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A screenshot from Final Fantasy VII asks the player, "Push the barrel?" The curser is currently pointed at "Yes."

Let’s Do It Again, But This Time Better

By Dr. Emily Price • April 4th, 2025

Can the Remake trilogy, vastly expanded as it is, be a “good” remake of FFVII?

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Art from Misericorde Volume 2: White Wool and Snow shows a figure breaking through the starry firmament, rendered in a woodcut style.

Misericorde: White Wool and Snow Review

By Dr. Emily Price • February 28th, 2025

Everyone is lying, and that’s before we even consider the mystery.

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Key art from Dragon Age: The Veilguard shows the player character standing in front of a composite image of their companions, a huge dragon spreading its wings behind them all.

Mid

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2025

We hurl “mid” at all kinds of popular culture and, if we’re mean, into the comments of streamers or on people’s outfit reels. What do we mean when we say it?

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Key art from the cover of Dragon Age: Inquisition shows several members of an adventuring party gathered together with weapons raised. The surrounding scenery resembles a dragon with its wings outstretched.

Dragon Age is Forever

By Dr. Emily Price • December 4th, 2024

If one of the biggest criticisms of Inquisition is that it overstays its welcome, then one of its best qualities is that it lets you live inside the dream for as long as you want.

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A still from Sex and the City episode "The Baby Shower" shows a woman sitting on the floor changing a baby's diaper, grinning like a jack-o-lantern at the camera.

Dream Vacation

By Dr. Emily Price • October 31st, 2024

The suburbs are conformity, and they’re also, for people around a certain age, parenthood.

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Key art for 1000xRESIST featuring a young woman's pensive face seen in profile through the face shield of a space helmet.

Most Media Memory-Holed the Pandemic. Not 1000XRESIST

By Dr. 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.

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A screenshot from Katamari Damacy shows a gigantic ball of detritus in a field of green, a rainbow stretching across the blue sky. A cow and her calf graze nearby, incuriously.

Killing the Dragon

By Dr. Emily Price • July 3rd, 2024

Both Dungeon Meshi and the Katamari franchise ask you to zoom in and look closely, keep your eyes peeled for small details, and never forget them even when they’re a speck on the surface of a massive star.

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A screenshot from Octopia shows the main character standing on a bridge overlooking a beautiful mountain valley.

Octopia is a Sweet Farming Sim That Rewrites Eastward’s History

By Dr. Emily Price • March 29th, 2024

Simple stories don’t have to overcomplicate themselves to be good.

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A screenshot from In Stars and Time shows two characters sharing a bench and looking off towards an ephemeral castle in the night sky.

What Time Loops Mean to Me

By Dr. Emily Price • February 29th, 2024

Time loop games give us the opportunity to grow alongside the main character.

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A screenshot from Coffee Talk showing a pixelated cup of coffee with the words, "Black Lemon. A perfect – if unlikely – combination of sour and bitter."

Romanticize Your Life!

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2024

If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.

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