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A screenshot from the overworld of The Legend of Zelda showing pixellated brush and the corner of a large blue lake. Several menacing creatures patrol land and water.

End of Zelda

By Yussef Cole • October 7th, 2022

Perhaps in Hyrule, which was apparently inspired by the local woodlands of its designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, we could grasp some of that same fantasy, that escape.

Made of Lines and Vines
Screenshot from the game Outriders, featuring a bright partially overcast sky behind adobe towers, weathered and with exposed knobs of wood

Beneath a Village’s Surface

By Saniya Ahmed • October 5th, 2022

A distinct style of a building in Outriders led to curiosity, then unexpectedly unraveled a worrisome story that was brewing all along.

Interlinked

Acquiring Phantomilian

By Phoenix Simms • October 5th, 2022

Games have their own form of communication and language and, in some instances, they include constructed languages, or conlangs, that are foreign to their players too.

Here Be Monsters
A stone frieze depicting a winged figure holding unbalanced scales.

An Introduction and Manifesto

By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2022

The horror of videogames, and a lot of horror more generally, rests on the fear of time.

WHPA-13: Weird Heroes of Public Access

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 3rd, 2022

Click that switch over to the UHF dial!

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Crop of the cover of Monster Mayhem, a painting featuring your classic mosters like Sexy Ghost, Necktie Werewolf, Dog Collar Dracula, Too Many Teeth Mummy, and Jock Zombie

Offensive Stereotypes: Monster Mayhem Rises from the Crypt… But Maybe Shouldn’t

By Orrin Grey • September 30th, 2022

Despite its cartoony demeanor, Monster Mayhem is no different from White Wolf’s RPGs, and its approach is… not exactly sensitive, even for 2007.

This Mortal Coyle
The protagonist Bailey Ward from the videogame Switchcraft. She is a young woman with long auburn hair shaved on one side and an olive skin tone. She is casually dressed and smiling in what looks like the interior of a cafe.

Ruby Blue from Switchcraft

By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2022

Ms. Blue’s aesthetics speak volumes: she wears librarian clichés – cardigans and tortoiseshell glasses – with bodycon animal prints, statement jewelry and long, blue nails.

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