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Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Control shows Jesse floating in a long hallway that spirals impossibly around her.

Control Explores Theology in the Multiverse

By Elijah Beahm • December 5th, 2025

In CONTROL, faith is a fundamental force like gravity.

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Ahti attends to his work while listening to his 80s-style headphones.

Solace and Play Within Games

By Alyssa Hatmaker • January 23rd, 2024

Sometimes being reminded that you’re playing a videogame is a welcome feeling.

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The Stories of Virtual Fragments

By Clint Morrison Jr. • November 22nd, 2023

Modern games are littered with fragmented narratives, digital ephemera often left obscured or abstracted in their incompleteness.

This Mortal Coyle
A burning, post-apocalyptic landscape.

The Ultimate Apocalypse Team

By Deirdre Coyle • November 4th, 2021

Hunters/Gatherers/MacGyver-ers Assemble!

Forms in Light

Bizarre Brutalism

By Justin Reeve • April 11th, 2020

In Control, developer Remedy takes the supernatural aspect of this architectural style and runs with it.

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Carrington’s Dreamscape

By Daniel Lipscombe • April 2nd, 2020

Videogames, especially those of the horror variety, could seriously stand to take a leaf from surrealism’s book.

This Mortal Coyle

Jesse Faden from Control

By Deirdre Coyle • February 7th, 2020

Deirdre desperately wants to be friends with Jesse Faden, someone similarly comfortable with the surreal and unexplainable.

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