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A grown-ass man replays Final Fantasy VII

The greatest game ever made, and the problem of memory.

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The semiotics of controller design

Circle, Square, Triangle, and X.

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The impossible architecture of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Konami came close to making Piranesi’s imaginary prisons real.

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Treachery in Beatdown City wants to make a more diverse videogame world

Treachery in Beatdown City looks to change representations of people of color.

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PlayStation Underground as existential crisis

When nostalgia inverts on itself.

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Dragon Age’s post-racial (high) fantasy

How Inquisition takes the politics out of race.

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Playing The Quiet Year, a tabletop game about building communities

Where contempt is a mechanic.

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The science behind real-life invisibility cloaks

Technology gets closer and closer to magic every day.

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Darkest Dungeon explores the psychological horror of the dungeon crawl

So: what are these videogame characters feeling?

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Donut County turns Los Angeles sprawl into a delicious, pop-art fantasia

Ben Esposito talks about erasure and delight in his upcoming game.

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Behind the Night in the Woods spinoff about our godless world

What do we do when we can’t rely on religion?

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Tarkovsky, Halo skulls, and the badlands of virtual space

Into the void where designed spaces end.