The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – August 2019 By Astrid Budgor • August 28th, 2019 Metal waits for no one, and Astrid’s got a pile of records to share after a recent cross-country move.
Documentary Sunday Betting on Zero By Megan Condis • August 27th, 2019 Multi-level marketing schemes may sell products, but people are really buying in for the prospect of “opportunity”.
Greed and the Need to Feed – The Story of the Colorado Cannibal, Alfred Packer By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 27th, 2019 Perhaps the only thing more powerful than greed is hunger…
Feature Excerpt The Year Videogames Blew Up Shanghai By Mark Hill • August 26th, 2019 Unlike most first-person shooters, these two titles make you think about the very real city destroyed in the wake of your protagonist’s outsider crusades.
Feature Excerpt What Makes a Game Trash? By Van Dennis • August 22nd, 2019 While it’s easy for a game to fall into being trashy, it takes a bit of lucky circumstance for a game to be fully trash.
Feature Excerpt I Wanna Be Your Dog By Jeremy Signor • August 22nd, 2019 That awkward moment when giving up your free will to a supercomputer-powered hive mind brings out your inner sub.
Problematic Bodies By Jeremy Signor • August 21st, 2019 Tired tropes make gay men the butt of way too many jokes in games. But we can find power within the problematic bodies they inhabit.