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Nick Martens

Apple and Nintendo are more alike than you may realize. In the last of a three-part series, Nick Martens examines why the companies ignore their adoring fanboys and how simple touch controls outclass more elaborate control schemes.

Good Morning, Captain

by Nick Martens on July 16, 2007

Slint’s 1991 release Spiderland is considered by many to be a seminal post-rock album. Nick Martens examines the album’s brilliance and the band’s track-by-track performance of it at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.

Apple and Nintendo are more alike than you might realize. In the second of a three-part series, Nick Martens explores the importance of world-class first-party software and the supremacy of simple portables.

Fuck the Grand Canyon

by Nick Martens on June 27, 2007

Hiking down the Grand Canyon sucks. Seasoned mountain man Nick Martens admonishes one of Earth’s greatest natural wonders in a demented rant accompanied by his patented brand of amateurish landscape photography.

Apple and Nintendo are more alike than you might realize. In the first of a three-part series, Nick Martens discusses events that occurred before he was born to show you how much corporate DNA everybody’s favorite tech companies share.