Studio Ghibli’s Spaces of Escape and Longing
The spaces we never occupy haunt us the most
Gareth Damian Martin
Hidetaka Miyazaki’s transcendent quest for beauty in Bloodborne
The obsessions of an artist.
The Order: 1886: Whitechapel, Red Barrels
A world—a city—that deserves more
A Dog Tale, or the death of mystery
On the strange power of unremarkable games.
Metroid Prime 2 and the potential of sequels
The wonders of Sanctuary Fortress.
How To Escape
Exploring the potential of the screen, the page and the ceiling.
The House and the Labyrinth
Resident Evil’s remake is the series’ fullest exploration of architectural horror.
The Year in Architecture
Learning to play the architecture of Abstract Ritual, NaissanceE and Frank Gehry.
We are slaves to Destiny
Parsing the insidious darkness beneath The Dark Below.
The timely optimism of In Real Life
How Cory Doctorow’s graphic novel ended up being more relevant than it intended.
The Last Night explores cyberpunk’s dead end
A two-minute game made in less than a week draws 35 years of sci-fi to a halt.
The Destiny beta’s unacknowledged debt to the Space Race
Unearthing the space age rhetoric and iconography of Destiny.