Another Look Fantasies of Fatherhood By Yussef Cole • March 13th, 2020 In Death Stranding, players get a chance to parent less a child than the idea of one.
Feature Excerpt God of Shame By Kenneth Shepard • November 1st, 2018 Violence is a language with meaning in God of War, rather than the gratuitous thrill of the game’s predecessors. And this legacy is exactly what Kratos means to hide from his son.
Unwinnable Monthly – October 2018 By Stu Horvath • October 16th, 2018 It is time for the October issue of Unwinnable Monthly! Find out what’s behind the cover.
Helpful Moms and Rakuen By Caroline Delbert • August 29th, 2018 But where are the helpful moms in games? If it’s so dangerous to go alone, why doesn’t anyone take their mom?
Feature Excerpt Climbing the Virtual Mountain By Rowan Evans • August 23rd, 2018 When rendered in videogames, a mountain becomes more than an obstacle. They’re living sites, where introspection, healing and learning take place.
Checkpoint The Blind God By Corey Milne • August 21st, 2018 God of War is just the latest example of how outside narratives are at the mercy of the established Western studios.
Feature Excerpt Never Alone Again (Digitally) By Gavin Craig and David Wolinsky • August 20th, 2018 Meditations and musings on the lack of solitary videogame experiences, and what that might mean.
Destiny 2’s Quiet Moments Do the Story’s Heavy-lifting By Yussef Cole • July 13th, 2018 While much of Destiny 2’s narrative is delivered to the player in bombastic cutscenes, its strongest storytelling can be found in the game’s margins, through the quieter mutterings and conversations of its non-playable characters.
God of War & the Lessons of an Undocumented Immigrant By Marcos Gonsalez • June 25th, 2018 For my father, my Kratos, my brown Atlas holding up my world, and the world of cookie-cutter America so dependent on his labor, his exhaustion, his life energy itself, will be the one I must release on the summit.
Our Hearts Have Long Been Closed By Sam Desatoff • May 23rd, 2018 “We’ve fallen so far down the blood-soaked rabbit hole that now even the most violent of protagonists are wondering if we’ve gone too far.”
