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Forms in Light
A screencap from Tears of the Kingdom shows a snowy landscape with rolling hills leading to tall mountains in the distance.

Cartography of the Cold

By Justin Reeve • January 19th, 2026

Pack warm because Tabantha Tundra in particular is hostile to outsiders, and even most newcomers.

Talkin’ About Stuff

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 19th, 2026

Catchin’ up on some TV and movies.

Noah's Beat Box
Gandalf approaches the hilly Shire in a rickety horse-drawn wagon.

One Dream to Rule Them All

By Noah Springer • January 16th, 2026

My eyes glaze over and again, my dreams dance on gilded waves, gliding towards Rivendell.

Casting Deep Meteo
A screenshot from the RPG Sea of Stars shows three characters standing on a rocky cliff edge, overlooking a vast, misty landscape of floating rock formations and water.

Sea of Stars, Pond of Bulbs

By Levi Rubeck • January 15th, 2026

Are we learning our lines to embody a part, or are we bending the world to our whims?

Totally Generic
Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett lean in for a kiss in a scene from Black Bag.

Best of 2025

By Natasha Ochshorn • January 14th, 2026

The most sustained joy I got this year was mainlining old seasons of Top Chef while I packed and moved and unpacked apartments.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth has a group of people, including a detective gathered together in a ransacked office.

Nooks and Crannies

By Jay Castello • January 13th, 2026

Ace Attorney Investigations’ spaces feel like spaces made for people. Everybody’s here trying to work out what happened, and you’re just one part of that puzzle.

Rookie of the Year
A screenshot from Shining in the Darkness shows a blobby snail-like monster in a small dungeon room.

How Did We Ever Beat Videogames Before the Internet?

By Matt Marrone • January 12th, 2026

When I was a kid, we didn’t have online resources to beat bewildering RPGs – but beat them we did.

Dark Tower

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 12th, 2026

Can you defeat the tower before the tower defeats you?

Interlinked
A screenshot from the videogame Silent Hill: Homecoming, featuring the main protagonist, Alex Shepherd, with his mother, Lillian Shepherd.

Fragile Traditions

By Phoenix Simms • January 9th, 2026

Porcelain as a material metaphor is a way to emphasize not just legacy, but the hands-on and time-consuming craft that creates objects of precious worth.

Don't Stop Believing
A still from the movie The Royal Hotel shows main characters Hanna and Liv standing in front of a retro car in a parking lot. Hanna stares somewhere past the viewer while Liv is turned away, gazing in another direction.

How Art Helped Me in 2025

By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026

We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.

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