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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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