Feature Story Making a Mess in Kaiju No. 8 By Van Dennis • June 25th, 2024 Kaiju No. 8 is a wonderfully refreshing series: a show about someone in their early 30s who finds out that their dream is still achievable, even if it’s by unconventional means.
Here's the Thing ACAB Includes Martin Brody By Rob Rich • June 13th, 2024 Roy Scheider’s depiction of Amity Island police chief Martin Brody is charming, sweet, and charismatic. But that doesn’t make him any less of a bastard.
Forms in Light The First City By Justin Reeve • June 12th, 2024 What do the settlement of Plainsong in Horizon Forbidden West and the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük have in common?
Always Autumn The Worst Case Scenario By Autumn Wright • June 11th, 2024 It’s worth asking whether people in the past thought they lived at the end times. It’s worth more to realize that despite the recurring sentiment, we do.
Casting Deep Meteo Zazen Boys and the Healing Riff By Levi Rubeck • June 7th, 2024 Zazen Boys, even after so long, is clearly not afraid to confront multiple shades of life, breaking time and time signatures while remaining achingly human.
Area of Effect Supergiant’s Scrappier, Better Underworld By Jay Castello • June 6th, 2024 So much of Hades, and by extension Hades II, can be seen in the primordial soup of Pyre.
Rookie of the Year If You Can’t Wed It, Reddit By Matt Marrone • June 5th, 2024 Reddit seems to actually care when no one else does.
Interlinked Intergenerational Design By Phoenix Simms • June 4th, 2024 Despite all the technical aspects of game design, it’s human involvement that makes the process vibrant and organic.
Here Be Monsters I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Terror of Tamagotchi By Emma Kostopolus • May 31st, 2024 This is not a cute piece of nerd nostalgia, but a brutal PsyOp designed to drive us to the brink of despair.
Mind Palaces Booking It (Vol. 1) By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2024 Maddi sets out to read the International Booker Prize longlist, 13 books from around the world that were translated into English within the last year.
