Noise Complaint Learning the Hard Way With Lucero By Ben Sailer • July 6th, 2023 Lucero’s music has always had two speeds: “I’m going to party hard” and “I shouldn’t have partied that hard.”
Noise Complaint Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023 Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.
Screening Calls with GAMETHING’s David Wolinsky and Pippin Barr By Ben Sailer • May 5th, 2023 “I think that’s the joy of what we’re doing, it’s like a crock pot for ideas about games that otherwise you would just totally zoom past if you have to be like, ‘Here’s my here’s my final judgment.'”
Noise Complaint Calling In a Noise Complaint By Ben Sailer • April 26th, 2023 After four and a half years of writing the Collision Detection column, Ben starts something new by going back to something old.
Collision Detection Light the Beam By Ben Sailer • April 5th, 2023 As a lapsed and reformed Sacramento Kings fan, Ben learns that sometimes backing a loser is the winningest thing you can do.
Collision Detection Learning to Love Roguelikes with Deathloop By Ben Sailer • March 7th, 2023 Ben plays Deathloop and finally gets roguelikes, showing that sometimes all it takes for a genre to click is a change of context and perspective.
Collision Detection In the Spaceship Over Glasgow With Mogwai By Ben Sailer • January 4th, 2023 Mogwai are often pigeonholed as the elder statesmen of post-rock. The real story about their roots and influences is much more interesting.
Revving the Engine How Dracma Studios is Lighting Its Own Path With Candle Knight By Ben Sailer • December 22nd, 2022 Mexico-based Dracma Studios is creating more than just an intriguing platformer with Candle Knight. They’re lighting a path forward for themselves (and developers across Latin America).
Collision Detection Better Living, Better Writing By Ben Sailer • December 7th, 2022 Bad Writer shows how becoming a more interesting writer starts with living a more interesting life and there’s nothing interesting about joyless overwork.
Collision Detection The Boomer Death Cult of Possum Springs By Ben Sailer • November 2nd, 2022 As the Boomer death cult in Night In The Woods serves to remind us, sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones that could actually exist.
