In the past few months, the silver screen has been blessed with several movies that in all likelihood should've failed. Ready Player One, Tomb Raider, Rampage...but something else happened, people actually liked them. What did they do right that has been so elusive to video game movies in the past? The Checkpoint Crew breaks it down for you.

<p>In the past few months, the silver screen has been blessed with several movies that in all likelihood should've failed. Ready Player One, Tomb Raider, Rampage...but something else happened, people actually liked them. What did they do right that has been so elusive to video game movies in the past? The Checkpoint Crew breaks it down for you.</p>

CheckpointAFK is ready to be a favorite of every self-proclaimed gamer, geek, nerd! From the minds of the CheckpointXP Crew comes a podcast conversation that focuses on gaming pop culture topics near and dear to gamers like the latest season of Stranger Things, Black Mirror and all things Netflix, the best and worst TV intros of all time, or movies like Detective Pikachu or the latest Star Wars movie and giving you behind the scenes peek at CheckpointXP on the road from PAX East, E3, and Blizzcon and more.

<p>CheckpointAFK is ready to be a favorite of every self-proclaimed gamer, geek, nerd! From the minds of the CheckpointXP Crew comes a podcast conversation that focuses on gaming pop culture topics near and dear to gamers like the latest season of Stranger Things, Black Mirror and all things Netflix, the best and worst TV intros of all time, or movies like Detective Pikachu or the latest Star Wars movie and giving you behind the scenes peek at CheckpointXP on the road from PAX East, E3, and Blizzcon and more.</p>

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