The McMaster Files The Deal By Jason McMaster • August 14th, 2018 New life in the McMaster household brings with it a somber remembrance of friends past.
Another Look Hood Cyberpunk By Yussef Cole • August 7th, 2018 Cyberpunk stories don’t generally want, or need, to change society. It seems, rather, that they’re perfectly content partying in the rubble.
Feature Excerpt The In-game Museum By Daniel Fries • July 26th, 2018 Devoid of physical limitations, games examine what museums represent and what they soon could be.
Feature Excerpt Skin Deep By Malindy Hetfeld • July 25th, 2018 For a modern racial allegory, David Cage repeats a lot of history’s mistakes
Florence and Collaborative Play By Daniel Schindel • July 13th, 2018 This was a deeper connection; the two of us were actively involved in an act of creation, the kind of authorship of a story that only a video game can provide.
The Heavy Pour Our Town By Sara Clemens • July 13th, 2018 Nothing says summer like mystery, and the point-and-click adventure Unforseen incidents stirs up half-remembered recollections of murder cases and childhood towns.
Mixed CDs, Stolen By Amanda Hudgins • July 13th, 2018 14 disks in their slimline cases, carefully handwritten descriptions of each song — no more than 2 per artist. 100 songs.
Feature Excerpt Remembering Doom on SNES By Ben Sailer • July 12th, 2018 Doom for the Super Nintendo was an incredible feat of technical trickery. It’s also my favorite game of all time that I never want to play again.
Rookie of the Year Finding the Holy Grail. Again. By Matt Marrone • July 6th, 2018 The folk rock band The Innocence Mission has faded into obscurity, but its small, cult-like following continues to do some crazy things in the name of fandom. Or maybe it’s just me.
Documentary Sunday Instrumental Intimacies: An Interview with Dr. Melissa Littlefield By Megan Condis • July 3rd, 2018 Melissa Littlefield, the author of Instrumental Intimacies: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control, talks with Megan Condis about fashion technologies that can read our minds.
