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IT DOESN’T MATTER WHEN YOU KILL ALL THE CIVILIANS

By Edward Smith • February 23rd, 2021

I firmly believe that the player is the least interesting character in every videogame.

The McMaster Files

Ghosts in the Machine

By Jason McMaster • February 4th, 2020

What happens to our digital life when we die?

Fallout 3, The Outer Worlds, and the Megaton Problem

By Jeremy Signor • November 22nd, 2019

Binary choices in games persist today even as RPGs get more and more open. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

This Mortal Coyle

Top Ten Characters I Hate

By Deirdre Coyle • September 24th, 2018

September 2018 is the first anniversary of This Mortal Coyle and, to celebrate, Deirdre Coyle lists ten characters that make her blood boil.

Revving The Engine: Perception

By Stu Horvath • October 31st, 2016

Stu Horvath talks with Irrational Games vet Bill Gardner about his new project, Perception, a first person game that follows a blind woman into a horrific mystery.

BioShock Reskinned, Not Remastered

By David Shimomura • September 19th, 2016

What do you call a remaster that doesn’t remaster the original? A reskinning.

Trust Falls With Unreliable Narrators

By Riley MacLeod • December 17th, 2015

Being a good guest in games is hard when your guide tries to kill you.

Four Dollars an Hour

By Thos. West • September 14th, 2015

“…what he is afraid of is literally being made into a mechanical thing. The player notes that he has, in learning how to play the game, mechanized himself.”

bioshock infinite

We Stared Into Infinity and Saw Only Madness

By Dennis Scimeca • April 18th, 2013

For Dennis Scimeca, Bioshock Infinite is exactly the game it is supposed to be.

Tinker Gamer Soldier Spy

By Stu Horvath • February 22nd, 2013

The tension is in the silent moments.

A Good Start

By Gus Mastrapa • January 25th, 2013

We often want games to hit the ground running, but Gus Mastrapa makes a case for the ones that dare to make us stop to smell the roses.

On the Verge of Rapture

By Rob Haines • January 22nd, 2013

Rob Haines is repeatedly awed by BioShock‘s Rapture, but he finds each time that it’s the game itself that stops him from becoming fully immersed.

To the Games I Will Never Finish: A Love Letter

By Cara Ellison • November 19th, 2012

Cara Ellison tries to unravel the painful, tangled thread connecting her romantic relationships and videogames.

Rookie of the Year: I Am a Deadbeat Gamer

By Matt Marrone • October 1st, 2012

The Rookie of the Year has been playing a lot of videogames. And not finishing them.

To All the Games I’ve Loved Before

By Richard Clark • September 6th, 2012

Richard Clark writes a love letter to some old digital flames.

Rookie of the Year: Use Your Allusion

By Matt Marrone • August 1st, 2011

The Ayn Rand-inspired BioShock has Matt Marrone flashing back to his days as a lit major; he suggests other classic literature be turned into videogames.

BioShock Infinite

Coming Clean

By Stu Horvath • August 13th, 2010

I confess! I, Stu Horvath, never really liked BioShock.

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