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.
Feature Excerpt What Does It Take to Appreciate Turbo Kid (2024)? By Jay Weaver • May 27th, 2025 All art ought to be celebrated, and the Wasteland welcomes all.
Feature Excerpt AI in Fanfiction By Amanda Hudgins • April 28th, 2025 I have never willingly read an AI “fanwork” because I do not read things that no one has written.
Feature Excerpt Spritfarer and the Labor of Grief By Laurie McRae Andrew • March 27th, 2025 Judith Butler helps us see how Spiritfarer’s gameplay mechanics connect labor with the politics of grief.
Feature Excerpt Terminally Online: Splatter and an Era of Cyberdeath By Roxy S. • January 28th, 2025 Let’s not mince words; the digital world we’ve built is a waking nightmare.
Feature Excerpt Johnny Quest for Grown Ups By Elijah Beahm • January 3rd, 2025 Shutter is, was, and always will be about how the story ends – and why that’s beautiful.
Feature Excerpt Believe Me, I Haven’t Got a Choice: Max Rockatansky’s Bisexual Apocalypse By Maddi Chilton • November 26th, 2024 We return to Max Rockatansky, who wanders in and out of traditional pasts and transgressive futures, part of both but choosing neither.
Feature Excerpt A Journey Through the Upside Down By Phillip Russell • October 24th, 2024 Lucas’s reality, much like my own, is flattened when we fail to acknowledge his varied experiences from the rest of the boys.
Feature Excerpt Was Colonial Marines Really Nuked From The Start? By Elijah Beahm • September 26th, 2024 “We loved our isolation. Thrived in it. It allowed us to get lost in our work with zero dependencies.”
Feature Excerpt Baroque Pathology: Monkeys Shampooing While I Slowly Die and Play Final Fantasy VIII By Luis Aguasvivas • September 25th, 2024 In a desperate attempt to conjure halcyon days I played Final Fantasy VIII. I played the game during a horrible time in my life.
