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A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with Indy's arm mid-punch on a nazi's face in the desert

They Called Me Slurs While You Dragged Their Bodies

By Autumn Wright • February 25th, 2025

This isn’t about the Nazis.

A pile of various old media formats including a CD, cassette tape, game boy cartridge, 3.5" floppy disks, and more

Physical Media and Collective Nostalgia

By Paige Eldridge • January 30th, 2025

But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.

The Adventurer’s Guide to Exercise

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 20th, 2025

Gotta build some muscles to swing a sword (and some cardio to run from monsters)!

Rookie of the Year
Artwork from Loma's "How Will I Live Without a Body" shows a drawing of a human head blooming from the end of a long, leafy vine.

This is How it Starts to Move Again

By Matt Marrone • January 16th, 2025

How Will I Live Without a Body? is not a record you can fully grasp in one sitting, whether you’re nine years old or 46.

Interlinked
Close-up on a microscopic COVID-19 spike protein with its distinctive crown of spikes.

Status Ailment Era

By Phoenix Simms • January 14th, 2025

Do status ailments and their treatments in games perpetuate toxic mythology about diseases and disabilities?

Here's the Thing
Key art from Farming Simulator 17 shows a large tractor sitting in a freshly mowed field.

Fighting Depression With Farming Simulator

By Rob Rich • December 13th, 2024

It wasn’t until recently that Rob figured out why Farming Simulator became his go-to game during a particularly rough mental patch.

Forms in Light
A beautifully symmetrical photo taken from the inside of a machiya looking out onto a verdant green garden.

Change and Resistance

By Justin Reeve • December 12th, 2024

Nothing stays the same for long, regardless of how much resistance there may be along the way, whether in terms or tradition or basic beliefs.

Noah's Beat Box
A close-up photo of three insulin syringes.

Fear and Loathing in Whitechapel

By Noah Springer • December 11th, 2024

I was somewhere deep in Whitechapel, south of Shoreditch, sitting in the ER for the fourth hour in a row, when the drugs began to take hold.

Rookie of the Year
Three baked good-themed stuffed animals from the Cookeez Makery smile empty-eyed into the distance.

Easy-Bake Coven

By Matt Marrone • December 5th, 2024

These stuffed-pancakes and stuffed-cakes are soft, pillowy demons designed to replace – with an ostensibly innocuous twinkle – not only all baked goods . . . but all of us.

A screenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2 with a dreamy forest scene except it's dark and streaked with moonlight and the dark is in the center looking dark but majestic

Shadows of Worlds Unto Themselves

By Jonathan Fenn • December 3rd, 2024

A big limitation of videogame ecosystems is their strong focus on predation and conflict.

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