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Here's the Thing
A scene from Disney's Tangled shows Rapunzel interrogating Finn, who she's got tied to a chair with her hair.

I Might Be Done with Dreams

By Rob Rich • March 15th, 2024

Rob reflects on his previous hopes and dreams, as well as why he doesn’t really have any more of them now. (But not in a depressing way, promise!)

Forms in Light
The Portal villain GLaDOS, a giant black and white robotic arm, hangs from the ceiling awaiting a final fight with the player.

Weaving the Bountiful Threads of Being

By Justin Reeve • March 14th, 2024

At what point does a bucket of bolts begin being a person? Does it ever?

A screencap from Tears of the Kingdom when the Stable Trotters band is brought back together to sing for a Great Fairy

Getting the Band Back Together: Players Orchestrating Worlds

By Jonathan Fenn • March 13th, 2024

The reason bringing musicians together works so well as a gameplay trope, is that it capitalizes on connection and creativity at its core in a mechanically satisfying, and often narratively significant way.

Noah's Beat Box

Watching Kubrick on My Phone

By Noah Springer • March 13th, 2024

To be fair, I have never seen a Kubrick movie in theaters, so this entire thing may be flawed from the get-go.

Artwork for the game Watch Dogs 2 with a portrait of the lead on the right wearing a black face mask, ball cap, sunglasses, and headphones as they look intently at his mobile phone, hacking

Escape from Tomorrow

By Zonghang Zhou • March 12th, 2024

The greatest pity is that Marcus does not succeed where Aiden has failed – to rebuild.

Casting Deep Meteo
A shirtless Patrick Swayze practices his fightin' moves in a still from Road House.

Road House Ronin

By Levi Rubeck • March 12th, 2024

Miyamoto Usagi and Dalton’s stories aren’t totally parallel, but they rhyme in a lot of ways.

Mystic Punks, Part One

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 11th, 2024

The squares sure aren’t gonna save the day.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Beasts of Maravilla Island shows the protagonist observing a pair of colorful monkey sitting on the branch of a tree in a tropical forest.

Seasonal Space

By Jay Castello • March 8th, 2024

I played one section of Beasts of Maravilla Island and then I got on a bus, and the naked tree branches seemed more interesting than ever.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Key art for Disney's Lorcana game, with ice queen, Mickey Mausritter, and crow queen standing in a line together

Versus Mode: Lorcana x Sorcerer’s Arena

By Orrin Grey • March 7th, 2024

Unlike Lorcana, Sorcerer’s Arena is not an original game cooked up whole cloth. It is, instead, an adaptation of the mobile game of the same name. I’ve tried out the mobile game a bit, but not enough to really get a feel for it, and there’s something to be said for the joy of pushing little plastic standees around on a board.

Rookie of the Year
The band U2 plays on a tiny stage just inside the gigantic circular wall of the Sphere, a huge flock of birds projected on its side.

Atomic City: U2 Go Nuclear at the Sphere

By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2024

If I lived in Las Vegas, I wouldn’t be writing this column at all, because I’d be at the show. Again. (And then again.)

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