Unwinnable

The title text for The Light of Mount Horrid, done in brush strokes and text that appears to be creeping out of the woods

Rolling The Light of Mount Horrid to Life

By Levi Rubeck • April 11th, 2023

From page one the lore of Mount Horrid is spelled out clearly and deliciously, unflinching in welding together escapades and caesura.

Screenshot from the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us, featuring Kansas City rebellion leader Kathleen addressing some imprisoned collaborated with a wry and unsettling smile on her face

The Last of Us on HBO

By Amanda Hudgins • April 11th, 2023

The Last of Us is not the greatest story in video games.

Area of Effect

Moving Sitting Still

By Jay Castello • April 11th, 2023

Skipping between the individual characters’ stories requires continent-hopping, back and forth over and over across the map.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 10th, 2023

Did you hear there is a Dungeons & Dragons movie?

Friction Burns

The cover art for Terra Nil: Reclaim the Wasteland, featuring a lush valley being terraformed while surrounded by barren rocky mountains

Press Restart for Planet Earth

By Ruth Cassidy • April 7th, 2023

Terra Nil offers a similar kind of escapist fantasy to other city builders – just from another angle.

Rookie of the Year

A top-down map of the landscape of Hyrule from Breath of the Wild.

Breath of the Elevator

By Matt Marrone • April 7th, 2023

My son went right back down the elevator again. Then he went up again. Then down. Then up. Then, at last, he opened the map, traveled to another shrine, and went down that elevator.

Screengrab for the title card of Dorktown's The History of the Seattle Mariners documentary, with the title at the top with "The supercut by Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein" below and a chart of years, baseball players, graphs, and various other data spread below

It Just Continues: Dorktown’s The History of the Seattle Mariners

By Van Dennis • April 6th, 2023

Despite going over 40 years without ever reaching the mountaintop, the Mariners have a history worth recognizing, and one that can make you reconsider what a team “means.”

Interlinked

The face of the Katamari king surrounded by rainbow circles rippling outward.

Rolling Up

By Phoenix Simms • April 6th, 2023

We Love Katamari and the series it’s a part of is about the alchemy of persistence at its core. You take what’s available to you and turn it into a star.

Collision Detection

Light the Beam

By Ben Sailer • April 5th, 2023

As a lapsed and reformed Sacramento Kings fan, Ben learns that sometimes backing a loser is the winningest thing you can do.

I Played It, Like, Twice...

Crop from the box cover for Legend of Drizzt the Adventure Series Board Game, with an angry Drizzt with long hair and fur mantle and flowing cape as he slices through some enemies with his trademark scimitars and his black panther companion and best friend growling in the background

A Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike: Navigating the D&D Adventure System Board Games

By Orrin Grey • April 4th, 2023

Anyone who has been following along here for very long knows that dungeon tiles are one of my very favorite parts of any dungeon crawl game, and the ones for the various D&D Adventure System games have their distinctive pluses.

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