Shadows of Worlds Unto Themselves By Jonathan Fenn • December 3rd, 2024 A big limitation of videogame ecosystems is their strong focus on predation and conflict.
Exploits Feature A Garfield Christmas By Sara Clemens • December 2nd, 2024 A Garfield Christmas had an honored place on my 1980’s VHS compilation of Christmas specials. Why? One word: Grandma.
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.
Exploits Feature Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire By Noah Springer • December 2nd, 2024 Selene Shade, a steely, blue-eyed resurrectionist, spends her days raising the dead and her nights alone…
Top Secret: New World Order By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 2nd, 2024 Hone that tradecraft, or you’ll find out what they do to spies around here…
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.
I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024 How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?
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.
The Secret Ingredient is Love By Jimmy Hollenbeck • November 25th, 2024 It isn’t just about filling her body and soul, it’s a declaration of love. How could she say no to that?
