Interlinked Mending the Gardens of History By Phoenix Simms • October 8th, 2025 South of Midnight uses nature to underscore the ways that human care and legacies of hatred scar not just on a human-scale. We come from the dirt and eventually return to it.
Don't Stop Believing Bioshock 2 Asks You to Have the Faith of a Child By Elijah Beahm • October 7th, 2025 How far will you exploit others to achieve your own goals? And can you forgive others of their own misdeeds?
Here Be Monsters Nightmare Logic and the Horrors of Confusion By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2025 Each person trapped in Silent Hill is seeing their own unique version of Hell, and only occasionally do those visions overlap.
Past Presence The Cookbook Theory of Trails in the Sky By Dr. Emily Price • October 2nd, 2025 Cooking serves the world of Trails as much as the player within it. It’s an irremovable part of the worldbuilding.
Exploits Feature El Vampiro By John Goodrich • October 1st, 2025 Have you ever watched the 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula and thought I wish there were more Gothic twists?
Noise Complaint The Deftones Are the Weirdest Metal Band on Earth By Ben Sailer • September 30th, 2025 The Deftones have influenced everyone, but no one sounds exactly like the Deftones. That’s because their improbable career trajectory is impossible to follow.
Feature Excerpt The Butterfly Affect By Dayten Rose • September 26th, 2025 Themes that preoccupy the makers of games are magnetic to the image of the butterfly: spectacle, attention, illusion, mortality, autonomy.
Feature Story I Don’t Want to Be This Kind of Animal Anymore By Ashley Schofield • September 25th, 2025 You’re not crazy. You’re just different. You have a vast soul. This life is all you have, but it’s still something. You have to keep going.
Cults of RuneQuest By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 22nd, 2025 Blurring the line between mythology and roleplaying games.
