Exploits Feature Lists Issue Introduction By Stu Horvath • June 3rd, 2024 A celebration of the importance of lists. A celebration of the ubiquity of lists. A celebration of the absurdity of lists.
Funeral Rites Sailing the Ashen Sea with Tephrotic Nightmares By Maddi Chilton • May 23rd, 2024 The strongest character in the setting – the most vivid, the most realized, and the most overwhelming – is the Ashen Sea itself.
Feature Excerpt An Attempt Against Muscular Demonstrations of Power: Child of Light at Ten By Luis Aguasvivas • May 22nd, 2024 A decade after its release, the whimsy of Ubisoft Montreal’s Child of Light still twinkles.
Exploits Feature The Impossibility of Mods Makes Them So Valuable By Elijah Beahm • May 1st, 2024 Why would anyone do this, with minimal support, working uphill against someone else’s code, for free?
Funeral Rites The Tower, The Fool, The Meatgrinder By Noah Springer • April 23rd, 2024 “His Majesty the Worm is very focused on megadungeon-crawling, and I wanted players to have this sense that surviving the dangers means something.”
Feature Excerpt Apocalyptic Pregnancy By Natasha Ochshorn • April 19th, 2024 Perhaps an emotional response to a presidential election year, the weather, uncontrolled rent, or genocide – people on a large scale are questioning parenting as an ethical choice.
Feature Excerpt It’s Not a Loop, It’s a Spiral By Autumn Wright • April 18th, 2024 Maybe Alan Wake is like me. Maybe I’m like Alan. Trying to write my way out. Maybe the writing is just incidental to this compulsion, something we’re drawn to.
Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time) By Juno Stump • April 5th, 2024 We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.
Exploits Feature Liminality: Fear of Transition By Kasio Dalton • April 1st, 2024 “It’s a terrifying suggestion that someone might call a transitory space home.”
Funeral Rites Between the Skies and Beyond the Horizon By Justin Reeve • March 28th, 2024 Designer Huffa Frobes-Cross refers to Between the Skies as “rules minimalist, fiction maximalist.”
