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Here's the Thing
A moodily lit screenshot from Quake II shows several soldiers patrolling and underground compound.

Literally Nobody Asked For This

By Rob Rich • May 15th, 2025

Microsoft showed off a version of Quake II “generated with AI” and Rob is just… so fucking tired…

Forms in Light
A "divine beast" from Breath of the Wild, a giant stone bird soars through the sky, illuminated by a mystical blue electricity.

Tears of the Technocracy

By Justin Reeve • May 14th, 2025

The connection between technology and corruption found in Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild couldn’t be clearer.

Dialogue
Black and white glitch art suggesting a surging wave of binary code.

A Dialogue with Nick Capozzoli

By Autumn Wright • May 13th, 2025

“[M]ake fun of the video game industry at your own peril because whatever stupid thing is happening to us in that moment, it’s going to happen to you in about, say, a year and a half’s time.”

Just Riffin’

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 12th, 2025

Sometimes you just gotta shoot the breeze, ya know?

A cropped screenshot from FEAR in a dimly lit room with a gun pointed at a closed door and a whole lot of tension

What’s A Gun For?

By Wallace Truesdale • May 6th, 2025

Guns bring violence, and violence is frightfully unpredictable.

Here Be Monsters
SHODAN from System Shock gazes ominously at the viewer, electric green and purple beams of light shooting outward from her face.

The Banality of AI Hell, or: We Were Worried About the Wrong Thing

By Emma Kostopolus • May 6th, 2025

I know you’re watching me type this, Copilot.

Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 5th, 2025

Embark on a quest for the most perfect green paper!

A screenshot from Supermarket Together where the player is holding a price scanner and pointing it at a shelf full of boxes of Bees cereal, rice, water bottles, and green cans

Supermarket Together and the Paradox of Work Games

By Alexander B. Joy • April 30th, 2025

You can pet an astonishingly realistic cat that rests outside the break room.

Artwork for Mortal Kombat 2011 of yellow-robed ninja Scorpion holding a sword and kicking a rock surrounded by lava and sparks

Konstant Kommotion: The Reckless Realms of Mortal Kombat

By Alex J. Tunney • April 28th, 2025

Enter Kronika, a time god.

The Job

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 28th, 2025

Let’s get rich!

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