Issue 01
The Big Chill
Maybe the video game violence people have a point
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Videogames and Tarantino: A mistaken love affair
Whether you like his work or not, Tarantino has a grip over the collective imagination many creators can only live out in their dreams. Take this year’s The Hateful Eight for instance. So much attention has been given to the mere possibility of a new Tarantino project that the film’s first script wa
News
Lara Croft still doesn’t know how to put a damn top on
The new Rise of the Tomb Raider footage from Gamescom has gotten a lot of attention for depicting Lara doing some pretty gruesome stuff. She uses a kitchen knife to tenderize a dude’s neck, bludgeons another bro with a bottle, then somehow accurately fires two arrows at once into as many oblivious h
Article
Reconsidering the epic violence in the God of War saga
An apologist’s take on one of videogames’ most violent series.
Review
Hatred is worth taking seriously
Hatred and the virtues of transgressive, ugly art.
Review
Not a Hero makes confetti from the tatters of modern democracy
The pixels and chiptunes of Not a Hero mask a game of brutal cynicism.