Feature Excerpt ‘Level VII feat. Cosmo Canyon’ Beyond the Nuclear Village By Leanne Rahel • May 26th, 2026 Mass market videogames simply take too long to be politically current anymore.
Here's the Thing I Don’t Want to Live in Midgar Anymore By Rob Rich • May 20th, 2026 Midgar is an example of corporate greed run amok that wasn’t supposed to act as a blueprint, but it kinda has been.
Forms in Light Life Between the Levels By Justin Reeve • May 19th, 2026 The fallacy of social hierarchy is made clearly manifest in the urban landscape of Midgar.
Here Be Monsters Stepford Waifus: The Politics of Aesthetic Homogeneity in Final Fantasy By Emma Kostopolus • May 11th, 2026 The only thing the female characters get to be, all narrative protestations of their strength to the contrary, is small and delicately pretty.
Run It Back 1997 – 2020 By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 8th, 2026 It’s much easier to force desperate people into extractive economic relationships when you’ve fundamentally destabilized their society.
Meeting Your Imagined Community on the Show Floor By Gianna Mulvey • June 10th, 2025 The only Final Fantasy fans I know personally are two of my friends and my brothers, and I’m pretty certain there are more than five Final Fantasy fans out there in the world.
Past Presence Let’s Do It Again, But This Time Better By Dr. Emily Price • April 4th, 2025 Can the Remake trilogy, vastly expanded as it is, be a “good” remake of FFVII?
