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Tag: The Spooky Issue

Here's the Thing
A skeleton stands, jaw agape, amongst several tombstones in a screenshot from Shadow Tower.

I’m Having a Bad Time (and Loving it)

By Rob Rich • November 13th, 2025

While on a “classic Fromsoft” binge of the King’s Field series, Rob finally returns to Shadow Tower’s exceptionally hostile halls – and having a great bad time.

Forms in Light
Two members of the Yiga Clan crouch menacingly in this screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Strangers on the Road

By Justin Reeve • November 12th, 2025

They’ll suddenly turn on you mid-conversation, revealing themselves to be a secret assassin in disguise, dedicated to your demise.

Totally Generic
Wendy runs through the red-lit bowels of a crashed spaceship in this still from Alien: Earth.

Alien: Earth

By Natasha Ochshorn • November 11th, 2025

It’s difficult to be scared of something that you’re maybe rooting for.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Herdling shows herders and herd traversing a mountain slope, even taller peaks rising tall in the distance.

Forward to Where?

By Jay Castello • November 7th, 2025

If Herdling wants to make a point about humans being an integral part of the ecosystem, it needs both humans and ecosystems.

Rookie of the Year
A photograph of two pairs of small hands drawing on either side of a large pad of paper, a Monopoly game board set off to the side.

Marronopoly

By Matt Marrone • November 6th, 2025

The activity that has best defined the outsized influence Monopoly now has over our lives happened on a recent Saturday.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Bioshock Infinite shows Elizabeth sitting at a desk in front of a portrait of Marx.

Forgiving, and Forgetting, Bioshock

By Elijah Beahm • November 5th, 2025

If there is one constructive lesson that can be learned from Bioshock Infinite, it’s the crucial, fundamental need for forgiveness.

Here Be Monsters
A screenshot from Silent Hill f shows the protagonist fighting a giant, discombobulated version of a teenage schoolchild.

The Limits of Powerlessness: On Silent Hill f

By Emma Kostopolus • November 4th, 2025

The game appears to want to have it both ways – “run and hide” in tandem with “stand and fight.”

Noah's Beat Box
A photograph of sunlight streaming through an extremely dense thicket of trees and vegetation.

The Strangling Fruit

By Noah Springer • October 31st, 2025

Grass grew, I mowed. Weeds sprouted, I pulled. Mosquitos multiplied, I swatted. And all that time, life pulsed.

This Mortal Coyle
Art from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow shows a close-up on an older woman holding her nose while a younger woman looks on from further behind.

Mildred Walker from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow

By Deirdre Coyle • October 29th, 2025

Meet Mildred Walker, better known as Mother Mildred, the local wise woman considered by many to be a witch.

Past Presence
Hornet stands at the edge of a cliff of greenery, holding her pin sword.

Silksong is for Speedrunners

By Dr. Emily Price • October 28th, 2025

Through its moveset, level design and overall resource economy, Silksong teaches you, on your first journey through it, how to be a speedrunner.

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