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Here Be Monsters
A still from Return to Silent Hill shows a woman with her arms and legs bent at unnatural angles stands beneath the arch of an overpass on a gloomy, foggy day.

Emotional High Fidelity: On Adapting Horror Games

By Emma Kostopolus • April 3rd, 2026

Both Return to Silent Hill and Iron Lung take pretty extreme creative liberties with the stories they tell, but only the latter is successful as an adaptation.

Mind Palaces
Detail from the cover art of The Tainted Cup shows a metal goblet surrounded by lush plants and flowers in a nighttime setting.

Memory Games

By Maddi Chilton • April 2nd, 2026

Especially in a mystery, characters are developed by their functional interactions with the world.

The Guest
A blurred object in the foreground covers the lower half of Helena Egan's face in a scene from Severance, leaving only her eyes and perfectly coiffed hair visible.

Female Sex Tourism & Severance

By Amanda Hudgins • March 31st, 2026

Like all trips, all vacations, you eventually must return home.

Past Presence
A screenshot from Hozy shows a cross-sectioned room in an empty house.

Next Fest Demos and Friends

By Dr. Emily Price • March 27th, 2026

This month I was broke, so I spent time playing free things only: good news for me that it was Next Fest.

Feature Excerpt
A first-person perspective screenshot from the survival horror shooter game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The player character is holding a yellow electronic device in their left hand and a pistol in their right hand.

Two Women Talking about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

By Vehe Mently • March 26th, 2026

It’s about men. STALKER is a series about men. You never see a woman anywhere.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – March 2026

By David Shimomura • March 23rd, 2026

Calm before the storm.

Nonhuman Meditations
Mabel Pines meets a rainbow-maned unicorn in an episode of the animated series Gravity Falls.

Sensing and Leaving the Unicorn Trap

By Alyssa Wejebe • March 13th, 2026

Even when I was little, I could tell that when it came to unicorns and dragons, unicorns were pushed onto girls, and dragons were meant for boys.

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