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Forms in Light

Some Things Last Some of the Time

By Justin Reeve • November 3rd, 2020

Why are some buildings taken apart and recycled while others are simply renovated?

Always Autumn

There Are Many Ways to Apocalypse.

By Autumn Wright • November 2nd, 2020

As much as it is about the extraordinary ways in which people live their normal lives, Adventure Time is comprised of endings.

Another Look

Sing It Out

By Yussef Cole • October 30th, 2020

Lovers Rock, one of the films in Steve McQueen’s brilliant new “Small Axe” anthology about the UK’s West Indian community from the 1960s through the 1980s, is full of a palpable and irresistible energy.

Rookie of the Year

It’s Complicated

By Matt Marrone • October 29th, 2020

After five years, my original Series 0 Apple Watch broke.

Letter to a Heroine

Dear Krile

By Melissa King • October 28th, 2020

Dear Krile,

While you might not get as much attention as your fellow Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you’ll always be my favorite member.

Checkpoint

Colin Kaepernick, Madden NFL 21 and the Football Future That Wasn’t

By Ben Sailer • October 27th, 2020

After punting on social justice for years, Electronic Arts recently patched Colin Kaepernick back into Madden NFL 21. Don’t rush to pat them on the back.

The Fail Cycle

Write Your Own Pendragon Review

By Declan Taggart • October 26th, 2020

Pick your path to the fall of Camelot.

Revving the Engine

Robot Champions: Fight! For Your Life!

By Stu Horvath • October 26th, 2020

We seldom have a clear view on how difficult it is to make videogames. Partly this is our own fault – most folks will always suspect that making games isn’t “work” the same way that digging ditches is.

World Tour

Indonesia

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2020

That’s why Gone With the Wind is/was revered and why we’re inundated with period pieces that refuse to meaningfully interrogate the class/colonial violence that this splendor is built upon.

Traces

Ghost Stories

By Diego Nicolás Argüello • October 23rd, 2020

In fact, you could consider it an anthology of sorts – one on my relationship with horror games, and on ghost stories. I’ll let you decide if they’re fictional or not.

The Beat Box

Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2020

By Noah Springer • October 21st, 2020

Last year, I was overwhelmed by all the quality drops over the full season, and this year, September 25 seemed to mark the beginning of the season with an amazing selection of releases I just can’t do justice.

Feature Excerpt

Dungeons & Dollhouses

By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2020

I’m not going to claim that society didn’t yet have those concepts, but I hadn’t been exposed to them. I came up in small towns in the Midwest; gender norms were pretty rigid.

Feature Excerpt

A Friend at the End of the World

By Adam Goodall • October 20th, 2020

But what space do you and your camera occupy in this city? You’re far from an observer, an outside eye; rather, Faulkner positions the player as a site of tension in this world falling apart.

Feature Excerpt

Death is Not the End

By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020

The inhabitants of the Dark Souls universe seek a hero to rekindle the first flame, for without it, they believe, all life will cease. But they are wrong.

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2020

By Stu Horvath • October 15th, 2020

This issue is packed!

No Accounting for Taste

Patterns in the Ivy

By Adam Boffa • October 9th, 2020

What can city-building games tell us about climate change?

Here's the Thing

Alone in Duskers

By Rob Rich • October 8th, 2020

Rob reminisces about his favorite roguelike, which is also one of his favorite horror games.

Forms in Light

Architectural Improvisation

By Justin Reeve • October 7th, 2020

A look at the repurposed architecture of Metro: Exodus.

The Heavy Pour

With Friends Like These: A Wasteland Verse of TrickyPixie83

By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2020

“I take damage, I take damage!”

Another Look

Tragedy Erased

By Yussef Cole • October 5th, 2020

“Bury my mother, pale and slight, bury my father, eyes shut tight! Bury my sisters, two by two, and then when you’re done, let’s bury me too!”

Rookie of the Year

Neighborhood Must-Watch

By Matt Marrone • October 2nd, 2020

“I was both there and not there during a gunfight that both did and did not tear through my quiet slice of Astoria.”

Collision Detection

We Can’t Afford to Log Off

By Ben Sailer • October 1st, 2020

Twitter isn’t just a time-wasting hellsite. It’s also the world’s worst multi-user dungeon.

Revving the Engine

Project Witchstone: The World is Yours

By Stu Horvath • September 30th, 2020

Has the day finally when a videogame that can rival the narrative freedom of a tabletop roleplaying game?

This Mortal Coyle

Roach from The Witcher

By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2020

Roach is always there for me.

The Fail Cycle

Looking Back While Moving On

By Declan Taggart • September 29th, 2020

Family lives for nostalgia, but it’s not saying that things used to be better in the good old days.

Traces

There’s No Youth Anymore

By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 28th, 2020

Deadly Class, the thrill of lying to your parents and the fading of freedom.

Letter to a Heroine

Isabelle

By Melissa King • September 28th, 2020

Melissa King appreciates Isabelle from Animal Crossing.

Self-Insert

Niche Interests

By Amanda Hudgins • September 25th, 2020

“Sometimes, in fiction, you write about your experience so vividly, so precisely, that it could not have come from anyone but you.”

World Tour

Finding the poetry in The Burial of Kojo

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 24th, 2020

An existential wail, followed by a look at Ghanaian film The Burial of Kojo.

The Beat Box

Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2020

By Noah Springer • September 23rd, 2020

In honor of the new old Tony Hawk game, we’ve got hip hop to grind to.

Feature Excerpt

Watching Myself Die

By Phillip Russell • September 22nd, 2020

On Blackness in The Last of Us

Feature Excerpt

Four Brief Discussions of Cultist Simulator and Planescape: Torment

By Violet Adele Bloch • September 22nd, 2020

A sketch.

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – September 2020

By Stu Horvath • September 21st, 2020

Your guided tour to this month’s table of contents.

Here's the Thing

That $70 Sword of Damocles

By Rob Rich • September 14th, 2020

With an impeding ninth video game console generation looming on the horizon, people have begun buzzing (read: arguing) about a proposed game MSRP of $70. Now Rob wants to weigh in.

Forms in Light

Nothing Lasts Forever

By Justin Reeve • September 14th, 2020

Everything falls apart.

Always Autumn

Fall is an Ending and it is Ending.

By Autumn Wright • September 11th, 2020

“Autumn is the ending of things and we are in its third stanza.”

Rookie of the Year

Parallel AIs

By Matt Marrone • September 10th, 2020

Person of Interest > Westworld

The Fail Cycle

GeoGuessr: A Travelogue

By Declan Taggart • September 9th, 2020

“This would be so much easier if we just Googled the restaurant,” I say. She nods, slowly, sympathetically. “But we’re not filthy disgusting cheaters, are we? Declan?”

Traces

The Ones Who Understand

By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 8th, 2020

“It turns out that no matter how much you’ve written in your lifetime, very few people will consider your work if it’s in a foreign language.”

World Tour

England

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 4th, 2020

Oluwatayo starts his tour on his home turf of England with the film Bait and the latest album from Charmpit.

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