Here Be Monsters Loading the Gun: Simulation and Realism in Horror Mechanics By Emma Kostopolus • February 8th, 2024 Horror in game mechanics arises from the difference in how we interact with things that are realistic versus things that absolutely are not.
Friction Burns Returning to Rhythm in A Highland Song By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2024 There’s a lot to learn from falling down mountains.
This Mortal Coyle Goth Femmes of Elden Ring By Deirdre Coyle • February 6th, 2024 Ranking Elden Ring’s goth femmes from “least” to “most” goth.
Ninja City: Drug Demon Disco By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 5th, 2024 Grab your shuriken, paisans!
I Played It, Like, Twice Death is Not the End: How to Win and Die Trying in Doomseeker By Orrin Grey • February 2nd, 2024 This is a game where it actually does pay to die, if you can do it when you mean to.
Exploits Feature Is it Alt to Like Call of Duty These Days? By Elijah Beahm • February 1st, 2024 Somehow, some Call of Duty games seem to have slipped out of the mainstream…
Past Presence Romanticize Your Life! By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2024 If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 29th, 2024 Beware the minions of the Insect God!
Funeral Rites Collaborating on Microcosmic Adventures in Mausritter By Phoenix Simms • January 25th, 2024 Mausritter has come a long way from its homebrew session and zine days.
Metro: Exodus and Learning a Lesson Too Late By John Anderson • January 24th, 2024 I harbored no desire to hasten to the decomposition of Moscow, but the hopelessness of it dissuaded me from making much more than a feeble effort to avoid it.
