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Friction Burns

Never to Return

By Ruth Cassidy • November 15th, 2023

It feels like knowing Pyre’s secrets should remove its surface tensions, but a risk you know how to calculate just makes the gambles feel larger.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Milton Bradley's Vampire Hunter, featuring a large glowing tower in the center of the game board.

What You See in the Dark: Night and Day in Vampire Hunter

By Orrin Grey • November 15th, 2023

Vampire Hunter is a fairly straightforward board game with one exception – you play it in the dark.

Nonhuman Meditations

Where are the Giant Bats?

By Alyssa Wejebe • November 14th, 2023

The shape of vampires could stretch and be more.

Here's the Thing
A moody pen-and-ink drawing from Vampire: The Masquerade showing a man in dark glasses and a motorcycle jacket smoking a cig.

Vampire, and the Importance of a Good Storyteller

By Rob Rich • November 14th, 2023

Rob reminisces about his early days of tabletop RPGs, and how much a bad Storyteller in Vampire: The Masquerade almost torpedoed his interest entirely.

Forms in Light
Johnathan E. Reid, the player character from Vampyr, stands in a hospital lit by sodium orange lamps.

Parasites and Predation

By Justin Reeve • November 10th, 2023

While Vampyr has been critically acclaimed for its narrative depth and gameplay mechanics, the architectural design is definitely worth a mention, being at once a thematic and functional cornerstone of the game.

Noah's Beat Box

Vamps – Otherwise

By Noah Springer • November 9th, 2023

Repetition and transformation.

Casting Deep Meteo
A screencap from Vampire Hunter D shows the titular hunter reaching towards the viewer. He wears a magnificent hat.

One Thousand Year Old Vampire Hunter D

By Levi Rubeck • November 8th, 2023

While watching Vampire Hunter D, one can’t help but connect it to the relatively recent solo role-playing game Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings.

Area of Effect
A striking vista of a rock formation on a desert planet. The starry sky is awash in the hazy colors of an alien sunset.

Open World Vampires

By Jay Castello • November 7th, 2023

The open world map is almost nothing but a center for consumption.

Interlinked
A screenshot of Raziel from Legacy of Kain: Defiance. He is a skeletal wraith and has a scarf covering the bottom half of his face.

Don’t Fear the Reaver

By Phoenix Simms • November 3rd, 2023

Raziel, the tragic wraith protagonist of the Soul Reaver series, contains within his arc a nuanced portrayal of how an energy vampire is made and unmade.

Here Be Monsters

A Different Sort of Vampire: The Endemic Issue Behind Redfall’s Critical Flop

By Emma Kostopolus • November 2nd, 2023

Redfall is an excellent test case for how capitalist gamer culture has turned some gaming consumers into a particularly odious, never-satisfied group of soulsuckers.

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