Paper Towns and Potemkin Villages By Jonathan Fenn • May 18th, 2026 Who wouldn’t want a game world in which people and places actually felt like they were alive?
Exploits Feature The Oxford English Dictionary By J. Ryne Danielson • May 1st, 2026 If words are magic, then dictionaries are spellbooks.
Forms in Light Life Between the Levels By Justin Reeve • May 19th, 2026 The fallacy of social hierarchy is made clearly manifest in the urban landscape of Midgar.
Casting Deep Meteo Final Fantasy IV and the Necessary Weeding of Kings By Levi Rubeck • May 18th, 2026 Monarchies are weeds, and Final Fantasy loves to tear out the plant but leave the roots.
Making Jazz out of La La Land By Jay Weaver • May 15th, 2026 I didn’t yet know that another version of the film existed.
Area of Effect Politics of Space in FFXV By Jay Castello • May 15th, 2026 The way Noctis moves through the world throughout the game is a mirror of his lack of care, even to those allegedly closest to him.
Space is a Flop: Innerspace (1987) on UHD By Orrin Grey • May 14th, 2026 Maybe part of the problem is that Quaid seems to kind of be an ass in real life, too.
The Heavy Pour You Don’t Own Me By Sara Clemens • May 14th, 2026 Who owns a digital body? Who decides how it looks, moves and speaks? Whose interests are served by its existence?
