626 Day This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health By Orrin Grey • June 26th, 2024 As a weird kid myself, who grew up into a weird adult, it’s easy to see aspects of myself in both Lilo and Stitch – and I’m not alone.
Feature Story Minus One Is King By David Shimomura • June 26th, 2024 Everyone has trauma. Godzilla is definitely still cool but he’s deeply threatening and he probably hates you.
Feature Story Making a Mess in Kaiju No. 8 By Van Dennis • June 25th, 2024 Kaiju No. 8 is a wonderfully refreshing series: a show about someone in their early 30s who finds out that their dream is still achievable, even if it’s by unconventional means.
Here's the Thing ACAB Includes Martin Brody By Rob Rich • June 13th, 2024 Roy Scheider’s depiction of Amity Island police chief Martin Brody is charming, sweet, and charismatic. But that doesn’t make him any less of a bastard.
Forms in Light The First City By Justin Reeve • June 12th, 2024 What do the settlement of Plainsong in Horizon Forbidden West and the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük have in common?
Always Autumn The Worst Case Scenario By Autumn Wright • June 11th, 2024 It’s worth asking whether people in the past thought they lived at the end times. It’s worth more to realize that despite the recurring sentiment, we do.
Casting Deep Meteo Zazen Boys and the Healing Riff By Levi Rubeck • June 7th, 2024 Zazen Boys, even after so long, is clearly not afraid to confront multiple shades of life, breaking time and time signatures while remaining achingly human.
Area of Effect Supergiant’s Scrappier, Better Underworld By Jay Castello • June 6th, 2024 So much of Hades, and by extension Hades II, can be seen in the primordial soup of Pyre.
Rookie of the Year If You Can’t Wed It, Reddit By Matt Marrone • June 5th, 2024 Reddit seems to actually care when no one else does.
Interlinked Intergenerational Design By Phoenix Simms • June 4th, 2024 Despite all the technical aspects of game design, it’s human involvement that makes the process vibrant and organic.
