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Casting Deep Meteo
a screenshot from everspace 2

The Lust of Early Access: Everspace 2 and 30XX

By Levi Rubeck • February 11th, 2021

Everspace 2 fulfills a similar desire to expand upon the past, in this case, more Star Fox vibrations.

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El Hijo, the Solid Snake of Tag

By Levi Rubeck • February 4th, 2021

In stealth games, I always aspire to be the ghost.

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A sepia toned train.

Red Dead Redemption Precedes the Territory

By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2020

The many flavors of The West (of the United States, specifically) are boiled down to a single salty broth for cinematic consumption.

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The cover for Jeremy Enigk's alsbum Ghosts, which shows a series of uneven white lines.

Searing and Soaring with Jeremy Enigk

By Levi Rubeck • December 2nd, 2020

Ghosts captures an experienced sense of hope that blooms straight off of How It Feels.

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“To Steady the Box”

By Levi Rubeck • October 22nd, 2020

We are meant to consider that this ability to compress their feelings into a box and hoist it themselves until their arms go numb is a kind of strength.

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To Thresh New Hay From Those 8-Bit Days

By Levi Rubeck • September 24th, 2020

“Nostalgia’s a helluva drug, one that I’m not regularly predisposed towards.”

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No Home for Petals

By Levi Rubeck • August 6th, 2020

“Given the trajectory we’re on, perhaps it’s too soon for 2020 comeback stories. And yet I’m charged by the germination of long-term plans of cosmic revival, hopefully to flower as soon as possible.”

Truth Cult’s Sermon of Swagger

By Levi Rubeck • June 18th, 2020

If the first song from Off Fire doesn’t sway you, well, there ain’t much else to bring you aboard. But for those open to receive their chained melodies and swirling dialogues, Truth Cult stands and delivers.

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Final Fantasy VI’s Nightmares in the Round

By Levi Rubeck • June 4th, 2020

Sometimes the best stories are the ones that sneak up on you.

There is no Why, Only Escape

By Levi Rubeck • May 14th, 2020

GTFO is a brutal, unforgiving, and niche experience.

1983 and the Future of Videogame Writing

By Levi Rubeck • May 7th, 2020

Levi turns back the clock on videogame crit.

Pox Free at PAX East, Part 3

By Levi Rubeck • April 14th, 2020

While playing the Netrunner tourney at PAX Unplugged, the most frequent topic of my eavesdropping was Crokinole.

Gliding by the Light of The Red Lantern

By Levi Rubeck • March 26th, 2020

This upcoming rogue-lite adventure novel has been two years in development, a bit before the annual Alaska race crashed through puppy Twitter, but happy to ride some of those waves nonetheless.

Pox Free at PAX East 2020, Part 2

By Levi Rubeck • March 19th, 2020

Levi serves up two more from PAX East.

Pox Free at PAX East 2020, Part 1

By Levi Rubeck • March 12th, 2020

Three mini essays for the price of one!

Afternoon Cable Justice

By Levi Rubeck • March 4th, 2020

Regardless of what’s kept a card-based metaphor of practicing law from hitting kitchen tables across the globe in the past, Rock Manor games are toiling under green lampshades to fill in the gaps, by preparing their upcoming modular card game Lawyer Up for Kickstarter.

I Believe that My Scoring Potential Has Been Maximized

By Levi Rubeck • February 20th, 2020

The game is called No Return because the one thing you must always remember is that there is no returning any pieces to the bag.

Coaxing Out Creative Confessions

By Levi Rubeck • February 13th, 2020

Hardcore is living, breathing music and this is a producer who understands that perfection is often the antidote to the swirling energy that swarms around good art.

Hate the Empire, Love the Game

By Levi Rubeck • January 28th, 2020

We were blown away by not only how easy It’s a Wonderful World was to pick up and learn, but by how much fun it was despite the lack of any deep interpersonal activity.

NISEI is Building a Beanstalk by the Brick

By Levi Rubeck • January 21st, 2020

NETRUNNER Lives

Lo, the X-Men are Reborn

By Levi Rubeck • January 16th, 2020

Jonathan Hickman has given the X-Men new life, but how long will it last?

Hungry for Fresh Chavez Every Day

By Levi Rubeck • December 19th, 2019

Cockfighters isn’t enough. I’m hungry for fresh Chavez every day.

Brain Burpies with Obelisk Overthrow

By Levi Rubeck • November 7th, 2019

The elegance of Obelisk Overthrow inspires me to think harder, as if clenching my jaw was what keeps me from conceptualizing a plan and executing it.

The Ancestors of the Children of Morta

By Levi Rubeck • October 17th, 2019

Families that fight together…fight together in fairly unsurprising ways.

Clacking Out a Few Kind Words

By Levi Rubeck • October 10th, 2019

Levi plays Kind Words, a game about comforting and being comforted.

Cribbage With Grandpa and Dad

By Levi Rubeck • September 26th, 2019

Levi plays Cribbage With Grandpas, a game that conjures surprising memories of his ailing father.

A woman, her face cut in half with another image superimposed on top. This is the album art for Gift of Suffering.

Portrayal of Guilt and the Gift of Concision

By Levi Rubeck • September 12th, 2019

Portrayal of Guilt wants to understand the nature of this grief, to luxuriate in totality of experience, which requires a balance—dissonant plucked chords and surgically precise blast beats.

The Blackout Club and the Perils of Being Seen

By Levi Rubeck • August 29th, 2019

Levi checks out Blackout Club and delights in the frights of being seen.

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.”

Does die Hoffnung Get Played at Emo Nights

By Levi Rubeck • August 1st, 2019

Love Songs, by die Hoffnung, inspires Levi Rubeck to poetry.

Craig Finn’s Love for Scoundrels

By Levi Rubeck • July 26th, 2019

I Need a New War makes its way with people that are difficult and neigh impossible to love, but demands that we do so anyways with a kind of firm tenderness.

a text screen that reads "What is happening when this moon disappears? Is it moving to another location?"

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?

Freedom is the Lance

By Levi Rubeck • July 12th, 2019

I dream of the actual sense of commanding space and time through piloting a vehicle

When the World was Ready, Jawbox Returned

By Levi Rubeck • June 27th, 2019

Intricate while free of self-indulgence, threaded with pop structures but heated up and twisted into gnarly, liminal forms, Jawbox was music that forced you to pay attention.

voidrun image with a pixelated purple spaceship and laser beam

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.

Ferocious Spells, Winding Sigils

By Levi Rubeck • June 13th, 2019

Building off similar grunge and noise-rock vibes as Made Out of Babies, Elizabeth Colour Wheel builds out from that frame.

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.

Five More From PAX East 2019

By Levi Rubeck • May 23rd, 2019

Cutting through my notes of PAX East 2019 (and earlier, gulp) to drop a few thoughts on small, punchy games coming forth hopefully soon.

A small red figure stands in a shop like place with a large multiple eyed purple creature.

Chasing Pinballs Through the Earth

By Levi Rubeck • May 16th, 2019

Creature in the Well is a sly title that purports that everything’s all been laid out.

The Beatdown is Coming Back

By Levi Rubeck • May 9th, 2019

Streets of Rage 4 is as much a mixtape rhythm game as it was a brawl simulator.

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