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A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3's infamous bear sex scene, but it's just a picture of a bear with a sly desire in his eye and a wet nose

I Want to Make Love to a Bear: Sex, Society and Baldur’s Gate 3

By Adan Jerreat-Poole • May 29th, 2024

How might we reimagine our relationship to the environment – in our own context of climate change, deforestation, and mass extinctions – if we understood bear sex as a metaphor for falling in love with the natural world?

I Played It, Like, Twice...

a close up shot of the game Super Boss Monster, featuring a library area and a hideout area with minion meeples standing there as well as some dungeon room cards like Kobold Union and Puzzle Door

But Not Too Bold: Building a Better Dungeon in Boss Monster

By Orrin Grey • April 3rd, 2024

The real draw of both Boss Monster and Overboss is the low-res pixel art of side-scrolling dungeon rooms (in the former case) and top-down overworlds (in the latter).

I Played It, Like, Twice

A cropped image of the box art for Warhammer Doomseeker with those words in stylized text over a huge and ornate double-bladed ax

Death is Not the End: How to Win and Die Trying in Doomseeker

By Orrin Grey • February 2nd, 2024

This is a game where it actually does pay to die, if you can do it when you mean to.

I Played It, Like, Twice...

A crop from the cover for Ni no Kuni 2 the board game, with the title text laid over a cartoon image of a long dragon soaring through a partly cloudy sky over a quaint city below

A Question of Influence: Building Your Kingdom in Ni no Kuni II: The Board Game

By Orrin Grey • January 9th, 2024

In some ways, however, the simplicity of Ni no Kuni II: The Board Game is also part of its strength. It’s a game that’s easy to learn and quick to play. In a world full of overly complex titles packed with fiddly little tokens and pieces, it almost feels old-fashioned.

I Played It, Like, Twice...