The Aesthetics of Impermanence: How Frieren Visualizes Untranslatable Japanese Philosophy By Beatrix Kondo • March 16th, 2026 What if we honored the space between things as much as the things themselves?
THAT’S WHAT THE BLOG IS FOR! Mad Men S1E9–S1E10 By Natasha Ochshorn • March 13th, 2026 Does Don really want to live a life outside of his work? Unclear!
Let Me Think About the Damage By Wallace Truesdale • April 22nd, 2025 It makes me wonder what this game would be like if the corpses were treated, at least a bit more, like actual bodies.
Friction Burns I Was A Teenage Exocolonist: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again(?) By Ruth Cassidy • September 14th, 2022 Consequences matter when you decide, but sometimes death is useful.
Feature Excerpt Death is Not the End By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020 The inhabitants of the Dark Souls universe seek a hero to rekindle the first flame, for without it, they believe, all life will cease. But they are wrong.
Feature Excerpt Accepting Death as the Sun Goes Out By Ryan Cooper • April 2nd, 2020 The Outer Wilds’ tragic time-loop helps Ryan Cooper process real-world struggles.
Feature Excerpt Games About Death (Are Stuck In a Rut) By Mark Hill • December 2nd, 2019 Why has the treatment of death in certain indie games become so predictable?
