No Escape
The moment that changed my life forever was November 2008, when I turned 16. For my birthday, my parents bought me my first guitar and amp, a left-handed Fender Squier and a tiny Marshall. I awkwardly (and poorly) taught myself music fundamentals on that motherfucker; I would join up with a high school friend and […]
It’s been a couple weeks since I rolled credits on Return to Grace, Creative Bytes Studios’ third game. It’s a nominal first-person adventure game where you play a future archaeologist on a suicide mission to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, to make contact with a long-dormant, possibly dead artificial intelligence that once controlled the entire Solar […]
Ten years ago, a bunch of bigoted fascist assholes used false pretenses to terrorize women, queer people and people of color in the video game industry, in games media, and even in academic games studies. These false pretenses – proven false at the time and repeatedly many times over in the years since – do […]
Hey so I haven’t really been writing a whole lot lately, but it’s for the usual reasons: exceptional depression, severe stun-lock related to ongoing current events both inside and outside video games, not really having much to write about games-wise at any rate. But that’s about to change, because I am forcing myself to write […]
“It’s always the same damn story with the same damn ending. So we told ourselves a different story, with a different ending.” Spoilers, naturally. So, I finished it. Like 3.2 million people, I watched the season finale of True Detective: Night Country. I’ve spent the last 36 hours hooting and hollering and I think I […]
This article is a spiritual sequel to “Can You Pet The Dog?” over at Deep-Hell. As Deep-Hell did, we want to take this opportunity to remind you that we are able to bring contributors on through the generosity of readers like you. How much faith do you put in one person? It’s the first question […]
It’s the Super Bowl, and that means we’re being inundated by all sorts of commercials and trailers for stuff we didn’t know we needed. One such trailer is the one that just dropped for Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 Jan De Bont-directed, Michael Crichton-written natural disaster movie starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Cary […]
Spoilers ahead. You know the drill. The first season of True Detective rocked the shit out of me. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson were incredible as two scumbags with badges on different sides of the shitpile trying to solve a fucked up murder in a place the rest of the world forgot. McConaughey’s Rust Cohle, […]
Roughly halfway through El Paso, Elsewhere you meet Draculae for the first time.
Saviors is the Warning of the post-American Idiot era of GREEN DAY’s discography*.