Rookie of the Year The Ballad of Matt’s Island By Matt Marrone • October 9th, 2025 I’m weaving elements of comedy and horror together as I pass along.
Interlinked Mending the Gardens of History By Phoenix Simms • October 8th, 2025 South of Midnight uses nature to underscore the ways that human care and legacies of hatred scar not just on a human-scale. We come from the dirt and eventually return to it.
Don't Stop Believing Bioshock 2 Asks You to Have the Faith of a Child By Elijah Beahm • October 7th, 2025 How far will you exploit others to achieve your own goals? And can you forgive others of their own misdeeds?
Hollow Knight, Silksong, and Notions of a Working-Class Underworld By J.M. Henson • October 6th, 2025 I too have been navigating the gauntlet of Pharloom.
See You in Hell: Watching Spawn (1997) in Ultra HD for Some Reason By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2025 In ’97, the capes-and-tights movie formula had arguably yet to be cracked.
Here Be Monsters Nightmare Logic and the Horrors of Confusion By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2025 Each person trapped in Silent Hill is seeing their own unique version of Hell, and only occasionally do those visions overlap.
Staring at Japan’s “Fantasy Industrial Complex” at Anime NYC 2025 with Matt Alt By Luis Aguasvivas • October 2nd, 2025 “Anime is another form of drag for the human race.”
Past Presence The Cookbook Theory of Trails in the Sky By Dr. Emily Price • October 2nd, 2025 Cooking serves the world of Trails as much as the player within it. It’s an irremovable part of the worldbuilding.
Exploits Feature El Vampiro By John Goodrich • October 1st, 2025 Have you ever watched the 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula and thought I wish there were more Gothic twists?
