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Noah's Beat Box
A pair of fake chompers you'd find in an orthodontist's office, both sporting braces bound with colorful rubber bands.

Peak Orthodontist Music

By Noah Springer • July 10th, 2025

If you were being tortured by some dentist around the end of history, check out the Orthodontist Music playlist.

A rendering of Geller's book floating over a red background, the cover of the book looks like a lush overgrowth on top of a long abandoned lattice

A Record for Our Times: Jacob Geller has a Book

By Luis Aguasvivas • July 9th, 2025

Even if the book is partly inaccessible as a form to the non-Geller fan, How a Game Lives is infused with depth and beauty beyond its gorgeous presentation.

Casting Deep Meteo
A screenshot from Shrine's Legacy shows the entrance to a stone structure guarded by four large gargoyles.

You Know PAX: PAX East 2025

By Levi Rubeck • July 9th, 2025

Still a helluva weekend, but it’s impossible to ignore the widening margins of the expo floor and the lack of big publisher presence.

Totally Generic
A still from Mountainhead shows the four main characters arm-in-arm in day-glo orange ski coats on the side of a snowy mountain.

Mountainhead

By Natasha Ochshorn • July 8th, 2025

The bros up at Mountainhead are going to leave their bodies behind.

Land of Eem

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 7th, 2025

What lies beneath the Mucklands? The Underlands, naturally!

Area of Effect
Key art from Citizen Sleeper 2 shows and android figure floating alongside a black cat in a yellow void.

Leaving, Staying

By Jay Castello • July 4th, 2025

Leaving the Eye is almost impossible. You’re just going to have to make the most of it.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Dante's Inferno shows a bird's eye view of the inside of a church, portions of which are on fire. At one end, a lone figure stands in a pure white shaft of light, holding a massive blade.

Dante’s Inferno Was Visceral to a Fault

By Elijah Beahm • July 3rd, 2025

Is it possible to be a devil’s advocate when you’re condemning a game on Hell?

A screenshot from Masterpiece with Sonic in Super Mario World but he's in a hole and there's a gravestone that says RIP Sonic

Yearning for Meaning: Maddy Thorson’s Super Mario World Romhacks and the Metamodernist Impulse

By Sara Hovda • July 2nd, 2025

It may not be perfect, but it’s perfect for Maddy Thorson, for Sonic, and for the player.

Here Be Monsters
DOOM Eternal's Marauder stands staring down steely-eyed at the viewer, horns curved up towards the stormy sky.

The Thinking Man’s Doom: Why The Marauder Rules, Actually

By Emma Kostopolus • July 2nd, 2025

Dark Ages is a sadly watered-down version of the thing I loved most about the controversial Marauder: how much it made me think about how to play.

Exploits Feature

The Softboiled Allure of Kyle Hyde

By David Silbert • July 1st, 2025

Masculinity rarely sees this sort of moral culpability, especially from a white, straight man who is used to shooting a gun.

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