Doug Francisco, Author at HARDTIMES

April 22, 2019

LOS ANGELES — On the heels of the success of Apex Legends, thousands of players have returned to Respawn Entertainment's…

April 18, 2019

BOTHELL, Wash. — Skip Cutscene, a gaming podcast hosted by somewhere between two and eight men, as well as one…

April 1, 2019

LOS ANGELES — 43-year-old burnout and failure Tom Johnson noted this morning that author Charles Bukowski was 50 years old…

March 25, 2019

EL PASO, Texas — Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke was questioned by police on Tuesday after calling to report himself…

March 20, 2019

FALL CITY, Wash. — Local punk Todd McCloud took the annual purge, allowing humanity to succumb to its most criminal…

March 13, 2019

DISTANT PLANET — At this week's mass funeral of some 614 Pikmin, Captain Olimar of the Hocotate Freight Corporation came…

March 12, 2019

LOS ANGELES — It has come to light that USC's Overwatch team is made up entirely of the children of…

February 28, 2019

It's been a week now that I've been stranded here on planet QV9978 and I'm up to my eyeballs in…

February 26, 2019

TOKYO — During a seven minute long press conference this morning, Game Freak, the makers of the popular Pokémon series of…

January 24, 2019

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. — While on a lunch date at Three Brothers Tacos, local nerd John Davis took a…