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I Played It, Like, Twice...
Press art for Warhammer Quest Blackstone where a Knight in armor with a fancy sci fi monocle is flanked by floating skulls with lights and peering in the dark towards his enemies

Too Big to Succeed: Warhammer Quest and the Imposing Scope of Blackstone Fortress

By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2025

Blackstone Fortress is an elaborate, ambitious, impressive game, but it was also the first of the Warhammer Quest installments to become too intimidating for me.

4K disc release art for Outland on the left and Red Planet on the right. Outland has a colorful painting of a space suited miner spiraling out, and red planet has a mostly red image of an astronaut's helmet reflecting the planet mars

No Place for Heroes: Surviving in Spaaaaaaace with Outland (1981) and Red Planet (2000)

By Orrin Grey • November 19th, 2025

Both look and sound probably about as good as their source material would ever allow them to, which honestly isn’t bad in either case.

A blizzard rages on a mostly white image but there are hints of a blue station in the snow, with a closed door, cables blowing in the wind, and a latter up to the roof

The White Vault: Enter A Ruthless Blizzard Where Mystery And Horror Collide

By Kevin Capon Goldszmidt • August 14th, 2025

A slow burn that unravels the mysteries of its universe.

Funeral Rites
An illustration of a blond woman unlocking her front door. Via a cross section of the house, we can see horrors have been wrought across her downstairs living room by a tentacled creature making its way upstairs.

No Magic, No Gods: Infinite Worlds & Infinite Horrors

By Emma Kostopolus • April 29th, 2025

“Create stories. Create art. Create music. Anything and everything you create yourself has value and the more of it exists, the better off we all are.”

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A promo picture of all the components of Warhammer 40 K Fireteam with a big urban map and many miniature marines and warriors as well as dice and cards scattered about

In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future There is Occasionally Very Small War: Fireteam and Warhammer Underworlds

By Orrin Grey • December 17th, 2024

Fireteam brings many of the elements that make Underworlds tick to the grimdark 40k universe, to varying effect.

A screenshot from The Substance with Demi Moore staring into a mirror with bold red lipstick and a red dress, gold earrings, and an intense look on her face

You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024)

By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024

One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A picture of all the bits of Starquest Arcadia Build a Bot expansion, with some space pirate like minis with guns and computers as well as a red board and smaller space ship boards to move the minis around on

Space is the Place: Starcadia Quest and the Mystery of Aesthetics

By Orrin Grey • July 16th, 2024

It may be unsurprising to learn that Starcadia Quest is pretty much the exact same game as Arcadia Quest but in spaaaaaaaaaace!

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