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A screenshot from Chants of Senaar featuring clear green water flowing through canals with golden architecture and a lone character in the middle with a word bubble full of unique glyphs

The Communities Found Within Chants of Senaar

By B Cadigan • September 23rd, 2024

The decision by the developers to utilize real language science in creating these fictional languages goes an extra step in helping players really feel that unity.

MasterBook

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 23rd, 2024

That gum you didn’t like is coming back but you’re still not going to like it.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – September 2024

By David Shimomura • September 19th, 2024

RIP Game Informer, I loved you.

Machine: Impossible

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 16th, 2024

You’re in love with this city.

Forms in Light
A Japanese pagoda surrounded by cherry blossoms stands tall against the pale blue sky in a screenshot from Ghost of Tsushima.

Structures of Power

By Justin Reeve • September 12th, 2024

Architecture in the Taisho and Showa periods of Japan was a powerful tool for expressing national identity, asserting political power and disseminating propaganda.

Area of Effect
A photograph of the Rollright Stones showing a well-trod path curving alongside the stones.

Signalled Space

By Jay Castello • September 10th, 2024

The feeling of together-aloneness is the same in both Elden Ring’s digital world and the damp field of the Rollright Stones in real life.

His Majesty the Worm

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 9th, 2024

The only place to go is down!

Rookie of the Year
A screenshot from Stardew Valley shows the player's house surrounded by several verdant and lush vegetable plots.

(Couch) Potato Farming

By Matt Marrone • September 6th, 2024

I have no designs on being an actual farmer, but I like how productive I am as a fake one.

Interlinked
The hexagonal gameboard of Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation, each cell a different color.

Advancing Together

By Phoenix Simms • September 5th, 2024

Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation emerged as a way to address some enduring colonial-imperialist assumptions in the 4X classic series Civilization.

Here Be Monsters
A screenshot from Ooblets shows three cute little bubbas: a tiny radish, a skull-faced pink cow thing, and a tiny cactus.

Spoopy, Not Spooky: The Intersections of Cozy Games and Horror

By Emma Kostopolus • September 4th, 2024

While on the surface they’re fairly dissimilar, there’s pretty substantial evidence that the Venn Diagram of spooky vs. cozy game enjoyers has a large middle section.

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