Epistolary Voicemail By Levi Rubeck • May 31st, 2018 Enjoying a recent New Yorker online poetry experiment where Natalie Diaz and Ada Limón are explicitly communicating with each other, and we are shepherded on the atmosphere that extends between them.
How I Almost Gave Up On Games By Amanda Hudgins • May 29th, 2018 I’m not one of those named faces of GamerGate, the women for whom, for better or worse, GamerGate has become a part of their identity and brand. If you think back to those most visibly affected, the ones who had it worse, I’m nobody.
The Game That Made Me Question What It Means to Be Me By Kyle Bradford • May 28th, 2018 All Our Asias is inclusive. It’s ours, even if we don’t recognize it to be.
Democracy 3 and the Absurdity of Government By Daniel Schindel • May 25th, 2018 No matter how much players derive pleasure from a challenge, the inherent appeal of sims is the illusion of control that they grant us.
The Board Soul Let’s Get Physical By Jeremy Signor • May 24th, 2018 Catacombs may be a game about flicking discs, but it brings the action of dungeon crawling to life in surprising, intuitive ways.
Revving the Engine Rogue Universe By Stu Horvath • May 24th, 2018 Unwinnable talks to Must Games about their forthcoming mobile space strategy game Rogue Universe.
Dhalsim Needs No Haduken By Gurmeet Singh • May 24th, 2018 What does the mysterious yogi actually believe?
The Loss Levels By Daniel Fries • May 23rd, 2018 The name, The Loss Levels, is a pun on the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2, called The Lost Levels when it finally released in the United States. It’s hard to know whether you’re supposed to laugh or cry.
Our Hearts Have Long Been Closed By Sam Desatoff • May 23rd, 2018 “We’ve fallen so far down the blood-soaked rabbit hole that now even the most violent of protagonists are wondering if we’ve gone too far.”
Poetry at the Crossroads of Self and State By Levi Rubeck • May 23rd, 2018 Sharif, an American poet whose parents were exiled from Iran, is taking stock of her homes and houses in this and all of her work