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The Black Rainbow Society

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 13th, 2024

Best beware when you’re walking on the nightside!

Forms in Light
A wide shot of the ruins of Göbekli Tepe taken on a bright, sunny day.

Stone to Screen

By Justin Reeve • May 10th, 2024

The monumental structures at Göbekli Tepe offer plenty of potential for modern fields of study including videogame level design.

Noah's Beat Box
A still from Poor Things shows main character Bella gazing out from a stone balcony at a cotton candy-colored sunset.

Going to Extremes

By Noah Springer • May 9th, 2024

Drawing lines between Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and Nikos Nikolaidis’ cult favorite Singapore Sling. Did the latter influence the former?

Casting Deep Meteo
A birds-eye view of the PAX East 2024 show floor, featuring a zillion gaming-related booths and even more people milling around them.

PAX East 2024: Family Time

By Levi Rubeck • May 8th, 2024

We wandered the show floor and the convention center for two days, getting boba, shitty pizza and standing in plenty of lines. All in service of the greater question: What’s the youth take on gaming today?

Area of Effect
Two characters from Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley gaze up a lovely blue lighthouse.

A Wilderness of Thoughts Grown in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

By Jay Castello • May 7th, 2024

The garden is not the park, although the tension of its civilizing influence is never resolved.

Bryan Ansell, 1955-2023

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 6th, 2024

A giant of tabletop remembered.

Rookie of the Year
A trio of Minecraft pandas looks up through a blocky bamboo grove.

Minecraft Menagerie

By Matt Marrone • May 3rd, 2024

So . . . how many pandas does it take to crash Minecraft?

Mind Palaces
Wiktor Szulski, the protagonist of The Thaumaturge, stands moodily holding an open tome while a terrifying creature looms behind him.

Empathetic Magic

By Maddi Chilton • May 2nd, 2024

Wiktor’s entire mode of interaction with the world is one of applied empathy, concentrated and made into magic through the indefinite occultisms of thaumaturgy.

Exploits Feature

The Impossibility of Mods Makes Them So Valuable

By Elijah Beahm • May 1st, 2024

Why would anyone do this, with minimal support, working uphill against someone else’s code, for free?

This Mortal Coyle
The Lyktgubbe from Bramble: The Mountain King, holding a glowing lantern, stoops to talk to a small figure in a dense forest awash with flowers.

The Lyktgubbe from Bramble: The Mountain King

By Deirdre Coyle • April 30th, 2024

My adult brain feels desperate to chase after lights in the forest, lights I haven’t seen in some time. As a child, I knew better.

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