The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star By Amanda Hudgins • January 20th, 2020 There’s probably some academic who would be able to stay what stage of capitalism is a multi-part expose about the beauty industry that is actually a seven part ad for a makeup palette.
Musings When in Hell, We Do Shots At the Bar By Blake Hester • January 14th, 2020 For something that marketed itself as a funny, drunken romp through hell, Afterparty sure feels a lot like an AA meeting.
The McMaster Files The Dreamers of the Dreams By Jason McMaster • January 14th, 2020 Jason says goodbye to the architect behind one fondly remembered virtual bastion.
Collision Detection There’s No Such Thing as a Neutral War Story By Ben Sailer • January 14th, 2020 Like literally every other piece of media, videogames don’t exist in a vacuum.
Forms in Light Beyond Blueprints By Justin Reeve • January 13th, 2020 Manifold Garden is filled with structures that you’ll never see on a blueprint because they would be impossible to actually build.
Here's the Thing An Ode to the Fan Mode By Rob Rich • January 11th, 2020 It took some time, but Rob has realized that sometimes the best way to “fix” a toy is to stop following the instructions.
Feature Excerpt Undercurrent: Sea of Solitude’s Monsters Undermine a Mental Health Journey By Caitlin Galiz-Rowe • December 20th, 2019 The protagonist’s inner demons seem to get the least screen time for a game about monsters.
Feature Excerpt The Art of LARP By Sharang Biswas • December 20th, 2019 LARPing is as much about community and art as it is about roleplaying.
Musings From Kamurocho, With Love By Blake Hester • December 13th, 2019 Halfway around the world, in a city he’s never been to before, Blake finds a place he knows as well as his home.
Another Look Tea and Warfare By Yussef Cole • December 9th, 2019 In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, tea is a pleasant diversion that holds a deeper meaning.
Because Bigger is Better: RoboCop (1987) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2019 “Our modern morass fits right in with the RoboCop…”
No Accounting for Tastes WaveRunner 2140 By Adam Boffa • November 13th, 2019 In New York 2140, neoliberalism still reigns supreme. But maybe even this dire prediction is too optimistic.
Forms in Light Function and Fiction By Justin Reeve • November 12th, 2019 Destiny 2 has a more complex relationship with Modernism than its clean-cut buildings would suggest.
Musings Concerts Suck, But Landon Tewers Doesn’t By Blake Hester • November 11th, 2019 Blake sees his first concert in four years and it’s…weird.
This Mortal Coyle Alice from American McGee’s Alice By Deirdre Coyle • November 8th, 2019 American McGee’s series seemed like a natural extension of Deirdre’s lifelong Alice in Wonderland obsession.
Another Look Planting Seeds in the Apocalypse By Yussef Cole • November 7th, 2019 Mutazione owes its narrative to those who now survive in spite of colonialism and it’s world-ending tendencies.
The Heavy Pour This Time It’s Personal By Sara Clemens • November 6th, 2019 Sara got to meet Pee-wee Herman at this year’s NYCC and only freaked out a little.
Exploits Feature No Laughing Matter By Violet Adele Bloch • November 1st, 2019 To me, Joker is like a theatrically released omen.
A Travelogue in Wanderlust and Medicine in 7 Parts By Amanda Hudgins • October 29th, 2019 2018 was the year of travel and 2019 was the year of crying in parking lots over healthcare
The Satanic Panic By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 28th, 2019 This week, we look at Dungeons & Dragons and its part in the Satanic Panic.
Episode 16: Joker By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • October 23rd, 2019 On tap: Joker, Paul Reubens and a bad version of Phantom of the Opera.
Unwinnable Monthly – October 2019 By Stu Horvath • October 17th, 2019 It’s October, and that means the latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly is full of horrors of all sorts…
Forms in Light Anomalous Architecture By Justin Reeve • October 14th, 2019 If some of the buildings look weird in Yakuza Kiwami 2, you can blame Japanese regulations.
Clacking Out a Few Kind Words By Levi Rubeck • October 10th, 2019 Levi plays Kind Words, a game about comforting and being comforted.
Rookie of the Year Star Trek: The Sex Generation By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2019 The ladies of the USS Enterprise want to get it on. Badly.
Exploits Feature Skeletons in the Closet By Sara Clemens • October 1st, 2019 “There’s always a chance to win in horror; there’s always light on the horizon, however distant. We hang in; we keep fighting.”
Feature Excerpt Ghost in the Machine By Harry Mackin • September 24th, 2019 Both the psychological thriller Personal Shopper and Breath of the Wild explore what happens when we allow technology to shape us.
Feature Excerpt Taking Control of my Sobriety By Blake Hester • September 24th, 2019 When you take addiction out of your life, you’re left with more hours in the day than you know what to do with. Luckily, there are games like Control.
Two Lives Lived – The Story of the Omm Sety By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 18th, 2019 An intriguing argument for the existence of reincarnation.
Razor Blades or Fancy Pants: The Story of The Real Peaky Blinders By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 10th, 2019 In this episode, Jen tells you the story of the real Peaky Blinders.
No Accounting for Tastes All Roads By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2019 Despite being set over a century apart, Deadwood and Breaking Bad end up in surprisingly similar places.
The McMaster Files The Rose Colored Galaxy By Jason McMaster • September 10th, 2019 There are points when playing Rebel Galaxy Outlaw that Jason loses track of, not where he is, but when he is.
The Heavy Pour Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019 GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.
The Glass Delusion: The Most Popular Madness of the Middle Ages By Robin Mazzolla and Jen Sisco • September 4th, 2019 Imagine, one day, you feel that your body is made of glass…
Ferris Wheels and a Murder Castle: The Chicago World’s Fair and H.H. Holmes By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 4th, 2019 Jen looks at the horrible history of America’s first serial killer: H. H. Holmes.
Another Look Making Lore Personal By Yussef Cole • September 4th, 2019 Yussef sees a reflection of his own relationship with games in others’ deep dives into the minutia of their mythology.
Collision Detection How an 8-Bit Football Franchise is Still Kicking By Ben Sailer • August 30th, 2019 A local competition helps Ben rediscover his love for Tecmo Super Bowl.
What To Do With All This Girldick By Autumn Wright • August 28th, 2019 “Gaming as a trans person can kinda suck. Some might say games are bad. But what if, dear readers, games are good?”
Greed and the Need to Feed – The Story of the Colorado Cannibal, Alfred Packer By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 27th, 2019 Perhaps the only thing more powerful than greed is hunger…
