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Here's the Thing
A tablet, keyboard, and gaming mouse are laid out among several of offerings in Microsoft's Game Pass library.

Grappling With Game Pass

By Rob Rich • February 14th, 2023

A brief sojourn with Xbox Game Pass helps Rob come around on the concept of online game streaming.

Brain Scratch
Screenshot from the game Babbdi, where a low-poly character hunches over a table with blank eyes and two teeth in a concrete room with someone sleeping on a bare mattress in the back, saying "we will get out of babbdi"

Bibbdi Babbdi Boo

By Steven Nguyen Scaife • February 13th, 2023

I’m constantly struck by how little a game needs in order to evoke places and processes, how crude its materials can appear without compromising clarity of vision.

Forms in Light
A screenshot from the videogame Dishonored shows a cobblestoned street winding its way through city buildings lit by dusky sun filtered through a smog-filled sky.

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

By Justin Reeve • February 10th, 2023

Dishonored is a game which harkens back to a time when protection for working people was practically nonexistent, ruthless exploitation being the rule.

Screenshot from the trailer for God of War Ragnarok, where Kratos sits by a fire sharpening a knife, staring pensively towards the viewer, while the shadow of someone looms behind in the snow, half man or half animal, or a boy carrying an animal...

All The World’s A Stage

By Jonathan Fenn • February 8th, 2023

Theatrical allusions don’t need to hit you over the head with high-concept meta-textual narratives in order to be effective.

Casting Deep Meteo
Artwork from the table-top RPG MÖRK BORG depicting a two-headed dragon-like creature. One head has the antlers of a 12-point buck.

Mapping MÖRK BORG’s Cruel Delights

By Levi Rubeck • February 8th, 2023

Then it hit me, like a dirty lightbulb in an ancient office that’s gone undisturbed for far too long – I can draw these rooms.

Friction Burns
Promotional art for Dwarf Fortress, Featuring a trio of dwarves decked out for dungeoneering, with horned helmets, a torch, mining equipment and weapons, heading towards a fungi forest and an ominous fortress

When Dwarves Won’t Do What You Want Them To

By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2023

Friction is FUN.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from the Poke?mon franchise showing a trainer standing in tall grass, backed by their team of Poke?mon.

“The Abundant Nature”

By Jay Castello • February 7th, 2023

The only thing I remembered from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s advertisement cycle was the shot where they cut to a deeply bland outdoor scene overlaid with the phrase in question.

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