Interlinked Mending the Gardens of History By Phoenix Simms • October 8th, 2025 South of Midnight uses nature to underscore the ways that human care and legacies of hatred scar not just on a human-scale. We come from the dirt and eventually return to it.
Don't Stop Believing Bioshock 2 Asks You to Have the Faith of a Child By Elijah Beahm • October 7th, 2025 How far will you exploit others to achieve your own goals? And can you forgive others of their own misdeeds?
Hollow Knight, Silksong, and Notions of a Working-Class Underworld By J.M. Henson • October 6th, 2025 I too have been navigating the gauntlet of Pharloom.
Here Be Monsters Nightmare Logic and the Horrors of Confusion By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2025 Each person trapped in Silent Hill is seeing their own unique version of Hell, and only occasionally do those visions overlap.
Past Presence The Cookbook Theory of Trails in the Sky By Dr. Emily Price • October 2nd, 2025 Cooking serves the world of Trails as much as the player within it. It’s an irremovable part of the worldbuilding.
The Spectacle of Suffering By Zonghang Zhou • September 29th, 2025 Across the screen, pain is spectacle.
Discovering Imagination with Zork By Richard Kelly • September 26th, 2025 As the industry moved forward, I was moving back, submerging myself in a world I was too young to even remember.
Feature Excerpt The Butterfly Affect By Dayten Rose • September 26th, 2025 Themes that preoccupy the makers of games are magnetic to the image of the butterfly: spectacle, attention, illusion, mortality, autonomy.
Feature Story I Don’t Want to Be This Kind of Animal Anymore By Ashley Schofield • September 25th, 2025 You’re not crazy. You’re just different. You have a vast soul. This life is all you have, but it’s still something. You have to keep going.
