Area of Effect The Play Space By Jay Castello • August 13th, 2024 Wandrer.earth logs all the roads you’ve walked on (via a Strava integration). There is no way that these numbers will move considerably, ever, but seeing where I’ve been is compelling enough.
Rookie of the Year My Neighborhood is Literally Evil By Matt Marrone • August 9th, 2024 A lot of shows are filmed in my neighborhood, but in the past few years, nothing has made its presence felt as much as Evil.
Interlinked Bio Domes By Phoenix Simms • August 8th, 2024 Dragon Age: Veilguard is being released during a period of global climate change, which makes some players view the game and its devotion to world building with an ecological slant.
Here Be Monsters HR is Having a Field Day: Still Wakes the Deep as the Lovecraftian Banal By Emma Kostopolus • August 7th, 2024 Still Wakes the Deep is essentially just being stuck in Hell with all your worst coworkers.
Mind Palaces Booking It (Vol. 2) By Maddi Chilton • August 6th, 2024 The thrilling conclusion to Maddi’s quest to read the entirety of the International Booker Prize longlist.
Past Presence Most Media Memory-Holed the Pandemic. Not 1000XRESIST By Emily Price • August 2nd, 2024 Playing 1000xRESIST means stepping into the shoes of an observer to millions of people finding out in real time they’ve been exposed to a disease there’s no way to stop.
Musings Don’t Look Up By Blake Hester • July 31st, 2024 When you tell people, “Don’t look up,” you essentially are telling them, “Don’t enjoy where you live.”
Noise Complaint Better Vibes With Better Lovers By Ben Sailer • July 30th, 2024 Ben goes to see metalcore supergroup Better Lovers and comes away with a renewed affection for his city and the power of the riff.
Funeral Rites Smelting RPGs Down to Simple Bliss with Outcast Silver Raiders By Justin Reeve • July 26th, 2024 “Perhaps out of a sense of satire or perhaps just because I really like horror movies, metal and the occult, I wanted to create something that would have been absolutely forbidden in my house.”
Feature Excerpt The World Outside the Glass was Almost Gorgeous By Will Borger • July 25th, 2024 The first step to solving a problem is admitting a problem exists, and the role you played in causing it. None of us are innocent.