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A game about sacrificing villagers will challenge belief systems

A game about sacrificing villagers will challenge belief systems

3 min read News
Sometimes you have to make sacrifices. In publisher Kitfox Games’s upcoming The Shrouded Isle, those sacrifices are lives. It’s a cult village management game to be released in February 2017 by design lead Jongwoo Kim, writer Tanya Short, and artist Erica Lahaie. The Shrouded Isle is meant as a haun
The Aztec pessimism of A Machine for Pigs

The Aztec pessimism of A Machine for Pigs

7 min read feature
“When, for instance, a man had fallen into one of the rendering tanks and had been made into pure leaf lard and peerless fertilizer, there was no use letting the fact out and making his family unhappy.” —The Jungle, Upton Sinclair We are familiar with Aztec myth only insofar as it is a byword for cr