Kings of the Cable: The British Chess Association Festival of 1872 By Levi Rubeck • May 3rd, 2022 With more players gaining proficiency with pawns and rooks and bishops by the day, a hunger has emerged – the people cry out for more games, more analysis and more rivalry!
Exploits Feature Almost Ready to Face the Present By Levi Rubeck • May 2nd, 2022 Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence has reminded us that we are more resilient than we often believe ourselves to be.
Revving the Engine Beyond the Backdrop By Levi Rubeck • April 20th, 2022 The digital scene maker RPGScenery helps pen and paper RPG game masters visualize their stories while making combat scenes more immersive and manageable.
Casting Deep Meteo No Free Will on the Range By Levi Rubeck • April 6th, 2022 Red Dead Redemption 2 is not a buffet but a meal of many courses, each slicing away a little more denial from the last, to keep the saliva flowing.
Casting Deep Meteo Impossible Decisions: The Game By Levi Rubeck • March 8th, 2022 As I am not interested in a Mothership experience completely devoid of hope, I presume my players aren’t either. But this isn’t a stroll down candy corn avenue.
Casting Deep Meteo An Introduction By Levi Rubeck • February 9th, 2022 A word of explanation on the particular alchemy of interests that fascinate and beguile our newest magazine columnist.
Casting Deep Meteo The Soothing Tundra By Levi Rubeck • November 16th, 2021 Even when we weren’t sure if we could go outside despite the pandemic, Caroline could scale mountains and map her surroundings as a way to regain a simulacrum of life outside the apartment.
Casting Deep Meteo Swaying from Seed to Stalk with The Body and BIG|BRAVE By Levi Rubeck • October 12th, 2021 Coming together, The Body and BIG|BRAVE tear down their own houses to build back from their shared beams.
Casting Deep Meteo American Truck Simulator: Wyoming in Miniature By Levi Rubeck • September 28th, 2021 I’m in this convoy for the vistas, the big hauls, the roadside magic, even if it must refrain from truly mimicking the vastness of the time spent cruising those roads in real life.
Casting Deep Meteo Greak and the Deft Power of Short Stories By Levi Rubeck • September 21st, 2021 Greak doesn’t overstay its welcome, and is clearsighted in its goals from the beginning.
Casting Deep Meteo The Mental Umami of Risk and Reward By Levi Rubeck • September 14th, 2021 Though Below has killed me almost as often as Caves of Qud, each defeat similarly instructs enough to encourage another descent.
Casting Deep Meteo The Play About the Scottish Hitman By Levi Rubeck • May 11th, 2021 Hitman (2016) is a game that conjures this spirit of the theater and allows me to flow through that liminal space of being directed while remaining free to wander the stage at my whim.
’68 Releases a Menu Worthy of the Meal By Levi Rubeck • April 13th, 2021 This wasn’t a boast but a call-to-arms, and there are many who took on the charge.
portrayal of guilt’s Anthems Against False Hope By Levi Rubeck • April 5th, 2021 Anthems for sinking ships, as if the tide itself was a choleric spirit drawing you down to a lightless ocean floor.
Casting Deep Meteo The Lust of Early Access: Everspace 2 and 30XX By Levi Rubeck • February 11th, 2021 Everspace 2 fulfills a similar desire to expand upon the past, in this case, more Star Fox vibrations.
Casting Deep Meteo El Hijo, the Solid Snake of Tag By Levi Rubeck • February 4th, 2021 In stealth games, I always aspire to be the ghost.
Casting Deep Meteo Red Dead Redemption Precedes the Territory By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2020 The many flavors of The West (of the United States, specifically) are boiled down to a single salty broth for cinematic consumption.
Casting Deep Meteo Searing and Soaring with Jeremy Enigk By Levi Rubeck • December 2nd, 2020 Ghosts captures an experienced sense of hope that blooms straight off of How It Feels.
Casting Deep Meteo “To Steady the Box” By Levi Rubeck • October 22nd, 2020 We are meant to consider that this ability to compress their feelings into a box and hoist it themselves until their arms go numb is a kind of strength.
Casting Deep Meteo To Thresh New Hay From Those 8-Bit Days By Levi Rubeck • September 24th, 2020 “Nostalgia’s a helluva drug, one that I’m not regularly predisposed towards.”
Casting Deep Meteo No Home for Petals By Levi Rubeck • August 6th, 2020 “Given the trajectory we’re on, perhaps it’s too soon for 2020 comeback stories. And yet I’m charged by the germination of long-term plans of cosmic revival, hopefully to flower as soon as possible.”
Truth Cult’s Sermon of Swagger By Levi Rubeck • June 18th, 2020 If the first song from Off Fire doesn’t sway you, well, there ain’t much else to bring you aboard. But for those open to receive their chained melodies and swirling dialogues, Truth Cult stands and delivers.
Casting Deep Meteo Final Fantasy VI’s Nightmares in the Round By Levi Rubeck • June 4th, 2020 Sometimes the best stories are the ones that sneak up on you.
There is no Why, Only Escape By Levi Rubeck • May 14th, 2020 GTFO is a brutal, unforgiving, and niche experience.
1983 and the Future of Videogame Writing By Levi Rubeck • May 7th, 2020 Levi turns back the clock on videogame crit.
Pox Free at PAX East, Part 3 By Levi Rubeck • April 14th, 2020 While playing the Netrunner tourney at PAX Unplugged, the most frequent topic of my eavesdropping was Crokinole.
Gliding by the Light of The Red Lantern By Levi Rubeck • March 26th, 2020 This upcoming rogue-lite adventure novel has been two years in development, a bit before the annual Alaska race crashed through puppy Twitter, but happy to ride some of those waves nonetheless.
Pox Free at PAX East 2020, Part 2 By Levi Rubeck • March 19th, 2020 Levi serves up two more from PAX East.
Pox Free at PAX East 2020, Part 1 By Levi Rubeck • March 12th, 2020 Three mini essays for the price of one!
Afternoon Cable Justice By Levi Rubeck • March 4th, 2020 Regardless of what’s kept a card-based metaphor of practicing law from hitting kitchen tables across the globe in the past, Rock Manor games are toiling under green lampshades to fill in the gaps, by preparing their upcoming modular card game Lawyer Up for Kickstarter.
I Believe that My Scoring Potential Has Been Maximized By Levi Rubeck • February 20th, 2020 The game is called No Return because the one thing you must always remember is that there is no returning any pieces to the bag.
Coaxing Out Creative Confessions By Levi Rubeck • February 13th, 2020 Hardcore is living, breathing music and this is a producer who understands that perfection is often the antidote to the swirling energy that swarms around good art.
Hate the Empire, Love the Game By Levi Rubeck • January 28th, 2020 We were blown away by not only how easy It’s a Wonderful World was to pick up and learn, but by how much fun it was despite the lack of any deep interpersonal activity.
Lo, the X-Men are Reborn By Levi Rubeck • January 16th, 2020 Jonathan Hickman has given the X-Men new life, but how long will it last?
Hungry for Fresh Chavez Every Day By Levi Rubeck • December 19th, 2019 Cockfighters isn’t enough. I’m hungry for fresh Chavez every day.
Brain Burpies with Obelisk Overthrow By Levi Rubeck • November 7th, 2019 The elegance of Obelisk Overthrow inspires me to think harder, as if clenching my jaw was what keeps me from conceptualizing a plan and executing it.
The Ancestors of the Children of Morta By Levi Rubeck • October 17th, 2019 Families that fight together…fight together in fairly unsurprising ways.
Clacking Out a Few Kind Words By Levi Rubeck • October 10th, 2019 Levi plays Kind Words, a game about comforting and being comforted.
