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Area of Effect
Red, yellow and white onions piled on a counter.

The Play Space

By Jay Castello • August 13th, 2024

Wandrer.earth logs all the roads you’ve walked on (via a Strava integration). There is no way that these numbers will move considerably, ever, but seeing where I’ve been is compelling enough.

Rookie of the Year
A "no parking" sign used by the production team of the TV show Evil stapled to a telephone pole.

My Neighborhood is Literally Evil

By Matt Marrone • August 9th, 2024

A lot of shows are filmed in my neighborhood, but in the past few years, nothing has made its presence felt as much as Evil.

Interlinked
Art from Dragon Age: The Veilguard shows the adventuring party standing in a large ruined temple, staring out across a lush and green valley.

Bio Domes

By Phoenix Simms • August 8th, 2024

Dragon Age: Veilguard is being released during a period of global climate change, which makes some players view the game and its devotion to world building with an ecological slant.

Here Be Monsters
An oil rig, far out on stormy seas.

HR is Having a Field Day: Still Wakes the Deep as the Lovecraftian Banal

By Emma Kostopolus • August 7th, 2024

Still Wakes the Deep is essentially just being stuck in Hell with all your worst coworkers.

Mind Palaces
Detail from the cover of Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos featuring a cropped photo of a woman's blue eye and a large black dot evoking a period at the end of a sentence.

Booking It (Vol. 2)

By Maddi Chilton • August 6th, 2024

The thrilling conclusion to Maddi’s quest to read the entirety of the International Booker Prize longlist.

Past Presence
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.

Musings
Detail from a faded old postcard featuring the New York City skyline.

Don’t Look Up

By Blake Hester • July 31st, 2024

When you tell people, “Don’t look up,” you essentially are telling them, “Don’t enjoy where you live.”

Noise Complaint
Detail from the cover art for Better Lovers' God Made Me an Animal features two dark figures with heart eyes attached to each other by their tongues. On each of their chests is one half of a broken heart.

Better Vibes With Better Lovers

By Ben Sailer • July 30th, 2024

Ben goes to see metalcore supergroup Better Lovers and comes away with a renewed affection for his city and the power of the riff.

Funeral Rites
A drawing of a river cutting through a valley, rendered in striking black and red ink.

Smelting RPGs Down to Simple Bliss with Outcast Silver Raiders

By Justin Reeve • July 26th, 2024

“Perhaps out of a sense of satire or perhaps just because I really like horror movies, metal and the occult, I wanted to create something that would have been absolutely forbidden in my house.”

Feature Excerpt

The World Outside the Glass was Almost Gorgeous

By Will Borger • July 25th, 2024

The first step to solving a problem is admitting a problem exists, and the role you played in causing it. None of us are innocent.

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