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Final Fantasy x Politics-2: Nonvincere

Key art for Final Fantasy Tactics with illustrations of Delita in gold armor and slick back hair and Ramza in dark armor with blond hair and silhouettes of various other job classes

Did Final Fantasy Tactics Predict the Rise of the Technocrats?

By Chris Revelle • June 2nd, 2026

We made our evil corrupting gems ourselves.

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Exploits Feature

Octavia’s Brood

By Isabella Irtifa • June 1st, 2026

Since finishing the anthology, I kept returning to its insistence that organizing itself is a form of visionary fiction. To organize is to believe another world can – and must – exist.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – May 2026

By David Shimomura • May 21st, 2026

Just a little more Final Fantasy, as a treat.

Here Be Monsters

Leon S. Kennedy, pistol drawn, approaches a group of zombies in a fog-filled city street.

Requiem for a Nightmare: The Dissonance of Resident Evil 9

By Emma Kostopolus • June 2nd, 2026

Saying you “like Resident Evil” can mean multiple, sometimes contradictory, things.

We’ll Be Back

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 1st, 2026

But not before a nice, long vacation.

Mind Palaces

Key art from the Borderlands videogame shows the character known as Psycho wearing a distinctive white and brown vault hunter mask with glowing blue eyes and a mechanical respirator over the mouth and holding his right hand to his temple in a finger-gun gesture.

Empty Worlds of Wonder

By Maddi Chilton • May 29th, 2026

As games get larger, mechanically denser and infinitely longer, I have a renewed appreciation for Borderlands’ thinness.

A screenshot from Mad Men where a child-made valentine that says I Love you Daddy in a pink heart surrounded by macaroni sits atop an ad design sketch saying Where are you going

THAT’S WHAT THE BLOG IS FOR! Mad Men S2E1–S2E3

By Natasha Ochshorn • May 28th, 2026

A robe over pajamas is basically a comfy suit.

Past Presence

A blue-skinned person with a pink hat wears large headphones and a pink-and-black striped jacket. They are positioned to the right, eyes closed with a serene expression. In the center, a diamond-shaped pink street sign reads "Titanium Court" with a yellow scribbled graphic underneath the text.

What is Titanium Court About? An Investigation

By Dr. Emily Price • May 28th, 2026

I felt it through my whole playthrough: the sense that the game was observing me observing it, not to pull the rug from under me, but to ask, “did you like it?”