Feature Excerpt The In-game Museum By Daniel Fries • July 26th, 2018 Devoid of physical limitations, games examine what museums represent and what they soon could be.
Feature Excerpt Skin Deep By Malindy Hetfeld • July 25th, 2018 For a modern racial allegory, David Cage repeats a lot of history’s mistakes
Episode 2: Call of Cthulhu By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 22nd, 2018 In Episode 2 of the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu and John discuss Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu, Tales from the Loop, the board game Azul and much more!
Unwinnable Monthly – July 2018 By Stu Horvath • July 20th, 2018 July’s issue is crammed full of interesting stories on KotOR2‘s Kreia, Detroit: Become Human, museum games and much more. Stu has the rundown for you here.
When the Pros Take Over By Michael Tresca • July 18th, 2018 Will the professional polish of Dungeons & Dragons streaming shows create an unexpected hurdle for new players getting into the game?
Daughters Split Open Their Satanic Chrysalis By Levi Rubeck • July 18th, 2018 This country has had no shortage of crusty street preachers, split-lip soothsayers crawling across glass-littered asphalt to cough up a truth few are brave enough to bear.
How Wolfenstein II Lost Its Head Over Toxic Masculinity By Elijah Beahm • July 17th, 2018 Shooters are directly linked with the precise sort of violent, cold, rage that toxic masculinity brings about; especially with id Software’s games resting as a vanguard of heavy metal.
War on Words: Mobile v. Handheld By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2018 It’s why the recent trend to enforce the artificial barrier between “mobile” and “handheld” is so tenuous and dangerous.
Florence and Collaborative Play By Daniel Schindel • July 13th, 2018 This was a deeper connection; the two of us were actively involved in an act of creation, the kind of authorship of a story that only a video game can provide.
Destiny 2’s Quiet Moments Do the Story’s Heavy-lifting By Yussef Cole • July 13th, 2018 While much of Destiny 2’s narrative is delivered to the player in bombastic cutscenes, its strongest storytelling can be found in the game’s margins, through the quieter mutterings and conversations of its non-playable characters.