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Mind Palaces
Key art from Promise Mascot Agency featuring the main cast of characters standing against a slightly washed out background.

Money Makes Kaso-Machi Go Round

By Maddi Chilton • September 5th, 2025

The most important thing to take from this is that the question of the relationship between cozy games and capitalism is 1) interesting and 2) unresolved.

Past Presence
The title screen for A Solitaire Mystery shows the title in a classy serif font superimposed on a dark background with several question marks of various sizes.

An Evening with Solitaire Mystery

By Dr. Emily Price • September 4th, 2025

A Solitaire Mystery is not player-hostile, exactly, but player-neutral. Fitting, for a game about a game you play by yourself.

Run It Back
Detail from an early cover of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Autumn of the Patriarch shows the back-lit silhouette of a man leaning against the railing of a balcony.

1975

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 3rd, 2025

Even those who cling to thrones must die eventually.

Exploits Feature

GTA IV’s Time Capsule

By J. Barnes • September 2nd, 2025

The world of Grand Theft Auto IV is one of stasis.

Wargames West

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 1st, 2025

There’s no time machine quite like an old catalog.

Noise Complaint
The band Grails stands on the crest of a hill covered in reddish grasses and shrubs, cloudy blue sky behind them.

Exploring the Miraculous Existence of Grails

By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2025

Instrumental rock band Grails have released a studio album that’s impossible to perform live. Somehow, it’s decisions like this that have defined their success.

Feature Excerpt
A still from GODZILLA X KONG shows a roaring Godzilla with spikes of pink atomic energy erupting from his head and back.

A Godzilla for All Seasons

By Orrin Grey • August 28th, 2025

Pretty much everyone has a favorite Godzilla movie, they’re more than happy to tell you which one it is, and it could be absolutely any one of them.

Feature Story
In a snowy scene, a boy and his father walk alongside train tracks as a train approaches. The boy carries an electric typewriter.

Making Prince of Persia: A Family’s World War II Survival Memoir

By Charles H. Huang • August 27th, 2025

Replay is a genre defying graphic memoir that acts not just as a celebration of game development, but as a warning.

Feature Excerpt

Duck, Duck, Goose

By Samantha Trzinski • August 26th, 2025

“All hail the goose,” we say, to which the goose simply replies, “Honk.”

Toys, Toys, Toys

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 25th, 2025

More plastic for the sculpture gallery.

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