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A screenshot from What Remains of Edith Finch featuring a cozy looking home entryway with sunight streaming in, books everywhere, plenty of family photos, and an assistive chair to get up stairs

Immersion, Empathy, and Fate: What Remains After What Remains of Edith Finch

By Simon Liu • June 19th, 2025

Players have enough input to feel they are “there”, yet not enough to prevent the outcome.

A screenshot from the introduction for Grand Theft Auto Vice City where a seaplane flies around behind a cutout of a shark

Promising Hope, but Never Delivering

By Zonghang Zhou • January 15th, 2024

Standing still on the sand, I tried to probe into the devastation of my hope.

The Burnt Offering

Neverending Horror

By Stu Horvath • October 20th, 2014

Stu Horvath wonders why videogames aren’t so great at horror. Then he plays Neverending Nightmares.

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