Revving the Engine Death is the Beginning By Ben Sailer • June 25th, 2021 Reaching the spirit world is not going to be so easy in Path of Kami
Feature Excerpt Imagining the Future in Games By Ruth Cassidy • June 24th, 2021 A vision of tomorrow, today!
Feature Excerpt The Personification of the House By Matthew Brown • June 22nd, 2021 The walls could always talk, we just have to listen.
Andrew Walter Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 21st, 2021 Andrew Walter joins us to chat about his melty RPG artwork.
Eyeing Elsewhere Feeding The Chimera By Phillip Russell • June 11th, 2021 I’m stuck on this feeling I have while playing Biomutant where I want to like it. I want it to succeed, and I want it to figure out its own voice.
Another Look Performing Interactivity By Yussef Cole • June 11th, 2021 The hyper specificity and performativity of play.
Feature Excerpt Dancing in Solitude By Clint Morrison Jr. • June 10th, 2021 Dance has a long history of media representation during and following “plague” years.
Revving the Engine The Occupation: Mind Your Deadline By Ben Sailer • June 8th, 2021 A righteous mission. An edge of danger. A David and Goliath dynamic.
Always Autumn Egress By Autumn Wright • June 3rd, 2021 Autumn explores cycles, hurtling towards the way out of things.
GTA 6: News, Rumours and Release Date By Alan Smithee • June 2nd, 2021 The release date for Grand Theft Auto 6 has yet to be confirmed, but that hasn’t stopped the gaming community from speculating about when it may land.
Forms in Light Architecture and Authority By Justin Reeve • May 31st, 2021 Somewhere, someone is still really mad it’s called the “Racoon Police Department.”
Campfire By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 31st, 2021 Gather round the fire, I’ll tell you a tale…
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 24th, 2021 Every word spoken in this episode is the gospel truth and I will challenge anyone who says otherwise to a duel.
How Online Casinos Are Thriving Today By Alan Smithee • May 19th, 2021 If an industry has stood the test of time, that industry is the online casino one.
Delta Green (1997) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 17th, 2021 Sorry, your security clearance isn’t authorized for this episode.
Revving the Engine Cute ‘Em Up By Ben Sailer • May 14th, 2021 A close chat with the creator of a “first-person cute ’em up.”
I Played It, Like, Twice... Rising Tension: The Odd and Appropriate Specificity of Resident Evil 2: The Board Game By Orrin Grey • May 13th, 2021 I decided it was high time for me to crack open my copy of Resident Evil 2: The Board Game and see how it stacked up against my memories of the real thing.
Forms in Light Members By Justin Reeve • May 11th, 2021 The bodily architecture of Xenoblade Chronicles.
Letter to a Heroine Aerith By Melissa King • May 11th, 2021 For the one who most needed a phoenix down but couldn’t have one.
Casting Deep Meteo The Play About the Scottish Hitman By Levi Rubeck • May 11th, 2021 Hitman (2016) is a game that conjures this spirit of the theater and allows me to flow through that liminal space of being directed while remaining free to wander the stage at my whim.
This Mortal Coyle Model_Interference the Aisha from Neopets By Deirdre Coyle • May 6th, 2021 Deirdre goes to a magical land of friends and Flash.
Collision Detection On Cheat Codes and Disappearing Forever By Ben Sailer • May 5th, 2021 Ben finds a book to a lost era, a time of sharks, genies, and rapid button combinations.
Nick Tofani and Gradient Descent By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 3rd, 2021 In space…you’re just going to die horribly, come on, let’s be honest.
Feature Excerpt Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Middle Earth By Jamie Redgate • April 29th, 2021 How does one go about making a modern fantasy touchstone?
Ashley Riot and the Human Workshop By Andrei Filote • April 21st, 2021 A bit of cleverness that belongs to Vagrant Story is its anticipating the medium’s power to transform mechanical play into story devices and narrative into a concrete praxis.
Nightlife By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 19th, 2021 An RPG about playing creatures of the night, a year before White Wolf’s World of Darkness.
David Hoskins Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 12th, 2021 You’ve seen his pen work in Acid Death Fantasy, The Isle of the Plangent Mage and, soon, in Through Ultan’s Door.
What’s in the Warehouse? By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 5th, 2021 For maximum effect, say the name of this episode using your best impression of Brad Pitt’s Seven whine.
Revving the Engine Under the Hood By Ben Sailer • April 1st, 2021 The beauty of having a dream, and making it so, and then having thousands of others make their dreams within your dream.
I Played It Like Twice Fearful Symmetry: Building the Best of All Possible Overworlds in Overboss By Orrin Grey • April 1st, 2021 In a world where plenty of board games at least claim to be playable with only one person it is, in my experience, rare to find one that actually plays well in solitaire mode.
Forms in Light Parasites By Justin Reeve • March 30th, 2021 The real parasites are always the capitalists.
Collision Detection Controlling the Narrative By Ben Sailer • March 26th, 2021 Why the hell would anyone play two-player sports videogames by themselves?
Feature Excerpt Dungeons and Comrades: The Capitialism Catharsis of Going Under By Andrew Kiya • March 19th, 2021 “Disrupting” is great if by that you mean smashing up corporate hell.
Traveller By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 15th, 2021 Play Traveller! See the galaxy! Pay off your starship mortgage!
