SFX for Creators By Alan Smithee • September 23rd, 2021 Film, music, advertisements, computer games, and even YouTube content are incomplete without sound effects.
Collision Detection The Role-Playing Television Future of Tomorrow, Yesterday By Ben Sailer • August 12th, 2021 VR, the hard way. The really hard way.
Paul Raschid on How to Make an FMV Game in the Time of COVID-19 By Drew Byrd • July 13th, 2021 An interview with FMV game director, Paul Raschid.
Collision Detection Dos Vedanya, Kudryavka By Ben Sailer • June 29th, 2021 Correcting the tragedy of the first dog in space.
Another Look Performing Interactivity By Yussef Cole • June 11th, 2021 The hyper specificity and performativity of play.
Here's the Thing Why I’m Leaving YouTube By Rob Rich • January 13th, 2021 After almost five years and hundreds of videos, Rob’s calling it quits and it’s all YouTube’s fault.
Rookie of the Year It’s Complicated By Matt Marrone • October 29th, 2020 After five years, my original Series 0 Apple Watch broke.
Collision Detection We Can’t Afford to Log Off By Ben Sailer • October 1st, 2020 Twitter isn’t just a time-wasting hellsite. It’s also the world’s worst multi-user dungeon.
BoJack, Grief and Remixes in the TikTok Age By Joseph Ehrenkranz • August 6th, 2020 There is no other side. This is it.
Feature Excerpt Digital Phantasmagoria By Phantom • July 6th, 2020 On the art of DataErase – glitch witch, anime porn historian and DIP switch devil.
The McMaster Files A Smaller World By Jason McMaster • May 10th, 2020 With everything that’s going on, Jason’s found that his favorite Twitch streamers have helped make things a bit easier and the world a little smaller.
Exploits Feature Modernism and Auto-Tune By Noah Springer • March 20th, 2020 “I see auto-tune playing the same role in hip hop in the last two decades as photography played in art in the 19th and early 20th century.”
Here's the Thing I’m Terrified of Disney+ By Rob Rich • December 11th, 2019 Streaming services have been A thing for several years now, with more and more companies trying their hand at it. Even Disney. But Rob’s a bit nervous about the massive entertainment corporation’s efforts.
Memscape The History of Twitter’s Little Bunnies By Alyse Stanley • January 9th, 2019 Twitter’s ushering in a new age of Ascii art, whether its users know it or not.
Documentary Sunday Instrumental Intimacies: An Interview with Dr. Melissa Littlefield By Megan Condis • July 3rd, 2018 Melissa Littlefield, the author of Instrumental Intimacies: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control, talks with Megan Condis about fashion technologies that can read our minds.
Feature Excerpt Lasagna Cat and the Internet We Lost By David Wolinsky • January 16th, 2018 David Wolinsky talks to Jeffrey Max and Zach Johnson – collectively known as Fatal Frame – about the return of Lasagna Cat and the internet we used to have.
Bringing Back The Dead In Films By Michael Edwards • February 10th, 2017 Just because we have the technology to do this doesn’t mean we have to do it.
There is Nothing Virtual About VR By David Shimomura • February 6th, 2017 “The issue with “virtual reality” as a term isn’t the virtual part, it’s the reality part.”
A Normal Lost Phone: A Coming-of-Age Tale For the Digital Age By Khee Hoon Chan • January 24th, 2017 “A Normal Lost Phone is an immersive experience because it does feel like you’re snooping about in an abandoned phone most times.”
Pokémon Red and Blue Reflect Your Worldview As a Kid By Khee Hoon Chan • December 13th, 2016 “Minor but illogical details, like how my poor mum couldn’t afford a bed while I had an entire room to myself, were inconsequential to my eight-year-old self.”
Watch Dogs 2: It’s Just a Game, Right? By Matt Sayer • December 6th, 2016 Watch Dogs 2 has an identity crisis. One part game, one part warning for the future, it sends a confused message that suffers for its interactivity.
Maybe Emily Should Stay Away, Too By Matt Sayer • November 21st, 2016 “Emily is not a person but rather a toy to be played with, and in a game that deals with issues of consent and exploitation, this is especially heinous.”
Civilization VI Has the Best Opening. Ever. By David Shimomura • November 17th, 2016 “Sometimes, something as simple as an introduction can remind us that, as a civilization, we’ve come so very far but that we’ve still so much further to go.”
The Cinematography of Horror Games By Matthew Byrd • November 17th, 2016 “The fact that no one clear camera solution exists means that the horror genre serves as a playground for video game cinematography.”
Smash Up: Steam Early Access Impressions By Sam Desatoff • November 16th, 2016 A great table top game with a not-so-great digital counterpart…
Keep Your Things in a Place Meant to Hide By David Wolinsky • November 8th, 2016 Kevin Moyer on posthumously releasing Elliott Smith’s music & why you should care about the death of radio.
Become the Early Internet’s Big Brother in Hypnospace Outlaw By Khee Hoon Chan • September 20th, 2016 An ode to the early internet and all the hideous design that came with it.
The Future of Pokemon After Pokemon GO By David Shimomura • July 25th, 2016 Pokemon GO has shown us where Pokemon can go, but just how far will it go?
Backlog Compromises By Gavin Craig • July 8th, 2016 Gavin dug out the CRT and PS2 to see what the past’s future was like and is quickly seduced by the dark side.
Historian of the Future: An Interview with Andrew Groen By Megan Condis • May 9th, 2016 Megan had the opportunity to sit down with Andrew Groen, author of Empires of EVE
Rise of the Rogue-like Platformer By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2016 Derek Yu, creator of Spelunky, has released a book on game making. Wanna know our thoughts?
The Future of Fairy Tales By Matt Sayer • March 22nd, 2016 The latest motion-capture technology could completely change the way parents interact with their kids.
Californium is a Fiction Reference Wrapped in a Drug-Addled Riddle By Megan Condis • March 14th, 2016 Philip K. Dick influence is heavy in Californium, but might-be-winks and could-be-nudges may be just as frustrating as exciting for fans.
Virtual Reality In Perspective By Matt Sayer • March 1st, 2016 VR with be in the hands of the masses in just a few months. Matt has a new perspective on the infamous price tags.
University of Minnesota Struts its Culture with a Game Jam By Jeremiah Cheney • February 11th, 2016 Game culture has permeated all the way to the grim and frostbitten North!
GameStop’s Publishing Future By Jeremiah Cheney • February 4th, 2016 GameStop is nothing if not malleable. Where are they going with their future as a publisher?
Oculus Rift Is Grossly Underpriced By Charles Singletary • January 22nd, 2016 Gaming is but one small part of the VR experience, but many seem to be forgetting that when criticizing the $600 price tag.
Accidentally Killing the World With Kindness By Declan Taggart • January 8th, 2016 Just some of the ways that humanity might accidentally shoot itself in the foot
How Undertale Broke the Internet By Megan Condis • December 22nd, 2015 When Undertale won GameFAQs’ annual Best Game Ever bracket, the community went insane. But why?
Rookie of the Year The Message, Received By Matt Marrone • December 18th, 2015 Matt Marrone recounts his history with fiction podcasts, starting with Welles’ 1938 War of the Worlds and ending with the 2015 The Message.
