Feature Excerpt Still Fallen: The Delicious, Open World Mystique of Fallen London By Khee Hoon Chan • June 5th, 2020 Failbetter Games’ impeccable prose has kept this browser game alive for a decade now.
Feature Excerpt Everyone’s Already in Jail: Astral Chain, Freedom Wars, and Social Control By Don Everhart • June 5th, 2020 While the main characters in one game are police and in the other they are prisoners, there isn’t much difference in the rhythms of their lives.
Feature Excerpt Sticks and Stones Might Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me By Autumn Wright • May 4th, 2020 Marvel’s New Warriors series is an attempt to land the most expensive “how ya doing fellow kids” meme in the history of late capitalism.
Feature Excerpt In the Suburbs I: Stardew Valley and Arcade Fire By Alyssa Hatmaker • May 4th, 2020 No matter what artists might be trying to convey in their music, we inevitably tailor their message to fit ourselves.
Feature Excerpt Expanding Worlds with Video Game Tabletop RPGs By Scott Roepel • April 2nd, 2020 Unlike in roleplaying videogames, for tabletop roleplaying, all you need is an imagination, a good storyteller and a set of dice.
Feature Excerpt Carrington’s Dreamscape By Daniel Lipscombe • April 2nd, 2020 Videogames, especially those of the horror variety, could seriously stand to take a leaf from surrealism’s book.
Feature Excerpt Accepting Death as the Sun Goes Out By Ryan Cooper • April 2nd, 2020 The Outer Wilds’ tragic time-loop helps Ryan Cooper process real-world struggles.