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Here Be Monsters
Art from Cult of the Lamb shows a cloaked lamb levitating above a pentacle as several other woodland creatures gaze at the scene reverantly.

Feeding the Cartoon Gators: Cult of the Lamb and Moral Disengagement

By Emma Kostopolus • May 30th, 2025

Everybody has some angry, sad, anxious and ultimately violent shit they want to work out.

Past Presence
A person points their arms towards the sky as if they're aiming an arrow, but there's no bow in their hands.

Fear of Failure in Many Nights a Whisper

By Dr. Emily Price • May 29th, 2025

This is a game about desire. Wishes are made and accepted to be granted. If they’re not, by definition, you failed.

Feature Story

Solidarity Forever

By David Shimomura • May 28th, 2025

Each of us has to stay in this long enough to build the future for the writers and producers who will come after us.

Feature Excerpt

What Does It Take to Appreciate Turbo Kid (2024)?

By Jay Weaver • May 27th, 2025

All art ought to be celebrated, and the Wasteland welcomes all.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – May 2025

By David Shimomura • May 22nd, 2025

Pour one out and one for yourselves.

Nonhuman Meditations
A ring-tailed lemur gazes off towards something out of frame in this nighttime photograph.

Distinguishing Nonhumans as Imagined by Humans

By Alyssa Wejebe • May 16th, 2025

ChatGPT and Midjourney have nothing without actual humans to extract from.

Forms in Light
A "divine beast" from Breath of the Wild, a giant stone bird soars through the sky, illuminated by a mystical blue electricity.

Tears of the Technocracy

By Justin Reeve • May 14th, 2025

The connection between technology and corruption found in Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild couldn’t be clearer.

Dialogue
Black and white glitch art suggesting a surging wave of binary code.

A Dialogue with Nick Capozzoli

By Autumn Wright • May 13th, 2025

“[M]ake fun of the video game industry at your own peril because whatever stupid thing is happening to us in that moment, it’s going to happen to you in about, say, a year and a half’s time.”

Noah's Beat Box
A heavily computer glitched photo of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, his face seeming to stretch across the whole width of the image.

My Deep, Dark, Terrible Secret

By Noah Springer • May 12th, 2025

Something I rarely share. Something only those closest to me know.

Casting Deep Meteo
Hayao Miyazaki rubs his hands on his head, his glasses clutched haphazardly in one. An unlit cigarette dangles from his mouth.

An Insult to Life Itself

By Levi Rubeck • May 9th, 2025

“We humans are losing faith in ourselves.”

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