Rookie of the Year Nintendo Switch 2 vs. The Dadtendo By Matt Marrone • September 12th, 2025 In the spirit of good parenting, I’ve decided to pit the two devices against each other in a few select categories.
Interlinked Co-opting Co-op By Phoenix Simms • September 11th, 2025 The narratives of care that feel the most impactful are happening in game genres that aren’t explicitly labelling themselves as being “wholesome,” “cozy,” “lo-fi” or “chill.”
Don't Stop Believing Legion Reinvents… Jesus? By Elijah Beahm • September 10th, 2025 Rudi Berden’s Legion both is and isn’t a story of the apocalypse, and weaves a ton of different Biblical stories and apocrypha together.
Here Be Monsters Dead Wives’ Society: Male Guilt and the Horror Game By Emma Kostopolus • September 9th, 2025 The important things remain the same: there is a man, there are the horrors and there is the specter of the woman he loved and lost.
Space Marine II By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 8th, 2025 A videogame? On the Vintage RPG Podcast?
Mind Palaces Money Makes Kaso-Machi Go Round By Maddi Chilton • September 5th, 2025 The most important thing to take from this is that the question of the relationship between cozy games and capitalism is 1) interesting and 2) unresolved.
Past Presence An Evening with Solitaire Mystery By Dr. Emily Price • September 4th, 2025 A Solitaire Mystery is not player-hostile, exactly, but player-neutral. Fitting, for a game about a game you play by yourself.
Run It Back 1975 By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 3rd, 2025 Even those who cling to thrones must die eventually.
Exploits Feature GTA IV’s Time Capsule By J. Barnes • September 2nd, 2025 The world of Grand Theft Auto IV is one of stasis.
Wargames West By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 1st, 2025 There’s no time machine quite like an old catalog.
