Here Be Monsters On Being Chased By Emma Kostopolus • October 31st, 2022 These monsters are more than bundles of code: they are a concrete reminder of the lack of control that we have over our own lives.
Assigned, (De)limited Desire Flying Shop of Horrors By Trevor Richardson • October 26th, 2022 Fanaticism, embodiment, and economics have been stitched together to loom dreadful over all.
Feature Excerpt Monsters Built by Human Hands By Hyacinth Nil • October 20th, 2022 A close reading of Lakeview Hotel.
Interlinked Acquiring Phantomilian By Phoenix Simms • October 5th, 2022 Games have their own form of communication and language and, in some instances, they include constructed languages, or conlangs, that are foreign to their players too.
Run It Back 1987 By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 28th, 2022 Tayo’s back discussing two films from 1987, both by trailblazing gay directors, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys and Derek Jarman’s The Last of England.
Friction Burns Finding The On-Ramp To Route Zero By Ruth Cassidy • September 26th, 2022 Kentucky Route Zero carries its own ghosts of its critical legacy. How do I get past that?
Dimensions Paradise Killer is On a Heavenly Trip By Caroline Delbert • September 21st, 2022 Kaizen Game Works built their lore sky high, climbed through an unseen ceiling, and emerged into the scene of an age-old mystery. With Oli Clarke Smith.
Casting Deep Meteo The Meat Box: Four Quick Bites By Levi Rubeck • September 12th, 2022 With nary a word of acknowledgement, Levi casts such deep meteo he ends up mimicking Noah Springer’s “The Beat Box” column. Good picks, though.
Interlinked The Hopeful Disharmony of Into the Doomed World By Phoenix Simms • September 8th, 2022 Phoenix talks to Javy Gwaltney about Into the Doomed World, his new short-story collection about 30 self-aware NPCs in a world that’s been sentenced to a slow apocalypse by its player.
Dimensions Paradise Killer’s 8,227 Years of Solitude By Caroline Delbert • August 26th, 2022 What does time mean when the ruling class is immortal? Everything, it turns out. With comments from Oli Clarke Smith and Sam Barlow.
