Rookie of the Year Remember. Every. Moment. By Matt Marrone • November 1st, 2019 Matt shares a story of R.E.M.’s Monster and parenting on the album’s 25th anniversary.
Documentary Sunday Shirkers By Megan Condis • July 8th, 2019 The story behind Shirkers is one of a doomed project and a bizarre cruelty.
Collision Detection When Amazon Gamifies Hell, Who’s Gaming Who? By Ben Sailer • July 3rd, 2019 Videogames placed in Amazon warehouses are allegedly intended to boost employee morale. However, reality may be less altruistic than the company’s PR spin.
Feature Excerpt A Legacy of Movement By Khee Hoon Chan • March 1st, 2019 Doom may have defined the first-person shooter, but Mirror’s Edge made it flow.
Feature Excerpt Friday Nights in the Hostile Environment By Rob Haines • January 28th, 2019 British developer PanicBarn’s Not Tonight offers a Brexit-flavored critique of the past ten years of the hostile environment.
Backlog What Was the Question? And Why Do You Ask? By Gavin Craig • January 15th, 2019 The most complicated question in Mass Effect: do geth units have souls?
This Mortal Coyle The Encarta MindMaze Witch By Deirdre Coyle • November 21st, 2018 Hidden in Microsoft Encarta ’95 lies one of the foundational goths of Deirdre’s childhood.
Collision Detection Rigged Games By Ben Sailer • November 14th, 2018 If politicians treat electioneering like a tactical war game that was built to be hacked, Gerrymander lays their tactics bare with adorably dystopian puzzles.
Feature Suspended, Mid-air By Davis Cox • September 21st, 2018 The fervor that fueled indie success after success on Kickstarter in the early 2010s has fizzled. Now, all that’s left are the dissatisfied, both fans and creators alike.
Rookie of the Year Cheap Wine By Matt Marrone • September 14th, 2018 A hootenanny revival becomes a gothic short story after a song about booze and memories best forgotten.
