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Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 6th, 2023

We’re hitting the road!

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A screenshot of Raziel from Legacy of Kain: Defiance. He is a skeletal wraith and has a scarf covering the bottom half of his face.

Don’t Fear the Reaver

By Phoenix Simms • November 3rd, 2023

Raziel, the tragic wraith protagonist of the Soul Reaver series, contains within his arc a nuanced portrayal of how an energy vampire is made and unmade.

Screenshot of a close-up of Sam Porter Bridges, eyes staring just off camera and tears streaming down his face

Sam Porter Bridges Redefines the Anti-Hero

By John Anderson • November 2nd, 2023

It is undeniable that most games center around violence in some shape, and due to the hours the average game takes to complete being well into the double-digits, the protagonist will have racked up quite a monstrous body count before the credits roll.

Here Be Monsters

A Different Sort of Vampire: The Endemic Issue Behind Redfall’s Critical Flop

By Emma Kostopolus • November 2nd, 2023

Redfall is an excellent test case for how capitalist gamer culture has turned some gaming consumers into a particularly odious, never-satisfied group of soulsuckers.

Mind Palaces

I Will Come Up With a Punny Title I Promise

By Maddi Chilton • October 31st, 2023

Somewhere along the way in Redfall’s development someone should have asked: What is this game, and why are we making it?

The Abyss of Hallucinations

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 30th, 2023

Babalon awaits!

Funeral Rites

Campfire Carnage Conjures the Real Monsters

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 25th, 2023

Campfire Carnage writer Valkyrie T. Loughcrewe sees potential for “campsite as being for horror games what a dungeon is to fantasy,” an iterative space through which you can tell all sorts of stories.

A screenshot from Bit.Trip Rerunner with vertical rectangle main character Commander Video crossing a finish line as fireworks pop off in the distance

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: How RERUNNER Continues The Bit.Trip Saga

By Elijah Beahm • October 24th, 2023

We have already seen levels that have blown our minds, have made us laugh, and have made us say “You can do that?!”

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Killing the Vampire

By Elijah Gonzalez • October 24th, 2023

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 exorcizes an age-old symbol of stagnation and exploitation to foreground a story about systemic change.

The Ancestral Trail

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 23rd, 2023

Can you imagine waiting a fortnight for anything in this day and age? I can’t!

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