Unwinnable

No Accounting for Taste

Socialism in One Solar System

By Adam Boffa • February 3rd, 2020

The Outer Worlds knows exactly what’s wrong with capitalism. So why doesn’t it talk about what might come next?

The Tide Pulls at My Heart: Night Tide (1961) on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • February 3rd, 2020

Dreamy, desolate and drunk on its particular place in both space and time, Night Tide is a film like no other.

Gingy's Corner

Wander No More/Written in the Sky

By Gingy Gibson • January 31st, 2020

This week, let’s talk about two visual novels and a few problems inherent to writing short VNs.

E-soterica

The Quiet Sleep is a Messy and Emotional Tower Defense Game

By Khee Hoon Chan • January 31st, 2020

Our emotions are messy and complex enough – perhaps the pared-down approach of The Quiet Sleep would help us confront – and sit with – the full spectrum of our human emotions.

Here's the Thing

Enough With G1 Already!

By Rob Rich • January 31st, 2020

Hasbro and Takara have been giving fans and collectors G1-inspired homages for years, and while it was neat at first, it’s getting pretty of stale

Forms in Light

Some Things Last Forever

By Justin Reeve • January 30th, 2020

The Outer Worlds provides a reminder that quick fixes often become permanent solutions when it comes to architecture.

A crew of people in a purple lit arcade.

The Beautiful Lies of 198X

By Jeremy Signor • January 29th, 2020

Video games let us escape our lives and give us fake victories that have no bearing on reality. But there’s power in the lie.

Another Look

Spectating at the End of the Universe

By Yussef Cole • January 29th, 2020

Mobius Digital’s Outer Wilds rebels against the shortcomings of traditional perspective.

Feature Excerpt

Searching for Kirby(‘s) Air Ride, a Game that Does(n’t) Exist

By Don Everhart • January 28th, 2020

Nostalgic for a game that never existed, Don Everhart considers how he has carried a torch for the never-released Nintendo 64 version of Kirby’s Air Ride. Chasing an online game swap for the Gamecube game Kirby Air Ride may have been the next best thing.

Here Be Dragons: Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters (2005)

By Orrin Grey • January 28th, 2020

Fans of people yelling, bad CGI, and characters repeating themselves – and one another – your proverbial ship has come in.

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