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Artwork from Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan shows a character waving down to the street from a second-floor window in a brick building.

The 3DS Made Dungeon Crawlers Accessible & Its Legacy Is Palpable

By Latonya Pennington • July 20th, 2023

Through the 3DS, dungeon crawlers would go from being a niche genre to something more accessible as the console matured.

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A grainy photograph of Kurt Cobain playing his guitar and singing into a mic while wearing a slip dress and rhinestone tiara.

Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time)

By Juno Stump • June 23rd, 2023

I don’t know if Kurt Cobain would still be here today if he had the ability to inject estrogen instead of heroin, but I know his journal pages carry the same pain as me.

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Medieval style artwork from the videogame Pentiment featuring a surprised rooster.

Painting the Past With a Broad Brush

By Saniya Ahmed • May 19th, 2023

Intimacy and ordinary life in art is lacking when attention goes toward religious and imperial powers. Mundane, everyday things are forgettable and not as well-preserved through time as a monument.

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A circular maze from the videogame Pentiment with artwork drawn in a Medieval style.

The Future Will Forget Us

By Ben Thorp • April 21st, 2023

Season and Pentiment on how art fails to capture our complicated present.

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A black and white photograph of a man sitting next to a typewriter.

What Video Games Did to Haunting

By Nathan Schmidt • April 20th, 2023

Where are all the haunted videogames?

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A cloaked figure holding a sword gazes across a barren landscape of red fog and blackened soil.

The Environmental Horror of Elden Ring

By Kathryn Hemmann • March 22nd, 2023

Caelid resists the post-apocalyptic fantasy that the detrimental effects of human activity on the environment are temporary and reversible.

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Hope and Sacrifice in Andor

By Kiernan Elam • March 21st, 2023

Andor paints a clear and lucid picture of the absolute power authoritarians can wield over people and how cruel fascism must be in order to preserve that power.

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A screenshot from Dirty Bomb shows a helicopter hovering low above a brick and iron suspension bridge.

Lifelong Friends are Made in Dead and Dying Games

By Brian Lee-Mounger Hendershot • February 22nd, 2023

Videogames lost something special when developers pivoted from server browsers to matchmaking. A small group of players show us what we’re missing.

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Pieces of construction plans or blueprints are scattered willy-nilly, connected to each other with several orange arrows, as if someone was trying to create some kind of map.

A Ride Through the Objective Field of Passion

By Braden Timss • February 21st, 2023

Disneyland is a place where one can fall backward from the future to the frontier days of the American westward expansion without the slightest struggle, physical or cognitive.

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Hideo Kojima Hates You

By Emma Kostopolus • January 23rd, 2023

A study in difficulty scaling.

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