Presenting Time Warrior, a new classic of so-bad-it’s-good cinema
Imagine Birdemic crossed with a stock photo of a gamer.
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Let’s go home, Ellie
Miguel Penabella on The Last of Us and The Searchers.
What’s worth fighting for in San Bavón, Anchuria?
This is what Sunset’s protagonist Angela Burnes is fleeing from and fighting for
Long live Mad Max, demigod of our post-apocalyptic nowhere
The righteous return of the road warrior, and what it means for videogames
Digging into the Southeast Asian bootleg videogame cutscene economy
They made a Metal Gear Solid movie?
Studio Ghibli’s Spaces of Escape and Longing
The spaces we never occupy haunt us the most
The Tracking Shot and Action Games
Daredevil, True Detective, and the videogame-tension of the long-shot.
Big Hero 6, the Companion Cube, and the pathos of the posthuman sidekick
The escort mission comes to Hollywood
An Ode to an Empty Game Gear
A look back at games in film, from Surf Ninjas to Boyhood
The game-like films of David Lynch
To engage with David Lynch films is to undertake a puzzle.
The post-apocalyptic world will still be boring
The novel Slynx evokes the minutiae of survival, and points to a new path for games.
One of the best JRPGs of the past year was a free smartphone game
Terra Battle froze hell over.
Tracing the digital and the real in East Vancouver
A pilgrimage to the East Van Cross, with videogames.
Bloodborne and the history of horror
Want to understand Bloodborne? Read this.
What videogame RPGs could learn from Community
Remember the beginning of Skyrim? Yeah, neither do we.
The toxicity and empathy of social media, in videogame form
Killing Time at Light Speed evokes the turmoil of last fall the way most people experienced it.
How do you keep a game-and a community-like Netrunner alive?
A discussion with Lukas Litzsinger on creating a new cycle.
The game design of monarchies
Gating and the eighteenth century court.
Oddworld remains the cutest parable of proletariat uprising ever made
Viva la Mudoken revolution!
An experimental dress-up game destroys gender norms and the world itself
A look at Femmepocalypse, the cyberpunk doll you play with a mask.
A Russian novel, a floating rock, and the world of Overland
The long influence of Roadside Picnic.
Where does Minecraft end?
A quest to the edge of an endless world.
Finding your way as a queer LARPer
The Wayfinder Experience supports fluid notions of gender and identity.
What happens when you combine the roguelike with a traditional JRPG? Nothing good
Etrian Mystery Dungeon is a star-crossed abomination.