IT DOESN’T MATTER WHEN YOU KILL ALL THE CIVILIANS By Edward Smith • February 23rd, 2021 I firmly believe that the player is the least interesting character in every videogame.
Consensual Violence By Amanda Hudgins • April 8th, 2019 Blood sports are an active brutality on the lives on the participants, a grotesque display of physicality and punishment that leaves them pummeled on the side of the road.
Assassination Nation has Blood in its Teeth By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 The moral of Assassination Nation is that high school boys are terrible and you should kill them.
Our Hearts Have Long Been Closed By Sam Desatoff • May 23rd, 2018 “We’ve fallen so far down the blood-soaked rabbit hole that now even the most violent of protagonists are wondering if we’ve gone too far.”
Backlog Violent Videogames are Violent By Gavin Craig • April 6th, 2018 Taking action on gun violence doesn’t require defending the too-often stupid violence in videogames.
Watch These Satisfying Particle Simulations TOTALLY EVISCERATE Donald Trump By David Rudin • March 16th, 2018 Videos of rainbows and sunsets aren’t going to save our souls.
Broforce Doesn’t Know If It Wants to Be Mindless or Smart By Khee Hoon Chan • June 20th, 2017 Broforce is not a poorly-made game. It’s an imperceptive one.
Dead-End Narrative By Richard Clark • October 12th, 2016 “In a world full of challenges, when our lives are defined by one obstacle after another, violence is a dead-end narrative.”
The Sound and the Fury – Rape Scenes and Westerns in 2016 By Amanda Hudgins • February 1st, 2016 Two of the biggest movies of the season also feature rape scenes. Amanda has some thoughts.
The Abyss Stares Back By Zavian Sildra • September 10th, 2013 Can a gaming pacifist come to terms with killing for fun?
