idk take your kid to see eighth grade By Amanda Hudgins • August 6th, 2018 Eighth Grade made me want to crawl out of my skin in a way that I haven’t felt since The Babadook but instead of a screaming child, it was middle school awkwardness
Minimalism and Collage in Minit By Andrew Bailey • August 6th, 2018 With each successive loop Minit prompts its player to consider what other seemingly standardized game mechanics would benefit from this same kind of microscopic lens.
Episode 3: Ghostbusters By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 5th, 2018 On tap for Episode 3: The Ghostbusters RPG, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Board Game and Goodman Games’ Into the Borderlands!
E-soterica Finding Peace Where I Can Get It By Alyse Stanley • August 2nd, 2018 These indie puzzle games have particularly calmed my mind, providing a soothing digital sojourn in this whirlwind news climate.
Exploits Feature Would the Real Dark Troopers Please Stand Up By Elijah Beahm • August 1st, 2018 Canon is a tricky thing, even for the people making it. Evidence: the new, streamlined Star Wars franchise’s continuity confusion.
E-soterica In Space Everyone Knows You’re Gay By Alyse Stanley • August 1st, 2018 During an interstellar war for humanity’s future, three women find themselves inexplicably drawn toward one another. It’s destiny. Or maybe just physics.
Feature Excerpt For She Has Tasted the Fruit By Katherine Cross • August 1st, 2018 In a universe divided by Sith and Jedi, Knights of the Old Republic 2’s Kreia forges her own philosophy in one of Star Wars’ rare instances of feminism.
Feature Excerpt The In-game Museum By Daniel Fries • July 26th, 2018 Devoid of physical limitations, games examine what museums represent and what they soon could be.
Mini-Operas in Grind and Glitch By Levi Rubeck • July 26th, 2018 How grindcore taught me to appreciate Tierra Whack.
Feature Excerpt Skin Deep By Malindy Hetfeld • July 25th, 2018 For a modern racial allegory, David Cage repeats a lot of history’s mistakes
