October 11th, 2018It’s that time of year again- Halloween! Okay, technically Halloween doesn’t come until the 31st of October, but it’s much more fun to consider all of October as “Halloween” to keep the spooky times going strong. Now, these spooky times can’t be celebrated without your normal, everyday objects, right? No, we’re talking the...
August 27th, 2018The thought of an alien invasion is, in every sense, pretty scary. While not something that is likely to happen as we know it now, there has always been that sense of "what if?" when it comes to films about aliens.
That is why so much of pop culture brings the idea of horror and frights into the standard alien invasion of a planet. With...
July 12th, 2018In the blink of an eye and with the giant comic “pow,” the annual San Diego Comic-Con International is upon us. The big event, just a week away, will bring in the masses of fans, professionals, artists, creators, and more all descending on San Diego, California to celebrate the very best of pop culture.
With all those people...
May 18th, 2018When Overwatch launched on May 24th, 2016, the gaming world was taken by storm. The game, which had brought in about 9.7 million players for its open beta, was finally in the hands of the public when the servers officially went live.
We personally remember booting up the game for the first time and diving into the game. We remember...
May 1st, 2018According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a role model is defined as a person looked to by others as an example to be imitated. There are role models in our normal everyday lives that are tangible real people such as your friends, a humanitarian figure, etc., but there are also those figures in pop culture that fully take up that...
April 11th, 2018Tucked away in the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Center in Irwindale, California lays a small port village that appears each year around this time. As you walk towards the front gates of the village, your senses are hit with a barrage of new and exciting! Scents and smells make your mouth water, sounds make year ears perk up, and your eyes...
March 21st, 2018It's con season again, kicking off with WonderCon Anaheim! Next weekend, March 23rd-25th, attendees ranging from convention goers to pop culture fanatics, cosplayers and comic book fans, plus the general geeky types, will converge on the Anaheim Convention center for a weekend celebrating the best of popular culture.
The convention...
February 5th, 2018This month, Loot Crate and Loot Crate DX are celebrating the heroes in pop culture that do all they can to PROTECT the people, places, and things they care most about. In their act of protecting, they also have some of their own awesome ways to protect themselves.
That’s right, we’re talking badass armors and more! Ranging from...
January 3rd, 2018Relationships are not always a permanent state of being, especially when it comes to the various states of books, television, and film. The Daily Crate recently discussed some of the ships that went the distance in pop culture, which you can read here!
On the other side of those time-tested relationships, there are the ones that we want...
December 18th, 2017Is it safe for us to assume that at one point in your life of pop culture, you’ve pondered the question of “what if those two characters got together in a relationship?” We think it is.
Fans of pop culture have been looking to fictional characters for ages while hoping and praying for a relationship to work out in the end. Many...
December 4th, 2017It’s that time of the year: the Holidays. Some people started putting up Christmas decorations in October (don’t be that person, please) while others were counting days until they could pull out their collection of ugly sweaters, one for each holiday party invite received.
A staple part of the holiday season is also the music. You...
November 13th, 2017Another BlizzCon has come and gone, but with the event’s end come all of the juicy news and upcoming details for Blizzard Entertainment games that were announced! Of those games, the team-based shooter Overwatch announced one big piece of news after the other during the two days of the convention, as well as thrilled fans of the...
November 2nd, 2017For the past eleven years, the mass of fans for Blizzard Entertainment have gathered for the event widely known as BlizzCon. BlizzCon returns again this year THIS WEEKEND, November 3rd and 4th, for two days of all things Blizzard Entertainment.
Whether you’re a fan of World of Warcraft, take on your opponents in Heroes of the Storm,...
October 19th, 2017Over the show’s thirteen seasons, Supernatural has provided the daunting task of bringing to light creatures that scares the audiences as well as keeping the show true to its beginnings: “saving people, hunting things: the family business.”
We here at the Daily Crate have compiled a short list of the many creatures that have been...
October 10th, 2017Fantasy. Adventure. Flying Trains? Dapper Crabs? This went places. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the best-selling open-world action role-playing video game, the world of mods (modifications) is all the rage and can add to the overall experience of the game itself. You want to have extra detail on the blades of grass and in the snowy...
September 21st, 2017From their earliest days, comic book heroes and characters have all had their origin stories, ones that make the reader keep flipping the pages, wanting to know more and more about how their favorite hero came to be and what information their backstory might hold to beating that enemy in the future.
While many heroes have their own...
August 17th, 2017One of the biggest titles in gaming right now is none other than Overwatch. Beyond the scores of people who play the game in the comfort of their own homes, there are those take on the higher edge of the game and compete for pride and prize.
...I'm talking about the Overwatch World Cup! Hosted at BlizzCon in Anaheim, California, the...
August 1st, 2017I admit that the title is somewhat of an exaggeration, but the worlds that dot the Kingdom Hearts universe can be interpreted as one of two ways for the player handling the controller: magical or horrible.
Because I am personally excited to finally see Kingdom Hearts 3 actually coming to fruition and excited about this month’s KINGDOM...
June 28th, 2017Ah, summer. A time to work on fully embracing being the ultimate couch potato...
The Daily Crate has even featured a handy-dandy list of what shows you should be watching to kick off your summer. This time around, I'm bringing up three shows of the animated variety that are sure to satisfy your fandom- whether it's your anime loving...
June 21st, 2017E3 2017 has come and gone and I, like many other, watched in wonder as the best of the gaming and electronics world brought their creations to the stage for all to see.
As usual, the big names in gaming: Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and more dropped new games and old favorites, new technology and yes, even more Skyrim. There was...
