Super-Gat By Holly Green • November 12th, 2015 “Saint’s Row IV far surpasses the competition, emerging as the best execution of what we understand a superhero to be.” Holly Green on the best superhero game.
The Road to an Android Future goes through the Uncanny Valley By Charles Singletary • November 9th, 2015 Science Fiction of old oft envisions humans coexisting with androids as does Quantic Dreams recently revealed game Detroit, but Japan may have taken the first step toward that reality with their android actress.
Head to Head: Jem and the Holograms By Megan Condis • November 9th, 2015 The long-awaited live-action Jem and the Holograms movie was, sadly, a flop. But how does it compare to the source material?
A Collection of Apocalypses: An Interview with Paul Tremblay By Stu Horvath • November 5th, 2015 “When horror is done well, I love the sense of awe, of holy-shit-what-is-that…” Stu talks with horror writer Paul Tremblay on his influences, past and future.
Nailbiter & The Real Murder City By Charles Singletary • November 2nd, 2015 In the red splashed pages of the comic book Nailbiter, a detective hunts the evil that has shaped Buckaroo, Oregon into a birth place for serial killers. In Murder City, a detective chronicles the real live serial killer capital in London, Ontario.
Paint-Eater: Urban Art in Digital Worlds By Heather Alexandra • October 29th, 2015 “We’ll be waving our controllers around, miming activity that we clearly don’t understand.” Heather Alexandra on gaming’s failure to understand street art.
Tron Bonne and the Family Business By Brian Crimmins • October 22nd, 2015 The Misadventures of Tron Bonne shows us how we can reconcile our personal interests with an impersonal economic reality. It all starts by rejecting capitalism.
Cassilda’s Songs By Bill Coberly • September 17th, 2015 “…the keys of the piano, now transformed from their pedestrian black-and-white into a dozen nameless colors, spinning and dancing and laughing with me…”
Painting With Ghosts By Declan Taggart • September 15th, 2015 Séances, hauntings, a prince of Persia, a publisher, spirit mediums, audiences, mystery, uncertainty: Explore Declan Taggart’s Victorian Glasgow.
