A Joyous Insignificance Among the Stars By Levi Rubeck • July 18th, 2019 Will future generations know about the simple technologies we take for granted but have a high likelihood of getting lost in the oncoming floods?
Fuck-’em-Up By Davis Cox • July 15th, 2019 The latest fucking-em-up title is My Friend Pedro, a sidescrolling shooter focused on high-flying leaps and a plethora of ricocheting bullets.
The McMaster Files Putting the “U” in Trauma By Jason McMaster • July 12th, 2019 In the vein of Dwarf Fortress and Rim World, Barotrauma players make their own stories. And an uncanny number of them end in death.
Documentary Sunday Shirkers By Megan Condis • July 8th, 2019 The story behind Shirkers is one of a doomed project and a bizarre cruelty.
Gingy's Corner Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story By Gingy Gibson • June 28th, 2019 Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story is the world’s premier No Child Left Behind simulator.
Now She’ll Be All Alone: The American Horror Project Volume 2 By Orrin Grey • June 28th, 2019 Arrow is doing the lord’s work by giving such loving, hi-def releases to these kinds of underseen horror films.
Running the Void Beyond Bitmaps and Chiptunes By Levi Rubeck • June 20th, 2019 Benjamin Soulé’s Voidrun expertly navigates limitation, inspiration, and curse-sputtering difficulty.
Byte Driver Review By Rob Rich • June 14th, 2019 Byte Driver is a sort of nostalgic, sort of straightforward, and more than sort of extreme multitasking challenge.
A Review of Pluto TV Commercials By Amanda Hudgins • June 10th, 2019 Trapped in a world of re-runs of Forensic Files and World Poker Tour, I found myself drawn to one particular thing: the commercials of Pluto TV.
Man Against Time: The Big Clock on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • June 10th, 2019 Orrin takes on The Big Clock, an unusual hybrid of noir and screwball comedy.
Gingy's Corner Tokyo Chronos: Visual Novel in Virtual Reality By Gingy Gibson • June 7th, 2019 A title that does more to sell the software it runs on then the product itself.
The World Next Door Is a Nice Enough Neighbor By Sara Clemens • June 6th, 2019 Billed as hybrid of a puzzler and a visual novel with RPG elements, The World Next Door shows a lot of promise.
Finding Worth in Space Servitude By Levi Rubeck • June 6th, 2019 Joy in this game is finding solace in purgatory, stealing time from your corporate overlords, demanding value in one’s self not because of what you produce for your British AI warden.
The Space Between Lacks Meaning in Its Metaphor By Jeremy Signor • June 5th, 2019 Metaphor can be a powerful tool to lead audiences to some sort of meaning. The Space Between seems content to just bludgeon you with it.
Humanoid Cockroaches: Terraformars on Blu-Ray By Orrin Grey • May 20th, 2019 If Takashi Miike hadn’t directed it, would we even be talking about this spectacularly silly movie?
Breakups, Dear You, and Jawbreaker By Blake Hester • May 17th, 2019 The history and legacy of Jawbreaker almost seem at odds with each other.
Documentary Sunday The Cleaners By Megan Condis • May 13th, 2019 A new kind of custodial labor is working to keep your social media feeds free from trolls, hate groups and terrorist organizations.
Us Lovely Corpses By Gingy Gibson • May 10th, 2019 Us Lovely Corpses is a wonderfully thoughtful visual novel about dealing with mental illness.
Katana ZERO Offers Only Excuses By Jeremy Signor • May 8th, 2019 For a game that channels Hotline Miami so heavily, Katana ZERO is unusually generous in granting players absolution for their eventual murder spree.
The McMaster Files When Building a Banana Republic, Morality Isn’t Exactly a Priority By Jason McMaster • May 3rd, 2019 Tropico 6 has a lot of personality, so long as you don’t mind getting your hands dirty.
Cuter Than a Cat in a Bowtie By Levi Rubeck • May 2nd, 2019 There’s more to Outerloop Games’s Falcon Age than the titular falcon.
Female Problems: The Sister Street Fighter Collection on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • April 25th, 2019 Orrin Grey steeps in the Etsuko Shihomi’s Sister Street Fighter trilogy-plus-one.
Preserving Ideas with Blaster Master Zero II By Jeremy Signor • April 24th, 2019 Bold ideas should persevere, but they need room to grow.
Boss Fight vs. KotOR By Elijah Beahm • April 23rd, 2019 Elijiah Beahm reads the latest from Boss Fight Books.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a Failure By Amanda Hudgins • April 23rd, 2019 There is no real plotting across the arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is no arc of the MCU.
Hob is So Minimalist it Disappears By Gingy Gibson • April 12th, 2019 I grow weary of minimalist and spartan storytelling, particularly when a game has so little to offer besides.
Documentary Sunday Abducted in Plain Sight By Megan Condis • April 9th, 2019 The internet’s quickness to make memes about Jan Broberg’s famous abductions (yes plural) reveals a lot about audiences’ own insecurities.
Baba Is You Rules By Jeremy Signor • April 3rd, 2019 By letting you manipulate the implicit rules of its world, Baba Is You reveals how underlying assumed rules shape how you play games.
The Sax Always Brings Me Back By Levi Rubeck • March 28th, 2019 Angel Du$t fooled the old fans by daring each to hate this laser-beam of everything they’ve ever worked towards.
No More Mercy: Karate Kid Showdown on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • March 25th, 2019 Just the story of a small town boy who moves to California and learns martial arts.
Rethinking Action with Devil May Cry 5 By Jeremy Signor • March 20th, 2019 Though very much a Devil May Cry game, 5 hints at a new future for the character action genre.
Never is that Brief Flash Resented By Levi Rubeck • March 14th, 2019 When a relationship is sent crashing, the unmoored self can be so easily thrashed upon the rocks—it’s necessary to reaffirm that sense of self, to rejoin that once-blended ego.
Her Lie I Tried to Believe By Gingy Gibson • March 1st, 2019 Her Lie I Tried to Believe is a shoddy attempt to portray the paranoia and psychopathy of toxic masculinity as something worthy of human pity.
It’s A Scary World: Audition on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • February 26th, 2019 Orrin Grey watches Audition and finds it just as horrifying as he did 20 years ago.
They Killed the Mechs so that the Pilots Might Live By Levi Rubeck • February 14th, 2019 Apex Legends is still fresh from the wrapper, but the squad communication, weapons, and range of tactical options already serve up a delectable sushi of hide-and-seek with bullets.
Gingy's Corner Event-D By Gingy Gibson • February 8th, 2019 A picture is worth a thousand words, right? So next time let them do some of the talking.
Now You’re Playing with Potential By Levi Rubeck • February 7th, 2019 As an early access cyberpunk game, 2084 currently floats on mists of possibility.
Because It’s the ‘90s: Double Dragon on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • February 6th, 2019 Orrin Grey watches the glorious mess that is 1994s Double Dragon.
