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The Intersection of News, Arts, and Culture at Champlain College

The Crossover

The Intersection of News, Arts, and Culture at Champlain College

The Crossover

The Intersection of News, Arts, and Culture at Champlain College

The Crossover

Celldweller Returns from the Dungeon with Knockout Fifth Album

Celldweller Returns from the Dungeon with Knockout Fifth Album

Adrian Randall, Staff Writer October 24, 2022

Celldweller can only be described as one of the more creative in a long line of genre-blending artists. Emerging with the change of the millennium and in the dying embers of leader Scott David “Klayton”...

TV Prequel "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" Redeems Ridiculed Game "Cyberpunk: 2077"

TV Prequel “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” Redeems Ridiculed Game “Cyberpunk: 2077”

Adrian Randall, Staff Writer October 18, 2022

In 2012, CD Projekt Red announced an ambitious game which then became the biggest laughing stock of the then-recently-released ninth generation of consoles, “Cyberpunk: 2077.” The game was horribly...

Howl's Moving Castle and Its Commentary on the Iraq War

Howl’s Moving Castle and Its Commentary on the Iraq War

Adrian Randall, Staff Writer October 12, 2022

The Iraq War was a brutal conflict that spanned a majority of our lives as current college students. Lasting from 2003 to 2011, it took anywhere between 34,000 and 37,000 lives. The war was given a large...

September Music Roundup: Releases from a Wide Spectrum of Genres

September Music Roundup: Releases from a Wide Spectrum of Genres

Adrian Randall, Staff Writer October 4, 2022

September is a time for many things: the return to school, the anticipation of Halloween the following month, and birthdays galore. This September, however, has also been bursting with an utter smorgasbord...

31 Movies I'm Watching in October

31 Movies I’m Watching in October

Kelley Lebahn, Staff Writer September 30, 2022

As a full-time college student, watching a movie every night for a month may not be the best use of your time, but if you’re up for the challenge and have a love for Halloween, I would like to introduce...

The cover of Joanna Klink's poetry book, Raptus.

The Crossover’s Must-Read Books for Summer Break (2022)

Crossover Staff May 13, 2022

Haley Seymour, Editor in Chief - I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick is a young adult mystery that will have you getting whiplash from the amount of plot twists. I pride myself in often being able to guess...

Screengrab from The Batman.

The Batman: A Three-Hour Deconstruction of American Mythology

Eric Banks, Staff Writer May 4, 2022

Studios love superheroes. They’ve cranked out countless comic book movies throughout the past decade, almost all of which have been box office smashes. And perhaps no hero has received as many cinematic...

A heart transplant surgery in Lviv, Ukraine. Photo by: James Buck.

Multimedia Journalist and Photographer James Buck Ventures to Ukraine and Reflects on Past Overseas Trips

Haley Seymour, Editor in Chief May 2, 2022

“I watched that one person, this donor, you know, very gracefully, give up his organs and die. And then I watched those give life to the next person,” James Buck said, holding back tears as he recounted...

Screengrab from "Ya Boy Kongming"

‘Ya Boy Kongming’ Revisits the Three Kingdoms Period

Asher Chase, Contributor May 2, 2022

Zhuge Liang, famous strategist of Liu Bei, and one of the greatest minds during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280 AD) isn’t someone to be associated with modern culture, right? WRONG! Kongming has returned...

Song cover for Hey, Hey, Rise Up

Pink Floyd Releases First New Song in Three Decades

Jack Zuccareno, Contributor April 26, 2022

For the first time since their 1994 release of "The Division Bell," the band Pink Floyd has come forward with a new single “Hey Hey Rise Up.” They are featured on this new track alongside Ukrainian...

Ib title page.

Japanese Indie Developer Remakes 2012 Fan-Favorite Game, Ib

Marjorie Candreva, Contributor April 26, 2022

"You and the rose are connected. Know the weight of your own life." On February 27, 2012, a Japanese indie developer who goes by the name kouri published their first game; a role-playing game (RPG)...

Members of Champlain College Esports.

Digital Assimilation: Esports In An Age of Inclusivity

Katie McGuckin, Contributor April 21, 2022

Azure eyes dilate as a quartet of blades soar across the field, embedding themselves into the animated outline of her opponent. A suave and elegant voice announces the tournament’s champions as a victory...

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