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Past Presence
A screenshot from Blue Prince shows a view through an open door, which looks into a room with another open door, which looks into a room with another open door that has the silhouette of a man standing just inside the frame.

Big/House

By Dr. Emily Price • December 2nd, 2025

Why is it now that we’re spending so much time in-game wandering through houses?

Run It Back
A stone bridge across a blue river.

1964

By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 26th, 2025

Even though Hemingway doesn’t quite know what to do with them, each woman present in this book (whether in the text or its making) is undeniably influential on him and his work.

Feature Excerpt

Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Heart and Soul of Lack of Love

By James Tocchio • November 25th, 2025

Peace and environmentalism in a Dreamcast-exclusive evolutionary life-sim.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – November 2025

By David Shimomura • November 21st, 2025

The long dark season is upon us and we’ve one fewer light.

Here's the Thing
A skeleton stands, jaw agape, amongst several tombstones in a screenshot from Shadow Tower.

I’m Having a Bad Time (and Loving it)

By Rob Rich • November 13th, 2025

While on a “classic Fromsoft” binge of the King’s Field series, Rob finally returns to Shadow Tower’s exceptionally hostile halls – and having a great bad time.

Forms in Light
Two members of the Yiga Clan crouch menacingly in this screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Strangers on the Road

By Justin Reeve • November 12th, 2025

They’ll suddenly turn on you mid-conversation, revealing themselves to be a secret assassin in disguise, dedicated to your demise.

Totally Generic
Wendy runs through the red-lit bowels of a crashed spaceship in this still from Alien: Earth.

Alien: Earth

By Natasha Ochshorn • November 11th, 2025

It’s difficult to be scared of something that you’re maybe rooting for.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Herdling shows herders and herd traversing a mountain slope, even taller peaks rising tall in the distance.

Forward to Where?

By Jay Castello • November 7th, 2025

If Herdling wants to make a point about humans being an integral part of the ecosystem, it needs both humans and ecosystems.

Rookie of the Year
A photograph of two pairs of small hands drawing on either side of a large pad of paper, a Monopoly game board set off to the side.

Marronopoly

By Matt Marrone • November 6th, 2025

The activity that has best defined the outsized influence Monopoly now has over our lives happened on a recent Saturday.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Bioshock Infinite shows Elizabeth sitting at a desk in front of a portrait of Marx.

Forgiving, and Forgetting, Bioshock

By Elijah Beahm • November 5th, 2025

If there is one constructive lesson that can be learned from Bioshock Infinite, it’s the crucial, fundamental need for forgiveness.

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