A Dog Tale, or the death of mystery
On the strange power of unremarkable games.
ps1 week
Final Fantasy VIII and awkwardness
Revisiting the cringiest Final Fantasy.
The right controller for three-dimensional spaces
The Dual Shock controller has only been refined, not improved.
The best ’90s-era Bruce Willis movie is a baffling videogame you never played
Rage and sarcasm in Neversoft’s Apocalypse.
Crash Bandicoot and the end of videogame mascots
The PlayStation straddled the divide between cartoon and realism.
A grown-ass man replays Final Fantasy VII
The greatest game ever made, and the problem of memory.
The semiotics of controller design
Circle, Square, Triangle, and X.
The impossible architecture of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Konami came close to making Piranesi’s imaginary prisons real.
PlayStation Underground as existential crisis
When nostalgia inverts on itself.
Tomb Raider and the riot-grrrl feminism of the ’90s
The conflicted birth and legacy of Lara Croft.