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The title screen for the game Myst, featuring the game's name spelled out in a rusty swirling font

The Joys of Getting Lost in the Myst

By Jay Norton • December 1st, 2022

I felt as if I was ready to tear my way through the rest of Myst and prove that I didn’t need a walkthrough. That’s not exactly what happened.

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My Least Favorite C-Word

By M. Shaw • December 1st, 2022

Every brush I’ve had with actually celebrating Christmas has been a complete horror show.

This Mortal Coyle

On Organizing My Skyrim Library and Living in a Human Body

By Deirdre Coyle • December 2nd, 2022

Organizing books makes me not care that I’m a decaying meat-coated skeleton living by the light of a dying star. I love skeletons! I love stars! Who cares, just let me read!

I Played It, Like, Twice...

The covers for Bardsung and Myth placed next to each other. Bardsung has a cloaked character with horns, or maybe a jester hat, grinning and holding a lute. Myth has an elfin warrior with a bow standing against a horde of point-eared orcs while magical fire flies in the background

Versus Mode: Myth x Bardsung

By Orrin Grey • November 30th, 2022

Both Bardsung and Myth are dungeon-crawl games at the high end of the complexity scale, but that’s where the surface similarities end.

Self-Insert

The full cover art from the dust jacket of the American release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, featuring Harry, Ron and Hermione being carried to safety from a dungeon by Fawkes the phoenix.

Elevating Trash

By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2022

If you, dear reader, are someone who loves Harry Potter, do yourself the service of rereading the series as an adult. Interrogate it. Be prepared to actually know what you’re talking about.

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Elden Ring

By Connor Queen • November 30th, 2022

Love and monsters.

Friction Burns

A screenshot from Against the Storm, showing a translucent magical powerline, a shimmering church, some thorny trees and mushrooms showing a lot of potential hostility

Against the Storm, Against Randomness, Against the Inevitable

By Ruth Cassidy • November 29th, 2022

An exploration of the tensions you play with, vs the tensions the game’s text shows you. It isn’t enough to survive against all odds – for the purpose of your task list, that’s simply assumed.

Run It Back

A black and white photograph of several Black Americans rioting in the street in the 1970s.

1973

By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 29th, 2022

A poetic embodiment of the fever-dream feelings within The Spook Who Sat By The Door and Ganja & Hess.

The Beat Box

Selection from Danger Mouse and Black Thought's Cheat Codes album. Several black-and-white photographs of mens' heads have been altered to have red and green bullseyes over their eyes.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2022

By Noah Springer • November 28th, 2022

Noah shifts his focus from monsters and the hip hop of the past to focus on the here and now.

Cadabra Records

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 28th, 2022

Classic horror tales on vinyl!

Revving the Engine

The tiny protagonist of A Tale of Paper: Refolded runs across a desk scattered with papers, which lay like carpets beneath the character's feet.

Breaking Away From the Fold

By Justin Reeve • November 23rd, 2022

A Tale of Paper: Refolded poses a number of interesting questions including the extent to which our most deeply held hopes and ambitions can impact the people around us.

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