Feature Excerpt Grad School is the Scariest Part: On Re-Animator By Alexander B. Joy • January 26th, 2026 Re-Animator’s gory packaging and squeamish set pieces mask a trenchant – and accurate – sendup of all the reasons why graduate school is a toxic mess.
Feature Excerpt Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Heart and Soul of Lack of Love By James Tocchio • November 25th, 2025 Peace and environmentalism in a Dreamcast-exclusive evolutionary life-sim.
Feature Excerpt Grave Goods: Sepulchre and the Game as Object By Orrin Grey • October 24th, 2025 There is the hobby of playing board games, and then there is the entirely separate hobby of buying board games.
Feature Excerpt The Butterfly Affect By Dayten Rose • September 26th, 2025 Themes that preoccupy the makers of games are magnetic to the image of the butterfly: spectacle, attention, illusion, mortality, autonomy.
Feature Excerpt A Godzilla for All Seasons By Orrin Grey • August 28th, 2025 Pretty much everyone has a favorite Godzilla movie, they’re more than happy to tell you which one it is, and it could be absolutely any one of them.
Feature Excerpt Duck, Duck, Goose By Samantha Trzinski • August 26th, 2025 “All hail the goose,” we say, to which the goose simply replies, “Honk.”
Feature Excerpt Procgen Revelation By Dayten Rose • July 23rd, 2025 All detective games come with an expiration date. They are pulled into the gravity well at their center, leaving us to endlessly hunt for more.
Feature Excerpt Leave Home By Giorgio Chiappa • July 22nd, 2025 The life of the neighborhood neatly fits into the mold dictated by its container – the affluent suburban street.
Feature Excerpt Heard You Were Dead By David Shimomura • June 25th, 2025 Power pushes down on those beneath it. There’s still a war to be won.
Feature Excerpt I’m Afraid It’s Been… 10 Years: A Phantom Pain Retrospective By Ryan Wagahoff • June 24th, 2025 It’s difficult to believe from a starfucker like Hideo Kojima, but he really wants his players to be center stage.
