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Gameplayers

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 29th, 2024

Where does the game end and real life begin?

Run It Back
A still from Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives shows several red-eyed gorillas sitting in a misty forest, staring straight at the viewer.

2011

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 26th, 2024

Tayo heads back to 2011, taking a look at two films which show us how the world beyond etches itself onto our reality.

Friction Burns
Screenshot from Life Eater where a very bright room has a man on his knees and holding his head as if in great pain while in shadow behind him someone crouches or lies in a cage, and words at the bottom read "my brain explodes for my insolence"

Surveillance Paranoia Where You Most and Least Expect It

By Ruth Cassidy • April 25th, 2024

When Life Eater takes away access, you realize just what you were getting from it.

Musings

The Everlasting Allure of the Shitty City

By Blake Hester • April 25th, 2024

I feel like I’ve never truly cared about where I live, and as such, places have never felt truly comfortable. But I do care about Astoria, about New York.

Noise Complaint
An extremely glitched closeup of the knot of a man's polka-dotted tie, an image with the air corrupted spy cam footage.

My Google Home is Cursed: A Cosmic Horror Story

By Ben Sailer • April 24th, 2024

When Ben’s smart speaker refuses to play music from specific artists, he begins to believe it’s cursed. Could his delusions of demonic possession be true?

Funeral Rites
A black-and-white ink drawing of a badass-looking angel holding a wicked cool sword.

The Tower, The Fool, The Meatgrinder

By Noah Springer • April 23rd, 2024

“His Majesty the Worm is very focused on megadungeon-crawling, and I wanted players to have this sense that surviving the dangers means something.”

Star Trek: The Role Playing Game

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 22nd, 2024

Set phasers to stun!

Feature Excerpt
A still from Children of Men shows a man leading a woman and her just-born child through a throng of soldiers.

Apocalyptic Pregnancy

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 19th, 2024

Perhaps an emotional response to a presidential election year, the weather, uncontrolled rent, or genocide – people on a large scale are questioning parenting as an ethical choice.

Feature Excerpt
A portrait of Alan Wake looking tortured, red branch-like markings scattered across the dark image.

It’s Not a Loop, It’s a Spiral

By Autumn Wright • April 18th, 2024

Maybe Alan Wake is like me. Maybe I’m like Alan. Trying to write my way out. Maybe the writing is just incidental to this compulsion, something we’re drawn to.

Get in the Van

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 15th, 2024

Road trip!

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