Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, the stand-alone expansion to 2016’s Dishonored 2, follows the story of Billie Lurk, the assassin Daud’s erstwhile protégé, and Corvo Attano […] Read More
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Pastiche is an aspect of post-modernism that involves borrowing from pre-existing aesthetics, cultures and time-periods when creating new work. It’s “the imitation of a peculiar […] Read More
Cuphead is a 2D platformer with run-and-gun gameplay reminiscent of classic games like Mega Man. What sets Cuphead apart from its predecessors is its unique aesthetic which pays […] Read More
I’m lying prone on a hill overlooking one of the many ramshackle towns that dot the island map of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Nestled against a nearby tree, […] Read More
One of the main NPCs in Destiny 2 isn’t one of the Guardians, those beings granted immortality by a giant alien orb known as the Traveler, but […] Read More
Bioshock Infinite’s floating city of Columbia is a fantasy. It’s a fantasy not only because it’s a picturesque turn-of-the century cluster of islands floating effortlessly through […] Read More
NetherRealm’s Injustice 2 is ostensibly a game about a group of superheroes getting together to fight an arch-villain named Brainiac. Brainiac threatens to abduct several cities before […] Read More
Nintendo’s Arms is a game about punching opponents with cartoonish, springy appendages where regular, non-extendable arms would normally go. In it, neon emblazoned characters duke it out […] Read More
This September saw the largest ever prison work strike in American history. On September 9th, the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, 24,000 prisoners at […] Read More
Prey’s Typhon monsters are seriously creepy. Whether it’s a run-in with a duplicitous mimic, a stalking phantom or those eerie, confounding telepaths, you’re likely to […] Read More
Looking back at the spy genre’s vast catalogue of films, novels and games, it’s hard not to notice the paucity of black leads. When it […] Read More
Bungie, by presenting a narrative paint-job for Destiny’s multiplayer, takes a departure from its previous first-person shooters. It marries its main storyline – about a humanity […] Read More
Though it may seem silly, I find the ease with which I can buy video games to be a useful metric of my success as […] Read More
During a recent session playing Arkane’s Dishonored 2 I found myself stuffed into the attic crawl space of the Addermire Institute with my dead lover’s heart in my […] Read More
Over the past few years, there has been notable improvement to the range of representation in games. Last year alone saw two separate big-budget titles […] Read More
The cost of modernization has driven people into cities where we earn increasingly isolated livings. A person feels as alone in their car crawling along in […] Read More
The recently released first-person shooter, Titanfall 2 has you playing as the novice pilot of a “Titan,” a two-story-tall military robot that can be climbed into and […] Read More
Science fiction works best when it uses fantastic worlds to comment on our real one. Paul Verhoeven’s dystopic run of films in the 1980s were […] Read More
Playdead’s Inside and Id Software’s Doom were lauded on release for smart game design, sharp aesthetic execution, and for some pretty clever mechanics. But both also have something to […] Read More
In December 1890, a group of artists decided to break off from the well-established Paris Salon — the dominant venue for artists to exhibit their […] Read More
I recently watched Breaking a Monster, a documentary by Luke Meyer about the band Unlocking the Truth, made up of three 13-year-old black kids from Brooklyn who […] Read More
Games have long relied on the narrative of heroic struggle against overwhelming odds to support their most popular mechanic: shooting men and collecting loot. Whether […] Read More
The Fallout franchise of games take place in an alternate universe, one in which the United States totally embraced nuclear weapons and technology after winning […] Read More