No Accounting for Tastes All Roads By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2019 Despite being set over a century apart, Deadwood and Breaking Bad end up in surprisingly similar places.
The McMaster Files The Rose Colored Galaxy By Jason McMaster • September 10th, 2019 There are points when playing Rebel Galaxy Outlaw that Jason loses track of, not where he is, but when he is.
The Heavy Pour Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019 GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.
The Glass Delusion: The Most Popular Madness of the Middle Ages By Robin Mazzolla and Jen Sisco • September 4th, 2019 Imagine, one day, you feel that your body is made of glass…
Ferris Wheels and a Murder Castle: The Chicago World’s Fair and H.H. Holmes By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 4th, 2019 Jen looks at the horrible history of America’s first serial killer: H. H. Holmes.
Another Look Making Lore Personal By Yussef Cole • September 4th, 2019 Yussef sees a reflection of his own relationship with games in others’ deep dives into the minutia of their mythology.
Collision Detection How an 8-Bit Football Franchise is Still Kicking By Ben Sailer • August 30th, 2019 A local competition helps Ben rediscover his love for Tecmo Super Bowl.
What To Do With All This Girldick By Autumn Wright • August 28th, 2019 “Gaming as a trans person can kinda suck. Some might say games are bad. But what if, dear readers, games are good?”
Greed and the Need to Feed – The Story of the Colorado Cannibal, Alfred Packer By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 27th, 2019 Perhaps the only thing more powerful than greed is hunger…
Feature Excerpt The Year Videogames Blew Up Shanghai By Mark Hill • August 26th, 2019 Unlike most first-person shooters, these two titles make you think about the very real city destroyed in the wake of your protagonist’s outsider crusades.