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Key art from The Last Guardian showing the player character offering a feather to the Trico, a large winged creature with the sweetest face.

Ueda, Buddha & Me

By Perry Gottschalk • March 27th, 2024

Don’t come to these games as experts of others, come to these games as someone who has never played one.

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An incomplete jigsaw puzzle featuring Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch.

This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health

By Orrin Grey • March 26th, 2024

Sometimes watching a cute little blue alien struggle with the same things we struggle with can make it a little easier, at least for a while.

Here's the Thing
A scene from Disney's Tangled shows Rapunzel interrogating Finn, who she's got tied to a chair with her hair.

I Might Be Done with Dreams

By Rob Rich • March 15th, 2024

Rob reflects on his previous hopes and dreams, as well as why he doesn’t really have any more of them now. (But not in a depressing way, promise!)

Forms in Light
The Portal villain GLaDOS, a giant black and white robotic arm, hangs from the ceiling awaiting a final fight with the player.

Weaving the Bountiful Threads of Being

By Justin Reeve • March 14th, 2024

At what point does a bucket of bolts begin being a person? Does it ever?

Noah's Beat Box

Watching Kubrick on My Phone

By Noah Springer • March 13th, 2024

To be fair, I have never seen a Kubrick movie in theaters, so this entire thing may be flawed from the get-go.

Casting Deep Meteo
A shirtless Patrick Swayze practices his fightin' moves in a still from Road House.

Road House Ronin

By Levi Rubeck • March 12th, 2024

Miyamoto Usagi and Dalton’s stories aren’t totally parallel, but they rhyme in a lot of ways.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Beasts of Maravilla Island shows the protagonist observing a pair of colorful monkey sitting on the branch of a tree in a tropical forest.

Seasonal Space

By Jay Castello • March 8th, 2024

I played one section of Beasts of Maravilla Island and then I got on a bus, and the naked tree branches seemed more interesting than ever.

Rookie of the Year
The band U2 plays on a tiny stage just inside the gigantic circular wall of the Sphere, a huge flock of birds projected on its side.

Atomic City: U2 Go Nuclear at the Sphere

By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2024

If I lived in Las Vegas, I wouldn’t be writing this column at all, because I’d be at the show. Again. (And then again.)

Interlinked
The title screen from the original Prince of Persion, showing an Arabian palace in all its pixellated glory.

Making Leaps

By Phoenix Simms • March 6th, 2024

Sometimes a certain long-running series will grow alongside you, its relationship with you and your associated subtexts with it morphing over time.

Here Be Monsters
A screenshot from Dead Space shows a terrifying space monster attacking Isaac Clarke as he tries to scramble away backwards in his spacesuit.

In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto

By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024

Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.

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