Self-Insert The Unsinkable Darcy Lewis By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2018 A side character from Thor has almost 15,000 fanfics featuring her. Amanda Hudgins asks the question: Why does Darcy Lewis persist?
Another Look Writing About Games: Learning to Love the Compromise By Yussef Cole • December 6th, 2018 There is only so much compartmentalization you can do in separating a game from its production process and the worldview it espouses before you, as a writer, become morally compromised.
Memescape We Are All Gritty By Alyse Stanley • December 5th, 2018 Gritty: An obsession; a movement; a cult. Ultimately, though, he’s a googly-eyed reflection of this tumultuous time.
Backlog What Matters and What Matters Last By Gavin Craig • December 4th, 2018 It’s a difficult thing to write about videogames when one doesn’t play very many videogames.
Documentary Sunday Terrace House By Megan Condis • November 28th, 2018 Unlike on American reality television, at no point do any of the residents of Terrace House seem interested in ceasing to be polite and starting to get “real.”
Rookie of the Year Let’s Go Paisley By Matt Marrone • November 27th, 2018 Not everything about Paisley Park is weird.
Collision Detection DDR Movie Marks a Positive Step By Ben Sailer • November 26th, 2018 Why make a movie about Dance Dance Revolution? Maybe a better question to ask is, “Why would they make a movie about any other game at all?”
Feature Excerpt Crack the Network: It’s Called Cyberpunk Not Cybersecurity By Liam Conlon • November 23rd, 2018 While disappointed by Cyberpunk 2077’s announcement to exclude a non-binary option, Conlon thinks it’s necessary to desire more than small kernels of representation.
This Mortal Coyle The Encarta MindMaze Witch By Deirdre Coyle • November 21st, 2018 Hidden in Microsoft Encarta ’95 lies one of the foundational goths of Deirdre’s childhood.
Feature Excerpt Flash Forever By Phantom • November 21st, 2018 A history of the delightful weirdness of Flash games.
