The Burnt Offering The Feels By Stu Horvath • December 3rd, 2018 What happens when a horror story tries to manifest in the real world?
Documentary Sunday The Bleeding Edge By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2018 The FDA has failed for decades in its duty to oversee medical technologies, with women disproportionately falling victim.
The Heavy Pour New Gods By Sara Clemens • November 2nd, 2018 New York Comic Con is a monument to hype with amusements deliberately designed to part fans from their money and/or time, but Sara would hate to miss the fantasy.
Here's The Thing I Hate My Dream Job By Rob Rich • October 4th, 2018 After years of dreaming of getting paid to review videogames, Rob finally got that chance. Then, after almost a decade, he realized that he hated it.
Assassination Nation has Blood in its Teeth By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 The moral of Assassination Nation is that high school boys are terrible and you should kill them.
The Harmful Misconceptions Behind We Happy Few By Alyse Stanley • September 25th, 2018 Compulsion Games’ recent release rebukes psychiatric drugs in its attempt to build a commentary around them.
This Mortal Coyle Top Ten Characters I Hate By Deirdre Coyle • September 24th, 2018 September 2018 is the first anniversary of This Mortal Coyle and, to celebrate, Deirdre Coyle lists ten characters that make her blood boil.
The Gay Normalcy Fantasy By Jeremy Signor • September 12th, 2018 Sometimes we just want to escape into a power fantasy. For many gay people, there’s power in the fantasy of normalcy.
No Accounting for Taste Studio Ghibli and the Climate Crisis By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2018 A pair of ‘90s Ghibli films reveal the depths of our environmental problem but refuse to give up hope.
Collision Detection Whether its NFL or RPG, A Party Trumps Its Players By Ben Sailer • August 30th, 2018 How communities and players lose sight of the people behind their beloved teams.
The Boxes and Paraphernalia of Captain Spirit By Khee Hoon Chan • August 16th, 2018 Objects carry with them an innately human connection; but in Captain Spirit, what’s left behind when these items are taken away also conjures an achingly compelling narrative.
No Accounting For Taste The (Sort Of, But Not Really) Radical Politics of Infinity War By Adam Boffa • July 16th, 2018 To see the radical message in Avengers: Infinity War, all we have to do is ignore everything about it.
The Heavy Pour Our Town By Sara Clemens • July 13th, 2018 Nothing says summer like mystery, and the point-and-click adventure Unforseen incidents stirs up half-remembered recollections of murder cases and childhood towns.
Feature Excerpt Remembering Doom on SNES By Ben Sailer • July 12th, 2018 Doom for the Super Nintendo was an incredible feat of technical trickery. It’s also my favorite game of all time that I never want to play again.
Ill Considered’s Sublime Echolocation By Levi Rubeck • July 12th, 2018 I watched Lost Highway alone at midnight, on a sweltering Northern California summer evening, and when it was finally over I only really retained two thoughts.
The Mathematical Brilliance of WarioWare By Khee Hoon Chan • July 4th, 2018 The annals of math rock is a motley of multifarious influences, from the understated sounds of minimal music to the aggressive intensity of post-hardcore.
Gingy's Corner Where Are the Disabilities in Visual Novels? By Gingy Gibson • June 29th, 2018 Nearly seven years after its release, Katawa Shoujo is still the most prominent visual novel with disabled characters. That’s not a good thing.
The Burnt Offering False Memory By Stu Horvath • May 14th, 2018 Whats the French phrase for the feeling you get when you watch a classic movie you’re sure you’ve already seen only to find you never have? In English, it’s probably “disorienting embarrassment.”
Documentary Sunday AlphaGo By Megan Condis • April 10th, 2018 What if artificial intelligence reveals a different way for us to be human?
Here's the Thing Monster Hunter and the Mainstream By Rob Rich • April 9th, 2018 Monster Hunter: World is a prime example of how a series can change itself to appeal to a mainstream audience without forsaking long time fans.
Rookie of the Year Halt and Catch Death By Matt Marrone • March 29th, 2018 I used to believe I was immune to regret. I wore it like a tacky t-shirt. Now I know I have a virtually endless string of regret. Not bad choices, necessarily. Just so much taken for granted.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Betrays the Heart of Storytelling By Jeremy Signor • March 26th, 2018 Storytelling is dynamic. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine makes it feel static.
Dispatches from GDC 2018: Day Three By Amanda Hudgins • March 22nd, 2018 Amanda goes to GDC with a press pass. This is a Day Three of her experience.
Your Spoony Speedrunner By Levi Rubeck • February 21st, 2018 To watch Final Fantasy IV get flayed so fluently, with a mind-boggling grace not unlike a stolen car getting stripped for parts in seconds…
Digital Voyeurism – A Familiar, if Strange Game By Alyse Stanley • January 15th, 2018 We’ve come to regard phones as such intimate extensions of ourselves. That’s why taking the helm of another’s device is at once instantly familiar and strange.
Gingy's Corner A Culinary School Sim, with Dating Elements By Gingy Gibson • January 12th, 2018 Let’s start our month of regret with Pastry Lovers, the world’s premiere broken English baking otome.
