Friction Burns For Commander Shepard, Ignorance Is Access By Ruth Cassidy • January 31st, 2022 Shepard’s xenophobia and its invisibility are both tools to give players what they want: as much access to the game’s world as possible, without the social cost.
Try Reading... 50 Years Later, Superman Defeats the Klan Again By Harry Rabinowitz • February 10th, 2021 Superman punching Nazis, chucking Klansmen and standing up for diversity has never been this good.
Feature Excerpt Skin Deep By Malindy Hetfeld • July 25th, 2018 For a modern racial allegory, David Cage repeats a lot of history’s mistakes
Another Look Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation By Yussef Cole • November 10th, 2017 I see a game that’s haunted by ghosts; the specter of black culture, appropriated first by the minstrel set then by the Fleischers, Disney and others.
How to Watch The Big Short and Stay Smarter Than the Average Chimp By Declan Taggart • March 4th, 2016 Why does the boiling rage of the collective simmer down to a flavorless consomme of apathy, resentment and mistrust?
Please, For the Love of God, Don’t Watch The Ridiculous Six By Megan Condis • February 1st, 2016 Ridiculous 6 is 6 kinds of ridiculously bad.
