Exploits Feature Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2023 “[I]t took me 19 years to listen to the commentary tracks for Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, a show I’ve watched at least once a year for the past 35.”
Exploits Feature Magnum, P.I. vs. Miami Vice By Stu Horvath • November 1st, 2023 We all know Jessica Fletcher is the greatest TV detective of the ’80s, but who is the runner up?
Exploits Feature Pop Culture Bubblegum Slurry By Michael Lee • October 2nd, 2023 “Just subscribe to Content Inc.’s new streaming service CRAM: Where we cram pop culture slurry down your throat until you die!”
Video Game of the Year By Noah Springer • September 15th, 2023 “…an inviting look into the history of the genre since Pong popped into people’s homes all the way back in 1977.”
Exploits Feature Freaks By Dr. Dobermind • September 1st, 2023 “You laughed at them, shuddered at them. And, yet, but for the accident of birth, you might be one as they are.”
Exploits Feature Playable Campaigns By Toby Jaffe • August 9th, 2023 I cannot imagine anything as alien in 2023 as conceptualizing politics as fun.
Exploits Feature The Batman Problem By Jeremy Greco • August 1st, 2023 In a game set in Gotham City, why would a player ever want to be anyone other than Batman?
Exploits Feature Mechanical Sympathy By Van Dennis • May 1st, 2023 “…you learn to care for a machine to the point where you see it as more than just metal.”
Exploits Feature Formula 1: Drive to Survive By Amanda Hudgins • April 3rd, 2023 I don’t care about Formula 1. One of my favorite shows is the Netflix F1 series Drive to Survive.
Exploits Feature The Beauty of Backlog By Connor Queen • February 3rd, 2023 Speak to most gamers, and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: Backlogs are annoying.
Exploits Feature Biking the Beat By Autumn Wright • February 1st, 2023 “After biking some 2,000 miles in the city last year, my memories of my new home are tied to rides and their soundtracks.”
Exploits Feature Unpacking By Krista McCay • January 2nd, 2023 Objects they keep, objects they part with…
Exploits Feature My Least Favorite C-Word By M. Shaw • December 1st, 2022 Every brush I’ve had with actually celebrating Christmas has been a complete horror show.
Exploits Feature Les Femmes Grotesques By Noah Springer • November 10th, 2022 Victoria Dalpe’s newest collection of horror shorts offers up visions of the weird and the terrifying that will linger in your head long after you’re done reading.
Exploits Feature The Peripheral By Sara Clemens • October 31st, 2022 Two eras, some twisty time shenanigans and virtual reality collide in a TV adaptation of William Gibson’s novel.
Exploits Feature The Rehearsal By Yussef Cole • September 1st, 2022 “In trying to control your life, you wind up creating fiction.”
Exploits Feature Ape Out and Value By Griffin Shufeldt • July 31st, 2022 The money spent/playtime ratio is no match for this freedom-seeking ape.
Exploits Feature An Ode to Videogame Jumps By Jordan Havlik • July 1st, 2022 Even a bad jump is better than no jump.
Exploits Feature Almost Ready to Face the Present By Levi Rubeck • May 2nd, 2022 Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence has reminded us that we are more resilient than we often believe ourselves to be.
Exploits Feature Putting the Beast to Bed By Bryn Gelbart • March 31st, 2022 If there’s gotta be an ending, why not make it a happy one?
Exploits Feature The Absurd Pleasures of Atari 2600 Box Art By Alexander B. Joy • February 28th, 2022 Unrepresentative box art once formed a key pillar of classic gaming.
Exploits Feature What We Never Saw By Orrin Grey • January 31st, 2022 Where the Saw franchise didn’t go, but maybe should have.
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.
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.
Exploits Feature “The Call of Cthulhu” By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2021 There are a million ways to read “The Call of Cthulhu,” but this one sure is the prettiest.
Exploits Feature Tomie By Yussef Cole • August 31st, 2021 She is the fantasy and the nightmare, all at once.
Exploits Feature The Shadow of the Cat By Orrin Grey • August 1st, 2021 An old lady gets knocked off by her husband and servants in a relatively brutal opening, and the only witness is the cat. So far so good.
Exploits Feature Substack Dracula By Noah Springer • June 30th, 2021 The horror of Dracula, right in your inbox.
Exploits Feature Variations By Autumn Wright • June 1st, 2021 What these recordings offer in their canonization of different variations is a juxtaposition that glimpses lives and careers.
Exploits Feature Queer Black Manhoods By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 3rd, 2021 Black men in the West are offered two models for existing and neither have room for queerness.
Exploits Feature A Tale of Two Godzillas By Van Dennis • March 31st, 2021 One of the longest enduring myths in cinema was how there were supposedly two distinct endings to 1962’s King Kong vs Godzilla.
Exploits Feature What’s the Message of “The Ugly Duckling” Anyways? By Raven Wu • February 28th, 2021 “It matters little to be born in a duck-yard when one comes from a swan’s egg!”
