Review

What Do We Fear in Our Bodies?

Once famously justified by Freud, pop culture’s fixation on human excrement is a strange phenomenon. Yannick LeJacq looks at Postal III and wonders why this has never transferred successfully to videogames.

Fight! Ow, Stop!

Where do we draw the line between reality and fantasy? Richard Clark argues it’s where the first punch connects with his face.

The Untold Depths of Snake Eating

We can try to make sense of the sound and the fury of Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D as it escalates and unravels. But maybe we don’t need to.

The Mass Effect Is Not What You Thought

Everything looks wrong at first about BioWare’s final space opera. It turns out the makers gutted Mass Effect 3 to make it right. Here are their conclusions about humanity.