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Rookie of the Year
Detail from Shearwater's "The Great Awakening" album cover, featuring a black and white rendering of several animals circling a giant egg.

I’m a Record Producer Now

By Matt Marrone • September 9th, 2022

Until now, Matt’s musical credits have amounted to little more than a one-night-only metal taco performance at Mercury Lounge.

Interlinked
In a detail from the cover art of Javy Gwaltney’s Into the Doomed World, a lone tombstone sits in a large grassy field lit by sunset, mountains and trees rising behind it.

The Hopeful Disharmony of Into the Doomed World

By Phoenix Simms • September 8th, 2022

Phoenix talks to Javy Gwaltney about Into the Doomed World, his new short-story collection about 30 self-aware NPCs in a world that’s been sentenced to a slow apocalypse by its player.

Collision Detection

Game Guides vs. The SEO Grind: Who Wins and Loses?

By Ben Sailer • September 7th, 2022

Physical strategy guides are on their way out. But is the SEO sinkhole that has replaced them better? Spoiler alert: no.

Mind Palaces
A black and white lithograph of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson deep in discussion while traveling by train.

An Introduction

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2022

It is becoming more and more challenging to consume art, to use the current crass colloquialism. We just know too much.

The Mimic

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 5th, 2022

Nothing is what it seems!

Past Presence
A striking black and white image of spreading plant roots.

Rehearsal

By Dr. Emily Price • September 2nd, 2022

The Rehearsal has been called manipulative, sociopathic and dangerous by people on the internet. All of these are obviously exaggerations and misnomers.

Exploits Feature

The Rehearsal

By Yussef Cole • September 1st, 2022

“In trying to control your life, you wind up creating fiction.”

Eyeing Elsewhere
A chef in a fast-casual Chicago restaurant kitchen, screaming intensely while simultaneously cooking.

Just Above the Noise

By Phillip Russell • August 31st, 2022

The Bear is a show about the traumas that our previous workplaces, managers and family members imprint on us and the struggles we face not only in trying to overcome them, but to break the chain.

The Beat Box
A drawing of a man opening his face on a hinge, revealing colorful circuitry in place of flesh and bone.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2022

By Noah Springer • August 30th, 2022

Well, it’s August and boy is it hot! But this column isn’t about the heat that comes from the atmosphere, just the heat that comes off these fresh drops.

Friction Burns
Screenshot of Signs of the Sojourner with a shadowy anthropomorphized animal on the left and a smiling young person on the right, with cards held and played in between

There’s Two Sides To The Story in Signs of the Sojourner

By Ruth Cassidy • August 29th, 2022

There’s a truth at its heart of Signs of the Sojourner’s conversational card games: you cannot prepare the perfect conversation.

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