Revving the Engine Creative Constraints in Unbound: Worlds Apart By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2022 Unbound: Worlds Apart looks like a typical puzzle-platformer. However, thanks to some creative design decisions, it’s much more than that.
Feature Story Team Unwinnable Fireside Chats By David Shimomura • August 26th, 2022 This month, David chats with Unwinnable co-owner and vice publisher, Sara Clemens.
Feature Excerpt The Horror of Finding a Home By Andrei Filote • August 25th, 2022 Path of Exile doesn’t end when the story concludes but when the player’s will to imagine the next character fails.
Feature Excerpt The Chaos Detective By Daryl Li • August 24th, 2022 The Return of the Obra Dinn supports a detective fantasy by casting the player into the role of textual interpreter who seeks to organize the chaos into coherent solution.
Nonhuman Meditations A Dog and Her Friend and the Lockdown in Between By Alyssa Wejebe • August 11th, 2022 Alyssa imagines Isabelle’s friendship with Doomguy while remembering the first year of lockdown.
Here's the Thing The Nostalgia of “New DOOM” By Rob Rich • August 10th, 2022 Rob ruminates on the unexpected way that the new direction for DOOM panders to nostalgia.
Forms in Light Hell on Earth By Justin Reeve • August 9th, 2022 The levels in DOOM Eternal provide a reminder that despite being the predominant forms of architecture for the better part of a century, internationalism and modernism are not without their problems.
Casting Deep Meteo Riff and Tear By Levi Rubeck • August 5th, 2022 Levi comes not to bury the DOOMs, but to praise doom metal.
Rookie of the Year Wolfenstein 3X By Matt Marrone • August 4th, 2022 It’s amazing Matt grew up as well-adjusted as he did.
Interlinked Catharsis through Carnage By Phoenix Simms • August 3rd, 2022 Despite DOOM being about ripping and tearing your way through various hellscapes this iconic first-person shooter is (paradoxically) pure escapism and catharsis.
