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Art for Max Payne 1 and Max Payne 2 in black and white, with the titular cop on the left holding a gun and on the right embracing a much shorter woman

So Much for Being Subtle

By Edward Smith • March 21st, 2025

That rhythmic, never-rising, never-falling delivery creates a kind of base reality for the world of Max Payne.

Here's the Thing
A top-down view of the Caves of Qud map, rendered in all its ASCII glory.

Graphics Are Never Everything

By Rob Rich • March 19th, 2025

While being able to visually enjoy (or even just parse) a game’s visuals are important, Rob isn’t a fan of just how much importance people sometimes place on them.

Dialogue
A screenshot from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth shows Sephiroth swing a sword in a wide arc as he stares stoically forward.

A Dialogue with Nic Reuben

By Autumn Wright • March 18th, 2025

[Pauses to move cat]

Key art for Citizen Sleeper 2, where the android sleeper is floating with a lot of wires, tools, trash, and a black sleepy kitty

I’m Not Meant To Know Every Train Schedule

By Wallace Truesdale • March 17th, 2025

The longer I stared, the more convinced I became that the train was an assault against logic.

Liminal Horror Deluxe

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 17th, 2025

Is that the streetlight buzzing, or an insectoid monster wanting to lay eggs in my eye?

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A photo of the halloween version of Boop called BOOooop with an orange bed with pumpkins and spooky stuff as a board and meepeles as white cats with jack o lanterns, black cats in which hats, and ghostly cats as well

Herding Cats: Thinky Thoughts and Scaredy Cats in BOOoop

By Orrin Grey • March 14th, 2025

Boop!

A photograph of the board game Root as it's being played with a map of a forest full of blue green and oramge meeples along with dice and a lone raccoon as well as cards and charts explaining the factions

The World’s Cutest Power Politics Simulator

By Alexander B. Joy • March 13th, 2025

Root’s cute and cuddly aesthetic belies a cutthroat power politics simulator with a sophisticated understanding of asymmetric conflict.

Area of Effect
A photograph of a lush landscape in Argentina features a stunningly massive waterfall emptying into a large lagoon flanked by green trees.

Worldbuilding

By Jay Castello • March 11th, 2025

I’m building worlds in my brain and I’m being in worlds in real life.

A cropped screenshot from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth with Cloud and Sephiroth standing in a muddy field on a rainy night with their big swords out flanked by two Shinra soldiers and a diffused light behind them

I Too Bought a PS5 for a Single Game, I Too Bear Great Regret

By Matthew Weddig • March 10th, 2025

“It’s not like you’ll never use it,” my mom said.

Don't Stop Believing
Several people prostrate themselves in front of a dark lone central figure in a screenshot from El Paso, Elsewhere.

El Paso, Elsewhere Reminds Us Shame Is Not Godly

By Elijah Beahm • March 6th, 2025

Your heart and intentions do matter, as well as your response.

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