Interlinked Advancing Together By Phoenix Simms • September 5th, 2024 Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation emerged as a way to address some enduring colonial-imperialist assumptions in the 4X classic series Civilization.
Cover Reveal: Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark! By Orrin Grey • September 4th, 2024 Peel your skin off and have a seat!
Here Be Monsters Spoopy, Not Spooky: The Intersections of Cozy Games and Horror By Emma Kostopolus • September 4th, 2024 While on the surface they’re fairly dissimilar, there’s pretty substantial evidence that the Venn Diagram of spooky vs. cozy game enjoyers has a large middle section.
Exploits Feature The Most Diverse Fascists You’ll Ever Meet By Elijah Beahm • September 3rd, 2024 Let’s have more women spaceprison guards, too, while we’re at it.
Deities & Demi-Bros By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 2nd, 2024 Enter: the Neon Lord himself!
All The World’s A (Fighting) Stage By Alex J. Tunney • August 30th, 2024 What is novel to me is how these concepts help to add additional context to the stages and how it provides a new way to interact with the world of Street Fighter.
Run It Back 1972 By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 30th, 2024 “Filth is my politics” isn’t just a catchy slogan. It’s a recognition that there is no version of us that will be accepted by a moralist fascist society.
Noise Complaint Exploring New Heaven with Inter Arma By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2024 Richmond-based metal five-piece Inter Arma have long charted their own path between metal sub-genres. On their sixth record New Heaven, they may have transcended simple categorization altogether, and are much more interesting as a result.
Performing Through Failure to Hit that Hi-Fi Rush By Fred Banks • August 28th, 2024 There is a performance to games, from reaching an in-game objective, or literally a developer-created achievement as an extra bonus for a particular feat or choice in a game.
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Chimeras and Changelings in Cuckoo (2024) and Longlegs (2024) By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2024 Perhaps there’s something going on here; a thematic resonance, a moment in the zeitgeist, that will be teased out with the passage of time, subsequent viewings, and the work of other scholars.