Feature Excerpt Your Choices Matter: The Real Power Fantasy By Ruth Cassidy • August 28th, 2020 An interview with the co-narrative leads on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire about subverting that power fantasy of the Chosen One.
Feature Excerpt Two Hands Off the Wheel: Learning to Embrace the Chaos of Zweihander By R. M. Jansen-Parkes • October 24th, 2019 Most tabletop RPGs boil down to a roll of the dice.
Feature Excerpt Grim, Perilous and Inclusive By Adam Brown • October 24th, 2019 Zweihander: Grim & Perilous is a fresh take on dark fantasy and tabletop RPGs.
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.
Improving Your Headspace with Blades By Levi Rubeck • February 22nd, 2019 It is nice to be someone else for a while, even if that somebody is a scoundrel.
Collision Detection Whether its NFL or RPG, A Party Trumps Its Players By Ben Sailer • August 30th, 2018 How communities and players lose sight of the people behind their beloved teams.
Belonging Outside of Belonging: Avery Alder’s Dream Askew By Sam Desatoff • June 7th, 2018 For Alder, Dream Askew is the product of years of hard work and iteration. As her vision finally nears release, she hopes that she can inspire marginalized communities to tell their stories in their own unique ways.
The Board Soul Let’s Get Physical By Jeremy Signor • May 24th, 2018 Catacombs may be a game about flicking discs, but it brings the action of dungeon crawling to life in surprising, intuitive ways.
E -soterica Rythm is Lava By Alyse Stanley • April 25th, 2018 Egor Dorichev’s entry Rythm is Lava (typo intentional) stitches together RPG, puzzle, platformer, and rhythm game elements Frankenstein style into an experience as elegant as it is frustratingly complex.
A Visitor’s Guide to Sigil By Sam Desatoff • July 20th, 2017 Hello, and welcome to scenic Sigil, the Crossroads of the Multiverse™. Thank you for visiting our tourist center where we are glad to assist with any questions you might have about the city.
Mindset Matters: How I Came To Love Pillars Of Eternity By Matt Sayer • April 4th, 2017 Pillars of Eternity is a good reminder that the experience we want out of a game affects the experience we get out of it.
The Politics of Ascension By Sam Desatoff • January 19th, 2017 Sam Desatoff is heir to an uneasy throne in his Expeditions: Viking beta review.
Nioh’s Alpha Demo: Not Just Another Souls-Like By Guest Post • May 4th, 2016 Nioh brings a lot to the table that not all titles in the genre can claim. It pushes the Souls-like genre to the limit.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Cousland? By Mark Filipowich • July 23rd, 2013 Mark Filipowich feels that privileged people have as much to gain from experiencing underrepresented videogame perspectives as anyone.
