Backlog A Great Story and a Good Fluke By Gavin Craig • December 4th, 2019 The 2019 World Series is an example of what is wrong with major league baseball.
Backlog Repeating Being By Gavin Craig • August 9th, 2019 Gavin muses about repetition while he muses about repetition while he muses about….
Backlog Fire, Loss and the Works of Hands By Gavin Craig • July 1st, 2019 Notre Dame will never be the same after April’s fire. Another chapter will be written in its story as it’s rebuilt.
Episode 9 – Mass Effect By Sara Clemens, David Shimomura and Gavin Craig • June 19th, 2019 Gavin Craig joins the gang to talk about all things Mass Effect!
Backlog Almost the Only Cats I Have Ever Had By Gavin Craig • June 10th, 2019 Gavin talks about his cat. And his second cat. And his first first cat.
Backlog Nats Fans Bid Kid Fuck Off By Gavin Craig • May 4th, 2019 It’s not personal. It’s just money.
Exploits Feature Culture vs. Canon By Gavin Craig and Elijah Beahm • April 2nd, 2019 A long running discussion about culture vs. canon between Gavin Craig and Elijah Beahm culminates in a thrilling head-to-head confrontation.
Backlog Whose Apocalypse? By Gavin Craig • April 2nd, 2019 While wandering through Far Cry: New Dawn’s unplausible dystopia, Gavin Craig sees it as just one ending in a cycle as old as time.
Backlog Partial List of Reasons for Writing a List in Place of a Column By Gavin Craig • March 7th, 2019 People love lists. See: the entirety of the internet.
Backlog The Stiff Brown Cloth in Which the Knife is Kept By Gavin Craig • February 9th, 2019 Knowing a fable’s end first can change its meaning. Especially when you remember endings are things of fiction.
Exploits Feature Opening Statement By Gavin Craig • February 1st, 2019 We experimented with a different format for this issue of Exploits. Gavin Craig explains.
Backlog What Was the Question? And Why Do You Ask? By Gavin Craig • January 15th, 2019 The most complicated question in Mass Effect: do geth units have souls?
Backlog What Matters and What Matters Last By Gavin Craig • December 4th, 2018 It’s a difficult thing to write about videogames when one doesn’t play very many videogames.
Backlog Resolution State By Gavin Craig • November 9th, 2018 With most videogames having half-baked conclusions when they don’t continue on indefinitely, Gavin Craig asks: Can you even have a story without an ending?
Backlog Shut It Down By Gavin Craig • October 1st, 2018 Gavin Craig talks about how institutions are just that: institutions. And they can overstay their usefulness.
Backlog Culture is Not Canon By Gavin Craig • September 12th, 2018 Star Wars is a case study in how canon can grip a culture, and what happens when fandom turns toxic.
Feature Excerpt Never Alone Again (Digitally) By Gavin Craig and David Wolinsky • August 20th, 2018 Meditations and musings on the lack of solitary videogame experiences, and what that might mean.
Backlog Backlog: Unpacking By Gavin Craig • July 1st, 2018 Relocating to a new home can be difficult. Everything you know and love packed away into neat little boxes. Be isn’t it natural; after all, as Gavin Craig puts it, it’s where we all end up anyway.
Backlog The Adult in the Room By Gavin Craig • June 14th, 2018 Among a cast of characters who often seem like children, Thane Krios is one Mass Effect‘s few adults.
Backlog Quick Takes By Gavin Craig • May 17th, 2018 Gavin reveals a perhaps troubling obsession with mobile games in a short survey of what he’s been playing lately.
Backlog Violent Videogames are Violent By Gavin Craig • April 6th, 2018 Taking action on gun violence doesn’t require defending the too-often stupid violence in videogames.
Exploits Feature On Canon By Gavin Craig • April 2nd, 2018 If we must have canons, let’s build our own and blow them up every now and then.
Backlog The Sense of an Ending By Gavin Craig • February 8th, 2018 Life goes on. Our stories don’t have to.
Backlog To Hell With 2017, Bring On 2018 By Gavin Craig • December 28th, 2017 Gavin has a dozen or so wishes for the new year. Or more.
Backlog Looking at Mario By Gavin Craig • November 20th, 2017 Mario has always been, and will always be, an empty shell.
Backlog 20 Theses on Batman By Gavin Craig • October 4th, 2017 Who is the greatest villain in Gotham City?
Backlog Damnation & Dominion By Gavin Craig • August 30th, 2017 “As long as dominion continues to drive our sense of justice, as long as we treat certain beings as disposable, we will all continue to burn.”
Backlog Jack in Purgatory By Gavin Craig • June 30th, 2017 No matter how many fall to Samurai Jack’s blade, his robes always stay clean and white.
Backlog A Strange Hill to Die On By Gavin Craig • June 8th, 2017 Gavin cheats on his backlog to play a newly released game: What Remains of Edith Finch.
Backlog Consumption and Ruin By Gavin Craig • May 2nd, 2017 Gavin is torn between the lighthearted simplicity of Lego Harry Potter and the quiet contemplation of Proteus and Elegy for a Dead World.
Backlog Intimacy & Interpretation By Gavin Craig • April 4th, 2017 Gavin begins and ends The Beginner’s Guide.
Backlog The Ground on Which our Stories are Contested By Gavin Craig • February 22nd, 2017 Final Fantasy VI “is not an allegory for the current moment. It is not a blueprint for resistance. It is just a story, but a story is a place to begin.”
Backlog Neither Here Nor There By Gavin Craig • February 10th, 2017 Gavin Craig dials the time machine to 1994. His destination? Final Fantasy VI.
Backlog Falling Happily Behind By Gavin Craig • December 29th, 2016 A backlog of games doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Backlog The Fear in a Handful of Dust By Gavin Craig • November 1st, 2016 “My fears are mundane things. I grew out of ghosts and monsters long ago…”