in a week to find countless posts about people who have to choose between treatment or a roof over...
by Sohrab Osati | Jan 6, 2020 | Life
Around the time the Sony CES 2019 keynote was set to open its doors to reporters who’d be greeted with a bevy of excited employees, engineers, and execs stationed between covered products that were announced a mere hour later on stage, I was still ‘stuck’ back in Los...
by Sohrab Osati | Feb 5, 2019 | Life
You can’t ever prepare for cancer, no matter how much warning you’ve been given. Instead, the best you can do is adapt to your new normals and make the best of them. A month ago, I went into surgery for what turned out to be stage 3 colon cancer. During my multi-hour...
