Feature Excerpt Blasting the Canon By Andrew Goddard • October 7th, 2021 What classical music can teach us about constructing a videogame canon
Try Reading... The Movement Marches On By Harry Rabinowitz • August 6th, 2020 Now and then, the privileged and the powerful imply that the “right way” to protest is not to protest at all. John Lewis stands against that.
Historian of the Future: An Interview with Andrew Groen By Megan Condis • May 9th, 2016 Megan had the opportunity to sit down with Andrew Groen, author of Empires of EVE
Why Aren’t You Already Following @WhoresofYore By Amanda Hudgins • February 29th, 2016 People have been doing the hunka chunka for a long time. Amanda is kind enough to give us a valuable historical resource to scroll through on our lunch breaks.
Why Verdun Matters By Paul Schumann • December 10th, 2015 “Verdun proposes that an authentic squad-based shooter experience isn’t four players with submachine guns charging the enemy, hopping all over the place.”
Phantom Politics By Katriel Paige • December 3rd, 2015 “There is no absolute ‘us’ versus ‘them’ in Metal Gear; alliances and loyalties shift within the franchise.” Katriel Paige explores political allegiance in MGS V.
Feudal Pakistan By Shahryar Rizvi • August 17th, 2015 Shahryar Rizvi connects the history of past and present Pakistani politics to forging his own dynasty in Crusader Kings II.
History is Written By Stu Horvath • November 22nd, 2012 Stu Horvath discovers that the Revolutionary War was a lot more complicated than his elementary school history books led him to believe, thanks to Assassin’s Creed III.
Screw You, Gandhi By Chris Dahlen • October 11th, 2012 Chris Dahlen and his son learn a little history with Civilization.
