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The title screen for A Solitaire Mystery shows the title in a classy serif font superimposed on a dark background with several question marks of various sizes.

An Evening with Solitaire Mystery

By Dr. Emily Price • September 4th, 2025

A Solitaire Mystery is not player-hostile, exactly, but player-neutral. Fitting, for a game about a game you play by yourself.

Run It Back
Detail from an early cover of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Autumn of the Patriarch shows the back-lit silhouette of a man leaning against the railing of a balcony.

1975

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 3rd, 2025

Even those who cling to thrones must die eventually.

Noise Complaint
The band Grails stands on the crest of a hill covered in reddish grasses and shrubs, cloudy blue sky behind them.

Exploring the Miraculous Existence of Grails

By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2025

Instrumental rock band Grails have released a studio album that’s impossible to perform live. Somehow, it’s decisions like this that have defined their success.

Feature Excerpt
A still from GODZILLA X KONG shows a roaring Godzilla with spikes of pink atomic energy erupting from his head and back.

A Godzilla for All Seasons

By Orrin Grey • August 28th, 2025

Pretty much everyone has a favorite Godzilla movie, they’re more than happy to tell you which one it is, and it could be absolutely any one of them.

Feature Story
In a snowy scene, a boy and his father walk alongside train tracks as a train approaches. The boy carries an electric typewriter.

Making Prince of Persia: A Family’s World War II Survival Memoir

By Charles H. Huang • August 27th, 2025

Replay is a genre defying graphic memoir that acts not just as a celebration of game development, but as a warning.

Feature Excerpt

Duck, Duck, Goose

By Samantha Trzinski • August 26th, 2025

“All hail the goose,” we say, to which the goose simply replies, “Honk.”

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – August 2025

By David Shimomura • August 21st, 2025

There’s a new doctor in town. And Godzilla.

Nonhuman Meditations
A screenshot from 1000xRESIST shows a woman in a motorcycle helmet staring stoically to the side. A dialogue box has a character called Fixer saying, "Watcher, we've been lied to."

And the Peabody Goes to 1000xRESIST: An Interview with sunset visitor

By Alyssa Wejebe • August 20th, 2025

Honoring this type of media has been a new development for the Peabody.

Here's the Thing
Art from The Thing Remastered videogame shows five people in arctic weather gear running through the snow from an scientific outpost, a tortured face taking up the majority of the sky behind them.

I Don’t Want to Pirate

By Rob Rich • August 20th, 2025

Software piracy can be a hot button topic at times, but sometimes corporations don’t give us any alternatives. Even when we want to avoid it.

Forms in Light
Link takes a flying leap of faith from a rock island in the sky in this screenshot from Tears of the Kingdom.

Plumbing the Depths

By Justin Reeve • August 19th, 2025

Suffering is a part of life that we try to avoid, occasionally despite ourselves, often on purpose, frequently to a fault.

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