I Played It, Like, Twice Everyone’s Heard the Stories: Dungeon Crawling in the Haunted Heartland with The Ghosts Betwixt By Orrin Grey • October 8th, 2024 The Ghosts Betwixt takes a cue from Stranger Things to tell a story set in the “1990s haunted heartland”
Rookie of the Year The Newport Folk Festival Has a New Friend By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2024 Conan O’Brien isn’t Pete Seeger or Joni Mitchell, but he did the Newport Folk Festival proud.
The Ambivalence of Resistance By Zonghang Zhou • October 7th, 2024 Once these antagonizing powers are crushed, the rationality that sustains and justifies our actions will be accordingly diluted and quickly absorbed.
Eat the Reich By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 7th, 2024 Name something better than tearing a nazi in half with your bare hands. You can’t!
Who Deserves the Future? By Jonathan Fenn • October 4th, 2024 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes highlights the lack of conviction from which post-apocalyptic stories often suffer, in their insistence in constantly refocusing on humanity’s story.
Interlinked Out of Reach, Out of Mind By Phoenix Simms • October 4th, 2024 When you strictly define games as a commercial product you devalue the prominent place games and their rhetoric now have in our current zeitgeist.
Checkmate: A Review of Overshoot By Autumn Wright • October 3rd, 2024 It may feel like we are checked, but the missiles are still in the air, the destruction of in development fossil capital is still unrealized. It’s checkmate.
You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024 One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.
Mind Palaces Consider the Orzo By Maddi Chilton • October 3rd, 2024 I am the least hungry when I’m stressed, or sad, or sick, when something has gone wrong elsewhere in my life and my stomach suffers for it.
Driveclub Might Not Deserve Reverence, But It Should be Revisited By Van Dennis • October 2nd, 2024 Driveclub is still one of the most frustrating racing games I’ve ever played… and yet, it somehow also makes me wistful, as it’s a game I could see doing very well today if it had gotten a second chance.
