Past Presence Dragon Age is Forever By Emily Price • December 4th, 2024 If one of the biggest criticisms of Inquisition is that it overstays its welcome, then one of its best qualities is that it lets you live inside the dream for as long as you want.
Noise Complaint How The Get Up Kids and an Xbox Demo Disc Changed My Life By Ben Sailer • December 3rd, 2024 One afternoon when I had nothing else to do, I popped in a sampler of the snowboarding game Amped, and discovered a couple tracks from The Get Up Kids.
Funeral Rites Daily Commute: An Examination of Arkos and The Forest Primordia By Emma Kostopolus • November 27th, 2024 John Kordosh wants his players to focus on the events unfolding around them, rather than counting metrics for meta-game functionality.
Feature Excerpt Believe Me, I Haven’t Got a Choice: Max Rockatansky’s Bisexual Apocalypse By Maddi Chilton • November 26th, 2024 We return to Max Rockatansky, who wanders in and out of traditional pasts and transgressive futures, part of both but choosing neither.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2024 By David Shimomura • November 21st, 2024 The nights sure are getting longer, huh! Have a magazine!
Here's the Thing The New Maniac Mansion By Rob Rich • November 20th, 2024 Lucasfilm Games’ classic adventure hasn’t gotten a remake or a remaster, but there’s one game in particular that sure feels like it’s carrying that torch (and running with it).
Forms in Light Suburbia Under Siege By Justin Reeve • November 20th, 2024 The idea of the homefront being invaded no longer feels like a distant fantasy these days.
Noah's Beat Box A Nightmare on Valleyfield Drive By Noah Springer • November 19th, 2024 We bought our “dream” home. A three-bed, one-bath mid-century ramble in the St. Louis suburb, Glennmeadow. But then everything changed.
Casting Deep Meteo Here are the Woods By Levi Rubeck • November 15th, 2024 It’s the liminal woods between cities and suburbs, suburbs and exurbs, farmhouses and fields that yield the highest chance of finding porn.
Totally Generic Losing Christina By Natasha Ochshorn • November 14th, 2024 The Fog is a novel about gaslighting, although that term is never used.
