Essay
My Purple-Haired Made-Up Best Friend, and Why She Had to Die
With the Transmedia fad at large, questions of authorship threaten to detract from the point. Chris Dahlan recounts a literary heroine’s stint in the blogosphere.
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I Am Sitting In A Room
While the soundtracks in games are pushed farther and farther into the background, their composers can learn from the ambient innovators who turned background music into art.
Game Audio
Editor's Letter: The Sound Issue
Games have more in common with music than with movies, and the Sound Issue makes the case for listening closer.
Review
Review: WarLight
Why a browser game about conquering the world is Chris Dahlen’s preferred way to communicate with his friends.
Review
Review: Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
Some may mistake the third in this series from Atlus as one of the new crop of retro, impossible Japanese role-playing games, but they’re wrong. Courtesy of Shigeo Komori, the drone of the grinding in the sea city of Armoroad provides its own distinct appeal.
Feature
Mazed and Confused
Do puzzle games actually teach us anything?
Issue 01
Licking Her Boot
A talk with the independent gamemaker, critic, sadist, and creator of Mighty Jill Off, Calamity Annie, and Redder