Our Motives Are Complex
Charting the evolution of Uchikoshi and his team's thematic interest in ludic narrative.
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A Soul-Injecting Conversation With Jeremy Couillard
On videogames, his latest release, weed, the art world, and our gooning culture.
Everything Old is New Again
Sticks and stones won't break his bones, but they really should.
Never Give Up The Fight
A look back at environmentalist themes in the Sonic games—and how Sega might jeopardize them.
Object Lesson
Learning and unlearning the rules of Stray Children.
Court of Ash
Visions of post-apocalypse, real and imagined.
This Sacred Body / This Bloody Mind
A Zero Parades review for Dead Spies.
Dear Brother, Have Some Sake With Me
What so consistently drives a girl-like organism to the toxic yakuza sibling experience?
The Women Who Kill Are the Ones That Saved Me
Navigating my identity with the help of two important assassins
Thin Liminal Lines
"Reality is often less interesting than fiction."
Skating Through The Mire of Fear
On Healing, Creation, and Connection in Skate Story.
Like a Hero(ine)
How the Yakuza series uses the Hero's Journey and its shadowed feminine counterpart.
Battlefield 6
A Vivisection of Battlefield 6
Battlefield 6 has arguably saved the franchise. But at what cost?
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Post Punk Sympathy
And critical support for the pervert's revenge.
Assassin's Creed
Everything is Permitted
"I've never been one for politics." "You are a politician in your own way."
Consume Me
A Consumer Childhood
Fast Food, Wii Fit, and Consume Me.
Paradise Killer
You Proved Your Weakness By Sending Me To The Moon
No crime is worth eternity.
SWOLLEN TO BURSTING UNTIL I AM DISAPPEARING ON PURPOSE
And Then You Keep Living
A flying saucer has crash-landed in town. A friend of yours has recently died. But it’s Thursday, so you have to go to work.
Planescape: Torment
Only You
An undying man without a name, a woman draped in layers of LONGING. Reminiscing through Planescape: Torment.
Dragon Quest VII
God Won't Forgive You For Following His Will
The secularization of Dragon Quest.
Pathologic 3
Playing The Plague Doctor
A Pathologic 3 review for Pathologic sickos
Depression Quest
No Good Options
And damn it, we are gonna figure something out, if it takes me all night.
2025
2025 Roundup
A letter from 'the editor', her top 10 games of 2025, and Stop Caring GOTY.
Untitled Paper RPG
Pay Attention to Incomplete Games
Untitled Paper RPG shows us that the allure of unfinished games lie in the tantalizing promise of what they could have been.