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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.

Backlog

On Silence

By Gavin Craig • November 8th, 2019

Words are hard.

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.

How to Use Laminate Flooring for Bathrooms to Transform Your Space

By Alan Smithee • November 5th, 2019

Your bathroom is often a space which you don’t give much thought to.

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.

Background Checking to Go Through Life

By Alan Smithee • October 24th, 2019

There are quite a few things a background check can come up with depending on the purpose of it.

Surviving in the social media jungle

By Alan Smithee • October 23rd, 2019

If the latest marketing statistics are to be believed, there are now almost 3.5 billion social media users in the world.

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…

Feature Excerpt

The Year Videogames Blew Up Shanghai

By Mark Hill • August 26th, 2019

Unlike most first-person shooters, these two titles make you think about the very real city destroyed in the wake of your protagonist’s outsider crusades.

Feature Excerpt

I Wanna Be Your Dog

By Jeremy Signor • August 22nd, 2019

That awkward moment when giving up your free will to a supercomputer-powered hive mind brings out your inner sub.

Musk Comes From the Butt – The History of Perfume

By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 20th, 2019

People stink. And through out history, they’ve done some weird things to cover it up.

A screen showing the word smash and a cut out character

A Love Letter to Bit Bash

By Amanda Hudgins • August 19th, 2019

I didn’t have an idea except I wanted to smash guitars on stage, and I knew that if I was ever going to do this, it would have to be Bit Bash. I thought they would say no.

The Last Softball Player

By Levi Rubeck • August 15th, 2019

“When he suggested we attend a baseball game, I wasn’t shy in my disinterest. We lost touch immediately after that.”

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