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An overgrown, post-apocalyptic city environment from The Last of Us. A rusted city bus covered in vines and greenery features prominently.

After Us

By Justin Reeve • May 11th, 2023

There’s a remarkably prevalent misconception that if people suddenly disappeared from the planet, the environment would eventually return to how it was before we started transforming the landscape.

Casting Deep Meteo
Art from Dordogne shows a girl in a wide-brimmed pink hat traversing a sunny forest with a small black cat. The cat looks frightened but the girl is calm.

Beats and Feets at PAX East 2023

By Levi Rubeck • May 10th, 2023

PAX East 2023, mostly the same as it ever was. (A place with cool games!)

A cropped image of a television screen featuring a wobbly image of an old cassette recorder and speaker combination, laying against an otherwise empty concrete room, the tv it's displayed on above a clock that reads 9:25, all coming from the icon for GAMETHING podcast season 4: horror

Screening Calls with GAMETHING’s David Wolinsky and Pippin Barr

By Ben Sailer • May 5th, 2023

“I think that’s the joy of what we’re doing, it’s like a crock pot for ideas about games that otherwise you would just totally zoom past if you have to be like, ‘Here’s my here’s my final judgment.'”

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A close-up of Daisy Fitzroy's face in Bioshock Infinite. She is a determined-looking young black woman with tied-back braids.

Less Punk and More Funk

By Phoenix Simms • May 5th, 2023

What would a character like Daisy Fitzroy have been capable of if her script in Bioshock Infinite were handled by an African American writer with a Steamfunk sensibility?

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The face of the Katamari king surrounded by rainbow circles rippling outward.

Rolling Up

By Phoenix Simms • April 6th, 2023

We Love Katamari and the series it’s a part of is about the alchemy of persistence at its core. You take what’s available to you and turn it into a star.

Screenshot from the trailer for The Conjuring, featuring the exorcist couple doing a little peekaboo in a spooky basement

Horror’s Path Through Christian Cosmology

By Lyana Rodriguez • March 17th, 2023

Howlikely is it that you find a monster justifying something truly dangerous and soul-crushing with a bit of Scripture? How easy is it, especially now, to discover a religious bigot justifying the shedding of blood for the sake of their own personal crusade? 

A crayon drawing of a red Formula 1 style car

Learner’s Permit: Anatomy of a Race Weekend

By David Shimomura • March 16th, 2023

What is a “race weekend” anyway?

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An 8-bit rendering of a pale blue teacup and saucer on a wooden countertop.

What We Make From the Ruins

By Phoenix Simms • March 8th, 2023

Phoenix chats with the lead game narrative designer of The Archipelago about writing a game that explores both the political and personal.

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Melinoë, the protagonist of the videogame Hades II. She wears an orange mini dress and has her hair cut into a blunt bob. Her left arm glows with a mystical light.

The Triple Goddess Effect

By Phoenix Simms • February 2nd, 2023

Like Hades protagonist Zagreus, Melinoë is also connected to an Orphic hymn, this time one that sings of her as a “saffron veil’d” nymph that inspires both night terrors and madness in people.

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Greta, the female gremlin from Gremlins 2, poses in a sequined red gown and pink feather boa, a large red flower pinned to her shiny green mane of wavy tresses. Her makeup is flawless on her scaly green face.

Gremlin Girl Energy

By Phoenix Simms • January 5th, 2023

Greta is both a problem and a potential solution to that problem, but when read under a more feminist-revisionist lens, she’s charmingly camp, she’s a 90s icon and she’s absolutely that bitch.

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