Dancing to the Drama on TikTok By Amanda Hudgins • July 15th, 2019 No editorial has ever grasped the weirdness of some Gen-Z kids dancing in the corpse of a closing J.C. Penney while a teenage girl scream-sings the Bishop Briggs song “River.”
Fuck-’em-Up By Davis Cox • July 15th, 2019 The latest fucking-em-up title is My Friend Pedro, a sidescrolling shooter focused on high-flying leaps and a plethora of ricocheting bullets.
Freedom is the Lance By Levi Rubeck • July 12th, 2019 I dream of the actual sense of commanding space and time through piloting a vehicle
The McMaster Files Putting the “U” in Trauma By Jason McMaster • July 12th, 2019 In the vein of Dwarf Fortress and Rim World, Barotrauma players make their own stories. And an uncanny number of them end in death.
Here's the Thing I Gave Up on Dark Souls to Play Dragon’s Dogma By Rob Rich • July 11th, 2019 Rob has always had a love/hate relationship Dark Souls, but it wasn’t until recently playing Dragon’s Dogma again that he realized why.
Bear Bodies By Jeremy Signor • July 10th, 2019 When representing masculine characters, videogames default to chiseled muscles. But those who fancied different body types still had something to latch onto.
Rookie of the Year I Beat Bethesda By Matt Marrone • July 10th, 2019 Matt achieved just about everything in the “Early Access” version of The Elder Scrolls: Blades without paying a cent.