Forms in Light Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire By Justin Reeve • February 10th, 2023 Dishonored is a game which harkens back to a time when protection for working people was practically nonexistent, ruthless exploitation being the rule.
Always Autumn A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part I: Whose Apocalypse Is This? By Autumn Wright • February 9th, 2023 What does the beauty of a world born anew look like from the depths?
Casting Deep Meteo Mapping MÖRK BORG’s Cruel Delights By Levi Rubeck • February 8th, 2023 Then it hit me, like a dirty lightbulb in an ancient office that’s gone undisturbed for far too long – I can draw these rooms.
Area of Effect “The Abundant Nature” By Jay Castello • February 7th, 2023 The only thing I remembered from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s advertisement cycle was the shot where they cut to a deeply bland outdoor scene overlaid with the phrase in question.
Rookie of the Year No Rules Newport By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2023 Something happened at the most recent Newport Folk Festival – Sylvan Esso debuted their as-yet-to-be-released and previously-unheard album, No Rules Sandy – for the first time.
Interlinked The Triple Goddess Effect By Phoenix Simms • February 2nd, 2023 Like Hades protagonist Zagreus, Melinoë is also connected to an Orphic hymn, this time one that sings of her as a “saffron veil’d” nymph that inspires both night terrors and madness in people.
Mind Palaces Athletic Feats of Narrative By Maddi Chilton • January 31st, 2023 Experiencing a story as it happens, one where an ending hasn’t been decided – that is what gives sports their fun and their nerve.
Here Be Monsters Can Scorn Get Out From Under the Cosmic Horror Legacy? By Emma Kostopolus • January 27th, 2023 Scorn and other sci-fi horror games like it rely almost entirely on the horror of the unknown – the unknowable, the inconceivable, and the, well, alien.
Past Presence Recursion By Emily Price • January 26th, 2023 Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.
Run It Back 1966 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 25th, 2023 Freedom is one of those fundamental and recurring items in how we think about the world we live in and our place in it. There are few times where this was clearer than in 1966.
