Zack Kotzer

Review

I am Bread, and I am terrible

Know true destructive force at last as a baked good.

Review

Kirby creators try a new shape in BoxBoy

Along the way, they evoke Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times.

Article

Exploring Canal City, a Japanese mall straight outta Myst

Exploring Canal City, Japan’s mythically strange shopping plaza.

Review

Code Name S.T.E.A.M. is a fun embarrassment

Hi kids, do you like steampunk?

Article

Off-Peak splits the difference between a videogame and a mood board

Where Coltrane and Rinse Dream collide.

Article

The year games got funny again

Goats, microtransactions, anal probes, pizza: 2014 saw a new form of comedy emerge.

Article

Can pinball tell a story?

Two new Walking Dead machines provide a case in point.

Article

Kyle Reimergartin is still hungry

Will the Fjords creator ever get his fill?

Emergents

The unexpected pleasures of playing a game from the top down

Looking down never felt so good.

Review

Neverending Nightmares finds horror in repetition. Monotony, too.

How many times can something be scary?

Article

How to make a 1500 year old game interesting again

Damian Sommer’s chess breaks what may’ve already been broken.

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There’s a single attack in the new Smash Bros. that defines Nintendo’s thinking

Sweet little axe-wielding Villager.