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An 8-bit rendering of a pale blue teacup and saucer on a wooden countertop.

What We Make From the Ruins

By Phoenix Simms • March 8th, 2023

Phoenix chats with the lead game narrative designer of The Archipelago about writing a game that explores both the political and personal.

A cropped view of an illustration titled Connoisseurs of Prints by John Sloan, where an art gallery is full of onlookers dressed sharply with top hats and monocles with some very serious discussion of the artwork going on

Reviews Vs. Advertising: A Response to IGN’s Dan Stapleton

By Jed Pressgrove • March 7th, 2023

We live in a world where numbers carry weight. Why not use them as part of a commitment to genuine, divergent opinions?

Collision Detection
Colt, the protagonist of Deathloop, stands geared up and ready to fight.

Learning to Love Roguelikes with Deathloop

By Ben Sailer • March 7th, 2023

Ben plays Deathloop and finally gets roguelikes, showing that sometimes all it takes for a genre to click is a change of context and perspective.

James Wallis Interview

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

Board games!

Made of Lines and Vines
A crop of the box art for the Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting Al-Qadim, with a large shirtless djinn menacing a hero in a turban and robe just trying to get by on his little horse

One Thousand and One Excuses

By Saniya Ahmed • March 3rd, 2023

Orientalized media and tales aren’t replacements for actual people.

Here Be Monsters
A figure in a spacesuit explores a yellow-hued alien landscape.

Dead Space’s Unsettling Colonialism

By Emma Kostopolus • March 2nd, 2023

If you’ve been reading this column, like, at all, you know that praise must always be coupled with loving criticism.

A screenshot of the trailer for Persona 5, showing a cell phone in a hand, the screen bearing a singular image of an eye with a star in the middle and many black lines blasting out from the center

Persona 5: Technology and The Body  –  Through The Looking Glass

By Jenny Zheng • February 27th, 2023

We should reject the desire for firm rules, singular stories.

The Unspeakable Oath

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 27th, 2023

Don’t break the oath!

A screenshot from Unsighted, where a large mechanical fish in wearing a bandana around their collar is relaxing at a pond with the player, both holding fishing rods, a little kitty between them watching in anticipation

Finding Time in a Dying World

By Evelyn Grey • February 23rd, 2023

It’s only possible to save the world when we look to the environment and other creatures that don’t directly concern us.

Funeral Rites
A colorful drawing of several dinosaurs in pulpy sci-fi space uniforms engaging in battle with a robot horde.

Capturing Wonder and Play in Kosmosaurs

By Phillip Russell • February 23rd, 2023

Diogo Nogueira’s most recent release, Kosmosaurs, harkens back to the classic aesthetics of pulp science fiction novels, but with a twist – dinosaurs!

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