Interlinked Acquiring Phantomilian By Phoenix Simms • October 5th, 2022 Games have their own form of communication and language and, in some instances, they include constructed languages, or conlangs, that are foreign to their players too.
Here Be Monsters An Introduction and Manifesto By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2022 The horror of videogames, and a lot of horror more generally, rests on the fear of time.
WHPA-13: Weird Heroes of Public Access By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 3rd, 2022 Click that switch over to the UHF dial!
I Played It, Like, Twice... Offensive Stereotypes: Monster Mayhem Rises from the Crypt… But Maybe Shouldn’t By Orrin Grey • September 30th, 2022 Despite its cartoony demeanor, Monster Mayhem is no different from White Wolf’s RPGs, and its approach is… not exactly sensitive, even for 2007.
This Mortal Coyle Ruby Blue from Switchcraft By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2022 Ms. Blue’s aesthetics speak volumes: she wears librarian clichés – cardigans and tortoiseshell glasses – with bodycon animal prints, statement jewelry and long, blue nails.
Assigned, (De)limited Desire Marissa Marcel, You Will Never Be Famous By Trevor Richardson • September 29th, 2022 The character is the actor, is the art, is the artist.
Dimensions There Swings a Skull Completes the Bigger Picture with Grim Tidings By Caroline Delbert • September 28th, 2022 How do you turn a tightly told jam game into something more? For Quinn K. and Conor Walsh, it was a creative challenge.
Friction Burns Finding The On-Ramp To Route Zero By Ruth Cassidy • September 26th, 2022 Kentucky Route Zero carries its own ghosts of its critical legacy. How do I get past that?
Revving the Engine 2020s Tech, 1980s Spirit By Ben Sailer • September 26th, 2022 Dykom Software’s twin-stick side-scrolling shooter invokes 80s geek culture nostalgia while hiding a few twists underneath an absurdist premise.
