Getting Trapped in Metal Gear Solid V’s War Economy
Debt, industrialism, and the systems of modern war.
Critical Distance
Is Your Game able to Withstand a Tabletop Gamer?
Why board game players make great testers.
The Impossible Scaffold
Architectural metaphor in videogames.
The Abject Emptiness of ‘Everything’
Why the words “open world” are meaningless.
Who We Aren’t Anymore
A look back to understand who we are now.
Feeling Alone in Everbody’s Gone to the Rapture
Who are you in Everbody’s Gone to the Rapture?
Death Positivity in Videogames
Changing the mechanics of mortality.
Let the Nostalgia Die: C.S. Lewis and the Final Fantasy VII Remake
The consequences of chasing childhood memories.
Long Way Home: ‘Dragon Age 2’ on Immigration & Identity
Facing the harsh realities of a refugee’s journey through high fantasy.
On the much hated and woefully overlooked codec radio
The invincible and memorable conversations of Snake.
Gotham City Burning
Why no one but Batman cares about the city of Gotham.
Virtual Light: Exploring In-Game Photography And Photo History
How to have a conversation about in-game photography and not be an idiot about it.
Shrugging Off Mental Illness in Rise of the Tomb Raider
Lara Croft should be allowed to have moments of weakness.
Shut up, Her Story
Her Story might be a good videogame, but it’s the worst kind of crime fiction.
The politics of beauty
Capitalism, modernism, and the dehumanization of art.
Cuphead, Fleish & Cherry, and the influence and impact of classic animation
Why creators need to be careful when resurrecting the images of classic animation.
Getting mad at videogames
When the competition gets way too salty.
Bloody Histories, Dangerous Communities: Educators’ Ethical Responsibilities Teaching Games
The moral dilemma of teaching with games.
The Qun Demands It: The Evolution of the Barbarous Other
The secret racism behind high fantasy’s brutish races.
The Ludic Rashomon
A game world made up of many stories of different weight.
A pixel artist renounces pixel art
The “pixel tax” comes to collect.
Let’s go home, Ellie
Miguel Penabella on The Last of Us and The Searchers.
Shut Up and Take My Money! A Tale of a Poor Gamer
What does it mean to be a consumer of videogames?