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Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Bioshock Infinite shows Elizabeth sitting at a desk in front of a portrait of Marx.

Forgiving, and Forgetting, Bioshock

By Elijah Beahm • November 5th, 2025

If there is one constructive lesson that can be learned from Bioshock Infinite, it’s the crucial, fundamental need for forgiveness.

Here Be Monsters
A screenshot from Silent Hill f shows the protagonist fighting a giant, discombobulated version of a teenage schoolchild.

The Limits of Powerlessness: On Silent Hill f

By Emma Kostopolus • November 4th, 2025

The game appears to want to have it both ways – “run and hide” in tandem with “stand and fight.”

Thousand Year Old Campfire

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 3rd, 2025

It belongs in a museum! Oh, wait, that doesn’t work here…

A screenshot of I'm Not a Robot, with the first level: a Captcha with a grey box and the reCAPTCHA logo and blue recycle arrows and a smaller tick box next to the text I'm not a robot

The Absurdity of Proving You’re Not a Robot

By Bee Wertheimer • October 31st, 2025

When tasked with breaking up with your AI girlfriend, the chatbot repeatedly gaslights you.

This Mortal Coyle
Art from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow shows a close-up on an older woman holding her nose while a younger woman looks on from further behind.

Mildred Walker from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow

By Deirdre Coyle • October 29th, 2025

Meet Mildred Walker, better known as Mother Mildred, the local wise woman considered by many to be a witch.

Past Presence
Hornet stands at the edge of a cliff of greenery, holding her pin sword.

Silksong is for Speedrunners

By Dr. Emily Price • October 28th, 2025

Through its moveset, level design and overall resource economy, Silksong teaches you, on your first journey through it, how to be a speedrunner.

Murder She Wrote: A Board Game of Strategy and Pursuit

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 27th, 2025

Send in the clones!

A photograph of one of the floppy disks for installing Doom on MS DOS

How Much of a Game Can You Change Before it Stops Being Itself?

By Claribel F. Millgress • October 24th, 2025

We can make and unmake Doom at our pleasure.

Feature Excerpt
A spread from Sepulcher featuring coffin-shaped playing cards with different parts of skeletons on them.

Grave Goods: Sepulchre and the Game as Object

By Orrin Grey • October 24th, 2025

There is the hobby of playing board games, and then there is the entirely separate hobby of buying board games.

Feature Story
A screenshot from myhouse.wad shows sunken living room rendered in the style of Doom II.

In The End, It Always Comes Back to the Old House

By J.M. Henson • October 23rd, 2025

No matter how far we wander, we always come back to that house, in the same way that in my restless dreams, I too revert to the embrace of my childhood home.

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