Sneaking Things into Games By Steven Thornton • August 9th, 2018 Alongside the official game secrets and easter eggs so often collected in blog lists and video countdowns, are the fingerprints of an entire team: hidden in plain sight.
Chasm Emerges from the Depths By Levi Rubeck • August 7th, 2018 Chasm ticks all the boxes, but at the same time suffers from its own success. I want it to be just a little bit more.
Elon Musk’s iPod Submarine Throws So Much Shade By Khee Hoon Chan • August 7th, 2018 Elon Musk, patron saint of mansplainers everywhere, now has another achievement he can unabashedly lay claims to.
Revving the Engine Mine 18 By Stu Horvath • August 6th, 2018 Mile 18, a game about an abandoned Appalachian mining town, explores local history through videogame development. We talk to lead developer Lacey Lansaw.
Minimalism and Collage in Minit By Andrew Bailey • August 6th, 2018 With each successive loop Minit prompts its player to consider what other seemingly standardized game mechanics would benefit from this same kind of microscopic lens.
Episode 3: Ghostbusters By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 5th, 2018 On tap for Episode 3: The Ghostbusters RPG, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Board Game and Goodman Games’ Into the Borderlands!
E-soterica Finding Peace Where I Can Get It By Alyse Stanley • August 2nd, 2018 These indie puzzle games have particularly calmed my mind, providing a soothing digital sojourn in this whirlwind news climate.
Exploits Feature Would the Real Dark Troopers Please Stand Up By Elijah Beahm • August 1st, 2018 Canon is a tricky thing, even for the people making it. Evidence: the new, streamlined Star Wars franchise’s continuity confusion.
E-soterica In Space Everyone Knows You’re Gay By Alyse Stanley • August 1st, 2018 During an interstellar war for humanity’s future, three women find themselves inexplicably drawn toward one another. It’s destiny. Or maybe just physics.
Feature Excerpt For She Has Tasted the Fruit By Katherine Cross • August 1st, 2018 In a universe divided by Sith and Jedi, Knights of the Old Republic 2’s Kreia forges her own philosophy in one of Star Wars’ rare instances of feminism.
