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Author: Jay Castello

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Space in Translation

By Jay Castello • October 4th, 2023

What Baldur’s Gate 3 loses in creativity by being a simulation, it gains in slapstick.

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Space in Space

By Jay Castello • August 9th, 2023

Mars First Logistics being about delivery, moving through the open world becomes something very deliberate, rather than feeling like an accident with, at best, an improvised solution.

Funeral Rites
A grayscale drawing of a female fighter standing in a windy field, hand resting on the hilt of her sword.

Making Friends with Swords in The Vorpal Almanac

By Jay Castello • July 25th, 2023

Swords, writes Levi Combs in the book’s introduction, need “to feel lived in.” And that’s exactly the focus of the 22 blades of The Vorpal Almanac, beautifully illustrated by Sally Cantirino.

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The adventurer Link standing in a hooded scarf next to a large stone well in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

All’s Well in the Kingdom

By Jay Castello • July 11th, 2023

The wells in Hyrule are incredible. I want someone to talk to me about all the wells in Hyrule, as well.

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A man in a puffy periwinkle jacket and tall yellow boots peers downwards into a rock pool in front of a pink-hued sunset.

Flooded Memories

By Jay Castello • June 8th, 2023

What traces will our current sea level rise leave in the record? Cities under the water, yes, but what myths emerge from real Atlantises?

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Moving Sitting Still

By Jay Castello • April 11th, 2023

Skipping between the individual characters’ stories requires continent-hopping, back and forth over and over across the map.

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A screenshot from the Poke?mon franchise showing a trainer standing in tall grass, backed by their team of Poke?mon.

“The Abundant Nature”

By Jay Castello • February 7th, 2023

The only thing I remembered from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s advertisement cycle was the shot where they cut to a deeply bland outdoor scene overlaid with the phrase in question.

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A screenshot from Slime Rancher 2 shows several colorful and smiling slimes waiting to be harvested.

Plorts Are Poop

By Jay Castello • December 14th, 2022

Make no mistake.

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An image of Stonehenge looking majestic as the sun sets behind it, perfectly aligning between two stones.

Contested Landscapes

By Jay Castello • November 8th, 2022

Horror is perhaps the genre where contested space is most easily found lurking.

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