Desiree Brown sat down with author Brian McGreevy to talk about his new novel Hemlock Grove, a modern twist on the vampire and werewolf genre. What ensues is a rather strange conversation about the nature of fear and the modern occult, but he does offer a twist on what a monster or a villain could o
When in doubt, look to Italo Calvino’s systematic writings about literature and the imagination. We use one of his essays to speculate on the creation of a gaming canon.
Way back in issue 3, we explored what games infants play when they play games in our piece “The Young and the Scoreless.” Ryan Bradley examined the world of electronic games through the lens of three-year-old Jackson who’s been working out some life issues through iPad games: Play can be serious bus
I’m trying to finish every episode of the wonderful science and culture podcast/radio program Radiolab this year and during my quest, I came across a quote from their 2008 episode titled “My So-Called Life” about the boundaires of science, morality, and bioengineering. They quote theoretical physici
