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Casting Deep Meteo
A close-up shot of a bio-cybernetic "Runner" from Bungie's shooter game Marathon, who is hooded and wearing harsh black-and-white face paint with glowing red eyes.

Corporations Steeped in Phraseology

By Levi Rubeck • April 14th, 2026

Marathon is threading the needle between art and service, a refreshingly bold work from a technical monolith.

Totally Generic
A still from Hamnet shows a top-down view of an actor onstage holding his hands out towards the audience as they reach towards him in turn.

Hamnet

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 10th, 2026

Entering into any kind of relationship that you don’t intend to break is accepting death as a third.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Flotsam shows a floating town constructed entirely from salvaged garbage and ocean debris.

Captain of the Ship

By Jay Castello • April 9th, 2026

I have a confession to make. Not everybody in my world of Flotsam made it.

Rookie of the Year
A screenshot from Donkey Kong Bonanza has Donkey Kong holding his cheeks while making a goofy face, miniature bananas dancing in his eyes.

Therapy Bananza!

By Matt Marrone • April 8th, 2026

Pounding your chest to activate a Bananza, then annihilating everything around you at breakneck speed – that is the true joy of the game.

Don't Stop Believing
Wonder Woman, wielding a gigantic blade, battles several dragon-like creatures known as harbingers.

Absolute Wonder Woman Embraces Its Wild Religious Heritage Beautifully

By Elijah Beahm • April 7th, 2026

Diana prays. She prays often, and when I say she prays, I don’t mean like in a cliche Hollywood way.

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.

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