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Monsters Built by Human Hands

By Hyacinth Nil • October 20th, 2022

A close reading of Lakeview Hotel.

Letter from the Editor
Two skeletal soldiers, one with a sword and shield and the other with a spear.

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2022

By David Shimomura • October 17th, 2022

Let the spoopy season begin!

Colonial Marines

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 17th, 2022

“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

Insert Coin
Screenshot from the game Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, featuring the "Meateor", a meteor that looks like a meatball streaking through the sky, with the text "New opportunities. Organs for everyone." at the bottom

Heart, Kidney, Pancreas, Shard

By Madison Butler • October 13th, 2022

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator creates tension between the inherent violence of its premise and the player’s enjoyment of the gameplay, offering an engaging critique of capitalism.

Forms in Light

How to Build a Racetrack

By Justin Reeve • October 13th, 2022

Adopting a broader view as to what constitutes architecture can be a worthwhile endeavor.

Open World
A screen shot from the first Grand Theft Auto, with the main character making a phone call and the train tracks wait behind. I'm going to be honest it was hard finding a shot or video of anyone going on to the tracks, given how deadly they are, but this seemed pretty close

Gouranga

By Edward Smith • October 11th, 2022

I hate this idea that games have gotten so big they basically replace your life – and tell you you’re not getting the most out of them and doing everything unless you let them replace your life.

Casting Deep Meteo
The protagonist of the videogame Severed Steel holds two pistols akimbo as she crouches down low, ready for all takers.

The Fresh and Vertical

By Levi Rubeck • October 11th, 2022

Lately Levi’s been picking through Severed Steel, a title still honing in on the parkour and the shooting but sidestepping long set pieces for a series of puzzle rooms and time dilation.

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 10th, 2022

A very serious educational course on the medieval period, not an RPG.

Another Look
A screenshot from the overworld of The Legend of Zelda showing pixellated brush and the corner of a large blue lake. Several menacing creatures patrol land and water.

End of Zelda

By Yussef Cole • October 7th, 2022

Perhaps in Hyrule, which was apparently inspired by the local woodlands of its designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, we could grasp some of that same fantasy, that escape.

Made of Lines and Vines
Screenshot from the game Outriders, featuring a bright partially overcast sky behind adobe towers, weathered and with exposed knobs of wood

Beneath a Village’s Surface

By Saniya Ahmed • October 5th, 2022

A distinct style of a building in Outriders led to curiosity, then unexpectedly unraveled a worrisome story that was brewing all along.

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