Area of Effect The Call is Coming from Inside the Courtroom By Jay Castello • February 13th, 2024 Great Ace Attorney, set in Meiji era Japan and Victorian London, manages to upend the sacred space of the courtroom.
Rookie of the Year Mysolda: Renewing My Wedding Vows … with an NPC By Matt Marrone • February 13th, 2024 In many ways, my exploits in Skyrim remain the greatest achievements of my pathetic little life.
Interlinked Now You’re Playing with Privilege By Phoenix Simms • February 9th, 2024 With times being as turbulent as they are in real life, sitting and appreciating a game’s artistry feels distinctly useless at times.
Here Be Monsters Loading the Gun: Simulation and Realism in Horror Mechanics By Emma Kostopolus • February 8th, 2024 Horror in game mechanics arises from the difference in how we interact with things that are realistic versus things that absolutely are not.
Mind Palaces Mostly Normal People By Maddi Chilton • February 7th, 2024 In the past few years of weird and superficial social media-based media criticism, a character’s relatability (or, used not synonymously but often close to it, likability) is shorthand for how successful they are within their text.
This Mortal Coyle Goth Femmes of Elden Ring By Deirdre Coyle • February 6th, 2024 Ranking Elden Ring’s goth femmes from “least” to “most” goth.
Self-Insert Mary Sue By Amanda Hudgins • February 2nd, 2024 She is you, a teenager who is stuck in a small town with no friends, with cruel acquaintances who don’t love any of the things that you do, who has been told for years that boys bully you because they like you.
Past Presence Romanticize Your Life! By Emily Price • January 31st, 2024 If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.
Run It Back Sex and Cinema By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2024 At the same time as a quasi-accepting era which brings us more art focused on marginalized people, a soft Hayes Code re-emerges, allowing for the clean lines of queerness but not the smudges.
Noise Complaint Age, Angst, and Paint It Black By Ben Sailer • January 26th, 2024 On their latest album Famine, long-running hardcore punk band Paint It Black prove that righteous anger has no age limit.
