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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.

Totally Generic
Detail from a drawing of an opulent hotel framed by palm fronds, fruit, and other lush vegetation.

The Listeners Draws a Line at Naziism

By Natasha Ochshorn • August 13th, 2025

You cannot accommodate Nazis without tainting any good you try to accomplish.

Safe Travels

By Alexander B. Joy • July 25th, 2025

River King prefers allusive décor that tells stories via implication, and its save points are no exception.

A still from The Beaches of Agnes, a film by Agnes Varda, with a comic drawing of the director sitting on a very tall director chair in a red jumper staring at the water and a seagull

Does Taste Matter?

By Farouk Kannout • July 17th, 2025

Living human beings, unlike works of art, don’t have easily definable endings to encapsulate what they represent.

A rendering of Geller's book floating over a red background, the cover of the book looks like a lush overgrowth on top of a long abandoned lattice

A Record for Our Times: Jacob Geller has a Book

By Luis Aguasvivas • July 9th, 2025

Even if the book is partly inaccessible as a form to the non-Geller fan, How a Game Lives is infused with depth and beauty beyond its gorgeous presentation.

Hambone Goes to the Library

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 30th, 2025

The local library has fantasy books and air conditioning, what else do you need for a great summer?

Mind Palaces
A photograph of turquoise seas under a perfect blue sky, a white-sand beach stretching across the frame.

The Indefinable Allure of a Summer Reading Program

By Maddi Chilton • June 27th, 2025

If a summer reading program hadn’t presented itself to me, I would have gone looking for it anyway, because I am a sucker for this shit.

Interlinked
The title screen for Kara Stone's Known Mysteries, a delightfully low fi design that hearkens back to the video graphics of the 90s.

Designing for Land and Body

By Phoenix Simms • June 4th, 2025

Kara Stone is one of the game designers to watch when it comes to designing in an eco-conscious manner.

A crop of the cover for Stream Big with the subtitle text The triumphs and turmoils of Twitch and the stars behind the screen

If You Stream It, They Will Come: On Nathan Grayson’s Stream Big

By Luis Aguasvivas • May 8th, 2025

Twitch is not only big business, it is also a place where millions get their news, and for better or worse, socialize.

Delinquent Elementals

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 21st, 2025

A treasure trove of counter-culture!

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