Viva Belgrado By Mitchell Bowman • October 13th, 2016 “For as long as I can remember, it’s been a running joke that every good screamo band has to break up after a single album.”
Here's the Thing Getting Over Metal Gear Survive By Rob Rich • October 11th, 2016 People need to stop pretending that they wouldn’t be lapping it up if it was the self-proclaimed “auteur’s” idea in the first place.
Hate to Lose, Love to Win By Andrea Ayres • October 11th, 2016 “Our feelings about loss and failure tend to become more complicated when we begin to add in identity and social inclusion (or exclusion).”
Want Japanese? Better Pre-order! By David Shimomura • October 11th, 2016 Final Fantasy 7 will require you a pre-order for the original, Japanese voice acting. You’ll also get a crazy, chibi guy that wants to destroy the world.
Backlog The Sand and the Sea By Gavin Craig • October 10th, 2016 Giant Squid’s founder, Matt Nava, was art director for 2012’s Journey, and it’s clear that Abzû is an attempt to create a similar sort experiential parable.
Rookie of the Year If You Want to View Paradise By Matt Marrone • October 10th, 2016 “In high school, I wrote a musical.” Matt Marrone recalls a glorious time and pays tribute to Gene Wilder.
Brief Encounter By Adam Boffa • October 9th, 2016 If Brief Encounter does hold up, it’s probably because stories of love found at the wrong place and time are uniquely heartbreaking.
First Look: Galactic Junk League By David Shimomura • October 3rd, 2016 The Great Pacific garbage patch will reach the stars someday, so let’s make spaceships out of them and fight it out with a little trucker chic.
The Horrifying Simplicity of Elections By David Shimomura • September 26th, 2016 Local political analyst, David Shimomura, finds some frightening similarities between real politics and a game making a caricature of the political process.
Culture Starved By Stu Horvath • September 20th, 2016 Stu’s been so busy, he wonders if he’ll ever get back to consuming culture the way he used to.
