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.
The Burnt Offering Shakespeare in Wrist Blades By Stu Horvath • September 4th, 2015 The people who are making the new Macbeth movie are the same people who are making the Assassin’s Creed movie. Yes, you read that right.
Senses All Turned Up: An Interview with Stephen Graham Jones By Stu Horvath • August 31st, 2015 “It’s not just being scary on the page, it’s being scary in a way that plugs into the psyche of the audience.” Stu interviews horror writer Stephen Graham Jones
Feudal Pakistan By Shahryar Rizvi • August 17th, 2015 Shahryar Rizvi connects the history of past and present Pakistani politics to forging his own dynasty in Crusader Kings II.
The Burnt Offering The Hard-Boiled Heritage of True Detective By Stu Horvath • August 14th, 2015 Think True Detective Season Two is too complicated? Go watch NCIS, then.
How Wolfenstein Graduated from World War II to Vietnam By Bryant Francis • July 16th, 2015 Bryant Francis examines literal truth and story truth in Wolfenstein: The New Order.
