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On a brightly lit soundstage, two heavily made up drag queens look out at us, the audience outside the screen. They are bemused, observing without observing. Cognizant of the watchers they cannot see but just know will be there. “I’m…
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On Game Anthologies Like any type of media, video games are presented in the tried-and-true forms familiar to their audiences. Mini games, visual novels, and RPGs are as ubiquitous for games as short stories, chapbooks, and essay collections are for…
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Mini Metro was a pleasing, inoffensive game about creating a public train system. Its sequel, Mini Motorways, could easily be described as “the same, except it’s cars.” There is, however, a murkier underside to the follow-up title, which develops a…
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A short primer on Drakengard 3 and Xenofeminism (Spoilers for Hybrid Child and Drakengard 3 follow) One of Yoko Taro’s most lovingly cited sources of inspiration is the book Hybrid Child by Mariko Ohara. In this book, an immortal rogue…
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When I need to tamp down my intrusive thoughts, I usually browse the Steam store. There are at least three separate ways to filter and categorize on Steam, and using any of them is a Sisyphean chore. Clicking into the…
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Fanbyte’s gutting isn’t an unfortunate yet inevitable tragedy, and it’s time to tell these fucking corpo bosses to shove their algorithm up their ass.
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I’ve gone back and forth on whether it would be a good idea to write a post like this, given the always-falling-apart nature of this industry and the world we live in, generally. Posts like this tend to get labeled…
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I’ve been historically pretty up-front about my disdain for Call of Duty. I’ve mentioned it multiple times directly as a game series that is emblematic of the industry’s wider problems, and I even wrote a whole post about how the…
No Escape
Digital Culture and its Discontents