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Past Presence
Concept art for Hyrule Field in The Legend of Zelda. Across its wide expanse, one can see a distant mountain wreathed in smoke and the hazy outlines of a many-spired castle.

Object Lessons #1: Field

By Dr. Emily Price • August 31st, 2023

Are fields a stage for action to take place on, or are they the action themselves?

Run It Back

1982

By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 30th, 2023

This month we step on over to 1982 to discuss two films which tell the stories of a Black relationship on each side of the Atlantic.

Noise Complaint

Nu-Metal Might Be Good, Actually?

By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2023

Ben recalls a time he talked shit about a Korn cover band and is forced into several personal epiphanies.

Funeral Rites
A black and white etching of a fanciful city made up partly of large ships, with towers and buildings sprouting from the decks of huge man-o-wars.

Inventing a World of Insectoid Wonders

By Justin Reeve • August 25th, 2023

We delve into the mind of creator Eduardo Carabaño, exploring the history, philosophy, inspirations and design processes that carried Settlers of a Dead God from inception to publication.

Feature Story
A still from Planet of the Dinosaurs shows two people not wearing nearly enough protective gear trying to fend of a tyrannosaurus rex with a tiny little knife.

Spacemen & Dinosaurs

By David Busboom • August 24th, 2023

Interplanetary explorers have been encountering dinosaurs or dinosaur-like creatures in fiction for more than a century.

Feature Excerpt
A screenshot from Hypnospace Outlaw with a giant yellow being operating what looks like a remote control by wielding it with a metal tentacle connected to his temple.

Odes of the Boomershooter

By Holly Boson • August 23rd, 2023

“If we’re entering an age of renewed zeal for nu-metal, I think Slayers X deserves to be mentioned within the first breaths of the conversation.”

Here's the Thing
A scene from Aliens shows Ripley shining an electric torch across a field of unhatched xenomorph eggs.

Enough With The “Alien” Comparisons

By Rob Rich • August 16th, 2023

Most modern sci-fi horror movies that involve a monster (or monsters) wind up being compared to Alien, which Rob thinks is a load of bull.

Forms in Light
A top-down view of a busy city with streets filled with tiny cars and grids of miniature buildings.

Hidden Assumptions

By Justin Reeve • August 15th, 2023

Cities: Skylines and Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic provide unique experiences in urban planning and resource management while representing completely different political economies.

Noah's Beat Box

How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love Vanderpump Rules

By Noah Springer • August 11th, 2023

“The Beat Box” is rebranding to “Noah’s Beat Box.”

Area of Effect

Space in Space

By Jay Castello • August 9th, 2023

Mars First Logistics being about delivery, moving through the open world becomes something very deliberate, rather than feeling like an accident with, at best, an improvised solution.

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