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Forms in Light
An overgrown, post-apocalyptic city environment from The Last of Us. A rusted city bus covered in vines and greenery features prominently.

After Us

By Justin Reeve • May 11th, 2023

There’s a remarkably prevalent misconception that if people suddenly disappeared from the planet, the environment would eventually return to how it was before we started transforming the landscape.

Casting Deep Meteo
Art from Dordogne shows a girl in a wide-brimmed pink hat traversing a sunny forest with a small black cat. The cat looks frightened but the girl is calm.

Beats and Feets at PAX East 2023

By Levi Rubeck • May 10th, 2023

PAX East 2023, mostly the same as it ever was. (A place with cool games!)

Rookie of the Year
A cityscape built in Minecraft. There are buildings, a baseball diamond, and a rather nice beach!

It Takes a Villager

By Matt Marrone • May 9th, 2023

Are the villagers idiots? Or am I the village idiot?

Interlinked
A close-up of Daisy Fitzroy's face in Bioshock Infinite. She is a determined-looking young black woman with tied-back braids.

Less Punk and More Funk

By Phoenix Simms • May 5th, 2023

What would a character like Daisy Fitzroy have been capable of if her script in Bioshock Infinite were handled by an African American writer with a Steamfunk sensibility?

Mind Palaces
A scene from Dune shows the silhouette of a man looking out across a vast expanse of organized troops in a desert landscape.

Honor Among Adaptations

By Maddi Chilton • May 4th, 2023

A faithful adaptation can be satisfying, but an unfaithful adaptation can be invigorating.

Here Be Monsters
A dimly-lit hallway extends forward into the unknown, lined with identical doorways on each side.

Videogames and the Global Haunted House

By Emma Kostopolus • May 3rd, 2023

The internet is now a place where creations such as SCP: Containment Breach can exist because of the cumulative creative and intellectual work of an entire community of people.

Self-Insert

Cisswap

By Amanda Hudgins • May 2nd, 2023

Known under many tags (including Rule 63, genderbending, gender swap, Always a Different Sex), cisswap is an fandom device most commonly used to make male characters women.

Run It Back
A promo image for John Waters' Serial Mom showing the title character posed in front of a white picket fence in a cheery polka-dot dress. She smiles sinisterly while holding a knife above a pristine cherry pie, though the knife seems to already have some of the red filling smeared on the blade. Unless...

1994

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 28th, 2023

The year of John Wayne Gacy’s execution, Jeffrey Dahmer’s baptism and John Waters’ suburban comedy Serial Mom.

Eyeing Elsewhere
A close-up of Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil 4 Remake. He's got a chiseled jaw, a cleft chin, and a fantastic head of blonde hair that falls into his eyes just so.

What Are Ya Buyin’?

By Phillip Russell • April 27th, 2023

From what I’ve played of Resident Evil 4 Remake thus far, I’ve come to feel that while I am immensely enjoying the game, I wonder why it exists.

Noise Complaint
Three hands reach towards a slate-blue sky. They seem to be illuminated by a the light of a deep orange sunset, or perhaps a fire.

Calling In a Noise Complaint

By Ben Sailer • April 26th, 2023

After four and a half years of writing the Collision Detection column, Ben starts something new by going back to something old.

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