Feature Excerpt A Friend at the End of the World By Adam Goodall • October 20th, 2020 But what space do you and your camera occupy in this city? You’re far from an observer, an outside eye; rather, Faulkner positions the player as a site of tension in this world falling apart.
Feature Excerpt Death is Not the End By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020 The inhabitants of the Dark Souls universe seek a hero to rekindle the first flame, for without it, they believe, all life will cease. But they are wrong.
Feature Excerpt Watching Myself Die By Phillip Russell • September 22nd, 2020 On Blackness in The Last of Us
Feature Excerpt Four Brief Discussions of Cultist Simulator and Planescape: Torment By Violet Adele Bloch • September 22nd, 2020 A sketch.
Feature Excerpt Talkin’ ‘Bout Bugsnax By Melissa King • August 28th, 2020 A look at how Kero Kero Bonito came up with gaming’s happiest bop of the summer.
Feature Excerpt The Relatable Dystopia By Mark Hill • August 28th, 2020 Mirror’s Edge is one of the few franchises to acknowledge that every dystopia is someone’s utopia.
Feature Excerpt Your Choices Matter: The Real Power Fantasy By Ruth Cassidy • August 28th, 2020 An interview with the co-narrative leads on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire about subverting that power fantasy of the Chosen One.
Feature Excerpt Maternal Legacies By Emma Kostopolus • July 30th, 2020 Death Stranding doesn’t erase motherhood: it is, in several important ways, defined by it.
Feature Excerpt Being Alone By Alma Roda-Gil • July 30th, 2020 When talking about the problems with Firewatch’s ending, general consensus is that it invalidates the events of the game – but that’s looking at it backward.
Feature Excerpt Digital Phantasmagoria By Phantom • July 6th, 2020 On the art of DataErase – glitch witch, anime porn historian and DIP switch devil.
