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SPRAWL Kills the Past to Save It: An Interview with MAETH

By Elijah Beahm • September 25th, 2023

SPRAWL is “like the games you remember playing on the computer in the 90’s as you remember them; not as they actually were.”

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Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – September 2023

By David Shimomura • September 18th, 2023

Remember remember, the 21st night of September.

Interlinked

Grounding The Games Industry

By Phoenix Simms • September 29th, 2023

Games, despite all their innovative trappings, are trash. To be more specific – games can create a lot of socioeconomic trash.

Here Be Monsters

RE7 as American Folk Horror

By Emma Kostopolus • September 28th, 2023

Folk horror is having a minute in the scholarly study of horror.

Mind Palaces

A still from The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart showing a a close-up on a blonde boy wearing a Batman Halloween mask in front of a blue summer sky.

A Secret Third Thing

By Maddi Chilton • September 27th, 2023

The Venture Bros. premiered in 2004. Seven seasons later, it finally gets its finale, or what amounts to one.

Past Presence

A screenshot from Neo Cab shows several cars traffic jamming around cool, neon-lit city streets.

Object Lessons #2: Smartphone

By Emily Price • September 26th, 2023

How do you represent a technology that’s had an earthquake’s impact, that almost everyone owns and that has made our private lives public?

Funeral Rites

Challenge Cult Horror with Maximum Mystic Punks Vol 2: Crypt

By Alyssa Wejebe • September 25th, 2023

“I’ve always been fascinated with medieval crypts, ossuaries and mausoleums,” Mystic Punks series creator Anthony Meloro says. “So, placing a dungeon crawl in one is an obvious choice.”

The Dare

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 25th, 2023

Trick or treat!

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A robed figure with spear and shield stands on the bank of a river of fire, arms aloft.

May Chaos Take the World

By Gerry Hart • September 22nd, 2023

The cosmology of Elden Ring’s world is complex and daunting even for veteran players, but there is little in the way of ambiguity with the Frenzied Flame.

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AI is Advancing Rapidly – The Outer Worlds Tells Us Why That’s Bad

By Mira Lazine • September 21st, 2023

The Outer Worlds gives us insight into what it’s like to live in a society run exclusively by corporations, but it also gives us insight into what it’s like to live in a world dominated by AI.

A crop of the cover and title text for The Cloven, with a lot of vegetation and action going on with some fuzzy goat legs in the mix all behind the text of the title

The Cloven Is A Conspiracy Thriller For Everyone Just Wanting To Exist

By Elijah Beahm • September 19th, 2023

This is a cohesive creative vision the likes of which most could only dream of.

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