Feature Excerpt Children of the Night By Alma Roda-Gil • January 20th, 2022 Vampires, blood libel and Midnight Mass.
Exploits Feature The Radium Age By Noah Springer • January 10th, 2022 Science fiction from the early 20th century is often neglected. The Radium Age series seeks to fix that.
Exploits Feature D(E)fiant Love By Melissa King • January 3rd, 2022 The world may be fucked, but we have each other.
Revving the Engine Surviving the Near Future in Phobos Subhuman By Ben Sailer • December 27th, 2021 There can be something especially empowering about feeling as though you can shape and survive whatever is around the next corner.
Feature Story The Unbearable Lightness of Deathloop By David Shimomura • December 23rd, 2021 In the moment it is easy to love Deathloop but, upon reflection, it feels as though it was barely even there.
Feature Excerpt The Sixties That Weren’t, or, How Psychonauts 2 Forgets Politics By Christian Haines • December 22nd, 2021 Double Fine’s videogame Psychonauts 2 draws on the experimental energies of the 1960s only to mute that decade’s political fervor.
Feature Excerpt This Is My Favorite Shop in the Citadel By Emma Kostopolus • December 20th, 2021 The ethics of Mass Effect roleplay.
Revving the Engine Mods & Mythology By Melissa King • November 24th, 2021 The Australian Writers’ Guild Award-winning and critically acclaimed The Forgotten City had humble beginnings as a Skyrim mod.
Feature Excerpt Roleplaying Freedom: Joel Rosenberg and White Fantasies of Oppression By Noah Berlatsky • November 23rd, 2021 Rosenberg’s depiction of liberation is less about those liberated and more about the moral awakening of the white liberator.