Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: The Scariest, Saddest Song of 2016 By Matt Marrone • November 5th, 2015 “What happens when you can’t even remember those favorite things that make you not feel so bad?” Matt Marrone on the horror of Daughter’s first track of 2016.
The Burnt Offering The Howls of the Damned By Stu Horvath • October 30th, 2015 Where are the songs that make us scream in terror?
A Ship of Broken Jedi By John Wm. Thompson • October 29th, 2015 “Every other character who can actually see the Force describes the player as a walking emptiness.” John Wm. Thompson on KOTOR2’s oddness and arguable success.
The World Ends With Youth By Rob Haines • October 29th, 2015 “The epitome of teenage isolation, Neku tried to understand other people, but his total lack of adult empathy makes them intrinsically unknowable, an unsolvable enigma.”
Paint-Eater: Urban Art in Digital Worlds By Heather Alexandra • October 29th, 2015 “We’ll be waving our controllers around, miming activity that we clearly don’t understand.” Heather Alexandra on gaming’s failure to understand street art.
Back to the Couch By Taylor Hidalgo • October 22nd, 2015 “A couch full of audience-participants, and an enduring sense that gaming was something I got to share with everyone, even though I was the only one ‘playing’.”
