Feature Excerpt What Lies Beneath: Subtextual Storytelling Techniques in Videogames By Jeff Spoonhower • December 2nd, 2019 Jeff Spoonhower discusses how stories can be told during gameplay through the use of powerful subtextual audio-visual techniques.
Feature Excerpt Games About Death (Are Stuck In a Rut) By Mark Hill • December 2nd, 2019 Why has the treatment of death in certain indie games become so predictable?
A Very Special Human Being: Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 Despite an elder James Cagney being miscast, latex masks and plenty of melodrama, the Lon Chaney biopic still has some of that old Hollywood magic.
Consumed in the Fire of His Own Making: Apprentice to Murder (1988) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 “Apprentice to Murder isn’t an undiscovered classic…but it’s better than its two-and-a-half-star average on Letterboxd would suggest.”
Because Bigger is Better: RoboCop (1987) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2019 “Our modern morass fits right in with the RoboCop…”
A Beautiful Pattern: Knives Out and What’s Wrong with America By Orrin Grey • November 25th, 2019 “The people who were hitting Rian Johnson with death threats on Twitter over making The Last Jedi “too political” are going to love this one, is what I’m saying.”
Holiday Gift Guide 2019 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 25th, 2019 This week, we’re getting ready for the holidays and wanted to help give you a leg up on your gifts for your friends and family around the gaming table (and maybe yourself too, let’s be real).
Lake of Voices By Gingy Gibson • November 22nd, 2019 Loss is inevitable. How do you get through it, then?
Fallout 3, The Outer Worlds, and the Megaton Problem By Jeremy Signor • November 22nd, 2019 Binary choices in games persist today even as RPGs get more and more open. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Jim Zub, Part 2: Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 19th, 2019 Part two of our interview with Jim Zub! We chat about his D&D comics, the Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty box set and learn he does a pretty mean Rick Sanchez impersonation.
