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.
Feature Excerpt Rebels Without a Cause By Gerry Hart • November 19th, 2021 Watchdogs: Legion could have been a powerful or at least insightful piece of cultural commentary. It’s more like the Kylie Jenner Pepsi advert.
Exploits Feature Star Trek: Lower Decks By Van Dennis • November 1st, 2021 Just like we did in the 90s between Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, we’re once again arguing over which of the three currently airing Star Trek shows is the best.
Revving the Engine Connecting with Tetrominoes By Diego Nicolás Argüello • October 30th, 2021 Last year, Tetris Effect: Connected promised a way to come together even as we were suspended in our quarantine bubbles. It still delivers.
Feature Excerpt Pendragon and Anti-Fascist Medievalism By Ruth Cassidy • October 29th, 2021 “Camelot has, for the moment, fallen, but the dream of Camelot – of a sane Government by consensus, led by an Arthur and not a Mordred – must and will live on.”
Feature Story Reconsidering Rotoscoped Animation for its Second Century By Morgan Galen King • October 28th, 2021 Rotoscoping puts the human body in the spotlight, where the focus on the body and its relationship to the fictional world around it is ever-present.
Feature Excerpt A World Beyond: The Inadvertent Sci-Fi of Universal’s Original Mummy Sequels By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2021 If you think about it, mummies are the original time travelers.