Past Presence Most Media Memory-Holed the Pandemic. Not 1000XRESIST By Emily Price • August 2nd, 2024 Playing 1000xRESIST means stepping into the shoes of an observer to millions of people finding out in real time they’ve been exposed to a disease there’s no way to stop.
Exploits Feature The Rise of Miles Morales By Latonya Pennington • August 1st, 2024 A superhero can be a powerful role model to look up to.
Musings Don’t Look Up By Blake Hester • July 31st, 2024 When you tell people, “Don’t look up,” you essentially are telling them, “Don’t enjoy where you live.”
Noise Complaint Better Vibes With Better Lovers By Ben Sailer • July 30th, 2024 Ben goes to see metalcore supergroup Better Lovers and comes away with a renewed affection for his city and the power of the riff.
Barony By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 29th, 2024 Surely a time machine was involved in the development of this game.
Funeral Rites Smelting RPGs Down to Simple Bliss with Outcast Silver Raiders By Justin Reeve • July 26th, 2024 “Perhaps out of a sense of satire or perhaps just because I really like horror movies, metal and the occult, I wanted to create something that would have been absolutely forbidden in my house.”
Feature Excerpt The World Outside the Glass was Almost Gorgeous By Will Borger • July 25th, 2024 The first step to solving a problem is admitting a problem exists, and the role you played in causing it. None of us are innocent.
Feature Excerpt The Games Space By Jay Castello • July 24th, 2024 Geoff is excited for videogames at Opening Night Live in August. Geoff is excited for videogames at the Game Awards in December. Geoff is excited for videogames at Summer Game Fest in June. Soon it will be August again.
Letter to a Heroine Bobot Bobot and the Power of Cute By Melissa King • July 23rd, 2024 Mel’s back with an essay praising the most important heroine of all: herself.
Nonhuman Meditations Godzilla: From Nuclear Trauma to Emotionally Recovering in the Colosseum By Alyssa Wejebe • July 22nd, 2024 While Godzilla was created from nuclear warfare – he’s ultimately not his creator. Or he doesn’t have to be.
