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Key art for Chants of Sennaar where three red robed figures with different headwear are standing under a yellow sky

Maslow’s Power Fantasy: Sometimes You Need A Win

By Chris Revelle • April 10th, 2026

A power fantasy about creating peace and mutualism between communities.

Current Issue

A screenshot from Creature Kitchen where a low poly racoon is sitting on a rocking chair on a porch at night by a lamp and some wind chimes and it's cozy and creepy

How Creature Kitchen Blends Creepy and Cozy

By Bea Cadigan • April 8th, 2026

Creature Kitchen primes the player for horror that never comes.

Exploits Feature

A Romance Book Is Not an Instruction Manual

By Beatrix Kondo • April 1st, 2026

Why fix problems when you can just blame them on romance novels?

Totally Generic

Hamnet

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 10th, 2026

Entering into any kind of relationship that you don’t intend to break is accepting death as a third.

Area of Effect

A screenshot from Flotsam shows a floating town constructed entirely from salvaged garbage and ocean debris.

Captain of the Ship

By Jay Castello • April 9th, 2026

I have a confession to make. Not everybody in my world of Flotsam made it.

Rookie of the Year

A screenshot from Donkey Kong Bonanza has Donkey Kong holding his cheeks while making a goofy face, miniature bananas dancing in his eyes.

Therapy Bananza!

By Matt Marrone • April 8th, 2026

Pounding your chest to activate a Bananza, then annihilating everything around you at breakneck speed – that is the true joy of the game.

Don't Stop Believing

Wonder Woman, wielding a gigantic blade, battles several dragon-like creatures known as harbingers.

Absolute Wonder Woman Embraces Its Wild Religious Heritage Beautifully

By Elijah Beahm • April 7th, 2026

Diana prays. She prays often, and when I say she prays, I don’t mean like in a cliche Hollywood way.

Promotional art for Knights of the Old Republic featuring the Jedi Bastila in a brown outfit and double-sided green lightsaber

What Knights of the Old Republic Taught Me About Wanting Too Much

By Mer Mora • April 6th, 2026

Her reaction did not push me away though – it pulled me in.

TSR Art Books

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 6th, 2026

Art & Arcana? Pffft, go back to the source!

The box art for all the films in the Samurai Revolution Trilogy box with a black and white illustration of a Smurai and film posters for the three blu-ray disc boxes

Being a Samurai is a Thankless Task: Eiichi Kudo’s Samurai Revolution Trilogy

By Orrin Grey • April 3rd, 2026

Violence is often the only solution – but never a good one.

Magazine Columns

fictional companions

This Mortal Coyle

Deirdre Coyle

finding digital grace

Don't Stop Believing

Elijah Beahm

touch digital grass

Area of Effect

Jay Castello

interfacing in the now

Mind Palaces

Maddi Chilton

after we’ve moved on

Past Presence

Dr. Emily Price

kcab ti nur

Run It Back

Oluwatayo Adewole

the feedback loop

Interlinked

Phoenix Simms

elsewhere,here

Totally Generic

Natasha Ochshorn

games, music and poetry

Casting Deep Meteo

Levi Rubeck

The art of games criticism

Dialogue

Autumn Wright

what we’re afraid of

Here Be Monsters

Emma Kostopolus

A guest in queer spaces

The Guest

Amanda Hudgins

ruminations on the riff

Noise Complaint

Ben Sailer

on being something else

Nonhuman Meditations

Alyssa Wejebe

architecture and games

Forms in Light

Justin Reeve

ridicule and reverence

Rookie of the Year

Matt Marrone

a monthly soapbox

Here's the Thing

Rob Rich

now this

Noah's Beat Box

Noah Springer