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2024 -
December 2024 — Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Let the Old Die by Yussef Cole
October 2024 — Silent Hill 2
There Was a Soul Here … by Astrid Anne Rose
...But You Never Did by Ed Smith
Restful Dreams by Reid McCarter
They Should Have Made a Hundred Silent Hill 2s By Now by Ed Smith
Nurse With Wound by Astrid Anne Rose
September 2024 — Soma
A Difference in the End by Grace Benfell
My Brain Is Bleeding by Reid McCarter
It's Always Heads by Joshua Calixto
Ideologies Kinda Feller by Ed Smith
August 2024 — Faith
Next to God by Yussef Cole
The Unkind-Faced Buddha by Chris Breault
Far Cry 5 Offers Nothing to Believe In by Astrid Rose
Blood, Shit, and Shower Water by Reid McCarter
July 2024 — Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
The Revelation of Sin by Cameron Kunzelman
monster girls tease the zoetrope massacre by Pao Yumol
Boundless Appetites by Yussef Cole
Book of Flowers by Ashley Bardhan
June 2024 — Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Always in the Eye by Grace Benfell
A Story Part Told by Jay Castello
Those Puzzles Where You Line Up Parts of the Environment by Ed Smith
Seeing Beyond the Veil by Yussef Cole
May 2024 — Dragon's Dogma 2
The Pawn by Kazuma Hashimoto
The Stone Garden by Lewis Gordon
Learning the Script by Renata Price
The Human Hand by Reid McCarter
April 2024 — Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Dead in Love by Reid McCarter
Haunted Objects by Yussef Cole
Ghost of the Week by Gareth Damian Martin
March 2024 — Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Too-Open World by Reid McCarter
Death Again by Yussef Cole
It's Not Just the Wildfires by Autumn Wright
flowers yet bloom in this rotted church by Pao Yumol
February 2024 — The Order: 1886
The Old World Dying/The Time of Monsters by Reid McCarter
Still Too Long, and Not Linear Enough by Ed Smith
Choices by Emma Kostopolus
Playing the Cameraman by Yussef Cole
January 2024 — RoboCop: Rogue City
Nothing's Shocking by Reid McCarter
Playing with Toys, Smashing Plastic by Yussef Cole
You Don't Want to Feel Like RoboCop by Chris Breault
The Messages on the Screen by Ed Smith
2023 -
December 2023 — Cyberpunk 2077 + Phantom Liberty
Cyberpunk 2077 in Bullet Points by Ed Smith
Monuments to Futility by Pao Yumol
Glory by Reid McCarter
Hitting a Wall by Yussef Cole
November 2023 — Alan Wake II
The Wisdom of Uncertainty by Jon Bailes
Your Safety's Off, Evil Twin by Reid McCarter
Television is More Fun Than Mirrors by Ed Smith
October 2023 — Starfield
My Favourite Scenery and Yours' by Reid McCarter
Everyone in Constellation is a Psychopath by Ed Smith
A Recursive Universe by Jay Castello
September 2023 — Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
The Freelancer by Yussef Cole
Burn It All, Dance in the Flames by Joshua Calixto
She Had a Body by Autumn Wright
On Borrowed Wings by Don Everhart
August 2023 — System Shock (2023)
The Hacker is Lost by Reid McCarter
Nostalgic Systems by Yussef Cole
One Space Station’s Trash, Another Man's Treasure by Khee Hoon Chan
June 2023 — Amnesia: The Bunker
Good Gun by Ed Smith
Yearning, Once More, to Forget by Pao Yumol
The Amnesiac Remembers by Steven Nguyen Scaife
All Alone by Reid McCarter
May 2023 — Spec Ops: The Line
They Made Us Do It by Reid McCarter
End of the Line by Yussef Cole
R U Still in 2 It by Ed Smith
Reflections: A Discussion About Spec Ops: The Line by Grace Benfell and Cameron Kunzelman
April 2023 — Resident Evil 4 (2023)
Political Monsters by Kazuma Hashimoto
And Then There Are Things We Don't Remake by Ed Smith
Nightmare Carnival by Yussef Cole
Scary-Scary by Reid McCarter
March 2023 — Like a Dragon: Ishin!
And So the Balance Shifts by Autumn Wright
Putting on the Blue Coat by Chris Breault
A Two-Faced Man by Reid McCarter
February 2023 — Dead Space (2023)
Looking For Isaac Clarke’s Voice by Khee Hoon Chan
The Way the Blood Drips Off Isaac’s Suit by Ed Smith
Your Brain is Made of Meat by Julie Muncy
One Day, This Videogame Will Be Perfect by Reid McCarter
Too Much Memory by Yussef Cole
January 2023 — The Callisto Protocol
Imprisoned Fantasy by Yussef Cole
The Protocol by Ed Smith
They Weren't People by Ruth Cassidy
A Hard Man in Outer Space by Reid McCarter
2022 -
December 2022 — God of War Ragnarök
One Shot Isn't Enough by Phillip Russell
God is Dead. But God is Still Dad by Jess Joho
Objectively Good by Jon Bailes
Killing Gods, Feeling Bad by Reid McCarter
November 2022 — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Three Minutes by Kaile Hultner
Complicity Problem by Ed Smith
Going Loud by Reid McCarter
October 2022 — Halloween Horror 2022
Another Corpse, Another Monument by Grace Benfell
Something To Do With People by Ed Smith
Implicated in the Ritual by Yussef Cole
Rigged Game by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
September 2022 — The Last of Us Part I
A Totem by Yussef Cole
Please Don't Take My Apocalypse Away by Ed Smith
The White Hairs in His Beard by Reid McCarter
July 2022 — Death Stranding Revisited
Infinitely Full of Hope by Lewis Gordon
The Road to Heaven by Alexis Ong
The Unbearable Weight of Letting Go by David Wolinsky
Tracing a Body by Grace Benfell
Don't Be So Serious by Ed Smith
Blood, Shit, and Shower Water by Reid McCarter
Laboring in Death by Yussef Cole
June 2022 — Climate
Natural Reclamation by Cian Maher
The Bristling Presence by Jay Castello
There is No Punctual Moment of Disaster by Autumn Wright
Fighting for Lost Causes by Jon Bailes
May 2022 — Ghostwire: Tokyo
Folk Futures by Cian Maher
Real Reality by David Shimomura
Immortal Greed by Yussef Cole
Built on Bodies by Andrew Kiya
We're All Alive in Stories by Reid McCarter
April 2022 — Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
Dreams of Power/ Power of Dreams by Gareth Damian Martin
Sacred Resource by Yussef Cole
Whose Legend Are We Becoming? by Kaile Hultner
March 2022 — Elden Ring
Could This Be Quixotic? by Nick Capozzoli
The House with Ten-Foot Hedges by Gwil Jones
Going in Alone by Alexis Ong
Next to God by Yussef Cole
A Magnificent Beast, Doomed to Ruin by Reid McCarter
January 2022 — Halo Infinite
Awake on Foreign Shores by Molly Zara-Esther Bloch
Shades Reborn by Julie Muncy
Dust and Echoes by Rosarie Teppelin
Insert Chip by Cameron Kunzelman
Halo, Infinite by Reid McCarter
2021 -
December 2021 — Battlefield 2042
Why Bother? by Cole Henry
Shooting for the End by Reid McCarter
November 2021 — Far Cry 6
Fly Fishing by David Shimomura
Revolution Without Community by Grace Benfell
This Game Doesn't Exist by Reid McCarter
Interchangeable Parts by Yussef Cole
October 2021 — Deathloop
Material Histories by Gareth Damian Martin
A Self-Effacing System by Hirun Cryer
Out of Time by Yussef Cole
Embracing the Artificial by Reid McCarter
September 2021 — Games as Service
Destiny Anxiety by Yussef Cole
The Spectre of Gacha Oblivion by Kazuma Hashimoto
August 2021 — Best of 2020
Other Flesh by Molly Zara-Esther Bloch
Destroyed in the Cut by Cameron Kunzelman
The World Unsettled by Lotus
Unearthly Forms by Cian Maher
July 2021 — Biomutant
Eight Theses on Biomutation by Cameron Kunzelman
There is No Punctual Moment of Disaster by Autumn Wright
Second Chances at the End of the World by Reid McCarter
June 2021 — Resident Evil Village
The Silent "U" by Gareth Damian Martin
A Snake Eating its Tail by Emma Kostopolus
Ubisoftification by Ed Smith
Sweet Home by Reid McCarter
May 2021 — Nier Replicant ver.1.22
The Price of Authorship by Joshua Calixto
A Growing Perspective by Rosarie Teppelin
Tragedy of the Ancients by Julie Muncy
This World and Everybody In It by Reid McCarter
April 2021 — Outriders
War Machine by Khee Hoon Chan
Profane Solidarity by Diego Nicolás Argüello
Cycles by Yussef Cole
Cartoon Apocalypse, Now by Reid McCarter
March 2021 — The Medium
A Hopeless State by Ty Galiz-Rowe
Maternal Forces by Yussef Cole
Cutting Edge by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Living the Past by Reid McCarter
January 2021 — Cyberpunk 2077
The Consensual Hallucination by Astrid Anne Rose
Other Flesh by Molly Zara-Esther Bloch
Spectacular by Autumn Wright
Do Consumers Dream of Electric Phalluses? by Jon Bailes
Reinforcing the Gender Binary by Kazuma Hashimoto
The Cool Kids Club by Maddi Chilton
Trash Heart by Reid McCarter
2020 -
December 2020 — Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Fleeing From Fate by Yussef Cole
Humans of Jorvik by Matt Margini
The Bristling Presence by Jay Castello
Once More at Its Source by Reid McCarter
November 2020 — Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Blank Ops by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Vietnam Syndrome by Yussef Cole
Worse Guys by Reid McCarter
October 2020 — Halloween Horror 2020 (Feat. Amnesia)
The Machinery of Complicity by Gavin Craig
Mother of Empire by Reid McCarter
Our Lord, the Flayed God by Sam Zucchi
First-Person Disconnect by Dani Maddox
September 2020 — Spiritfarer/Necrobarista
Waiting Room by Reid McCarter
Undeath and Still Life by Violet Adele Bloch
Intertwined by Yussef Cole
Back and Forth on Spiritfarer by Yussef Cole and Reid McCarter
August 2020 — Ghost of Tsushima
The End of Honor by Sisi Jiang
A Shallow Understanding by Haru Nicol
Join or Die by David Shimomura
The Spectre of Fascism by Andrew Kiya
July 2020 — The Last of Us Part II
Destroyed in the Cut by Cameron Kunzelman
Absent Mothers by Natalie Flores
Natural Reclamation by Cian Maher
Their World by Yussef Cole
Remedial Studies by Reid McCarter
June 2020 — Pathologic 2
The World Unsettled by Lotus
Removing the Mask by Reid McCarter
Difficult Stress by Yussef Cole
A Travel Guide to the Town With No Name by Julie Muncy
May 2020 — Final Fantasy VII Remake
Degendering the Dress by Autumn Wright
Little Nuance by Amanda Hudgins
Nostalgia Animated by Yussef Cole
Fighting for Lost Causes by Jon Bailes
April 2020 — DOOM Eternal
The Forever War by Yussef Cole
We Shall Know No Fear by Jeremy Signor
In Doom We Have Faith by Diego Nicolás Argüello
Eternal Content by Reid McCarter
March 2020 — Kentucky Route Zero
The World Spins by Julie Muncy
Theatrical Spaces by Yussef Cole
Name a Game About Kentucky by Amanda Hudgins
Leaving Home by Reid McCarter
February 2020 — Winter Games
Bespoke Coziness by Nico Deyo
Easing the Long Trek by Shonté Murray-Daniels
Huddled Together by Reid McCarter
The Sacred Engine by Yussef Cole
January 2020 — Death Stranding
It's Kojima Time by Zack Kotzer
Death Stranding Begs Us to Work Together by Alex Dalbey-Thomas
Unearthly Forms by Cian Maher
The Long Haul by Chris Breault
2019 -
December 2019 — The 2010s in Review
The Puzzle Box of the Open World by Cameron Kunzelman
Hammer Smashed Face by Astrid Rose
Paying Attention by Will Partin
The Shape of Videogames To Come by Tara Hillegeist
November 2019 — Disco Elysium
The World is a Tough Place, but We All Live in It by Reid McCarter
Chaos as Canon by Joshua Calixto
A Hallucinatory Plea by Maddi Chilton
Dick Mullen and the Miracle Plot by Chris Breault
October 2019 — Halloween Horror 2019
Making the Right Choices in The Man of Medan by Reid McCarter
Devotion, Delusion, and Design Honesty by Daniel Fries
Nurse With Wound by Astrid Rose
My Cool Friend, Blood by Zack Kotzer
September 2019 — Control
A Loose Grip on Reality by Reid McCarter
Falsework by Nick Capozzoli
Taking Control by Emma Kidwell
The Banality of Control by Cameron Kunzelman
August 2019 — Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Faceless Murderers by Blake Hester
Imitating Family by Alex Dalbey
Killing Nuance by Reid McCarter
The Infinite Zeppelin by Ed Smith
July 2019 — Judgment
Real Justice by Reid McCarter
Street Level Judgment by Yussef Cole
Playing for Time by Chris Breault
Lack of Judgment by Ed Smith
June 2019 — Duke Nukem Forever
Duke Nukem Forever and Ever by Reid McCarter
Hail to the Kings by Ed Smith
The Hive by Nicole Carpenter
What'd You Expect? by David Wolinsky
May 2019 — Best of 2018
The Failure of Caricature in Wolfenstein II by Alex Dalbey
The Boss’s Head by Chris Breault
All Their Engines by Tara Hillegeist
Women Out of Date by Esther Wright
April 2019 — Sekiro
The Master Swordsman by Reid McCarter
There’s Hard and There’s Hard by Ed Smith
The Unkind-Faced Buddha by by Chris Breault
New Game Plus by Daniel Fries
March 2019 — Anthem
Consuming the World by Reid McCarter
There But For the Grace of Games, Go I by Ed Smith
Once More Unto the Tyrant Mine, Dear Friends by Ethan Gach
Today, I Felt Nothing by Tara Hillegeist
February 2019 — Resident Evil 2
Uncanny, Real by Reid McCarter
Real Horror Show by Ed Smith
Her Body, Herself by Astrid Rose
Mastering the Imperfect Arsenal by Joshua Calixto
January 2019 — Hitman 2
A Fantasy of Competence by Astrid B
Richly Deserved by Reid McCarter
Splitting Sides by Ed Smith
Small Violent Worlds by Yussef Cole
2018 -
December 2018 — Battlefield V
The War We All Wanted by Ed Smith
The Face of Battle by Chris Breault
Back and Forth on Battlefield V by Reid McCarter & Ed Smith
A Sad, Fun Story by Reid McCarter
November 2018 — Red Dead Redemption 2
The Daguerreotype, Real by Julie Muncy
Women Out of Date by Esther Wright
Up, In Smoke by Ed Smith
A Good Man by Reid McCarter
October 2018 — Halloween Horror 2018
The Fear of Waiting by Emma Kidwell
The Violent Image by Astrid B
The Nightmare Was Always the Same by Ed Smith
A Properly Recorded Ghost by Reid McCarter
September 2018 — Yakuza Series
The Boss's Head by Chris Breault
Love and Hate in Kamurocho by Reid McCarter
Better Living Through Fistfights by Astrid B
Money for Nothing by Ed Smith
August 2018 — DOOM
All Their Engines by Tara Hillegeist
Destroy Erase Improve by Astrid B
This Game Has People in It by Ed Smith
Exorcise the Demons by Reid McCarter
July 2018 — Best of Bullet Points
Hitman Brings Class to Murder by Robert Rath
The Last of Us, Logan, and the ‘Apocalypse Daddy' by Jess Joho
BioShock Infinite: Whose Fantasy? by Yussef Cole
The Erotic Death Drive of Nier: Automata by Julie Muncy
June 2018 — Vampyr
Jonathan Reid, Moral Immortal by Daniel Fries
Dead and Hating It by Astrid B
A Fellow of 500 XP by Ed Smith
The Slow Death of the Imperial Vampyr by Reid McCarter
May 2018 — God of War
How to Talk to Your Dying Father by Chris Breault
God of War's Warring Parents by Ed Smith
More, More, More in God of War by Astrid B
Killing Gods, Feeling Great by Reid McCarter
April 2018 — Far Cry 5
Liberty, License, and Leviathan by Gavin Craig
Far Cry 5’s Hyper-Videogamification by Ed Smith
Far Cry 5 Offers Nothing to Believe In by Astrid B
Far Cry 5 Militarizes Faith in America by Reid McCarter
March 2018 — Metal Gear Survive
Covering the Map Game with Dust by Julie Muncy
In Metal Gear Survive, Survival is Impossible by Ed Smith
Metal Gear Survive Strips its Legacy for Parts by Astrid B
The Many Deaths of Metal Gear Survive by Reid McCarter
February 2018 — Metro 2033 & Last Light
Metro’s Fractured Apocalypse Hints at the Costs of Segregation by Yussef Cole
Discussing Metro, Videogame Pulp, and Genre by Reid McCarter and Ed Smith
Metro 2033's Apocalyptic Problem by Astrid B
Mechanical Items as Theatrical Props in Metro by Ed Smith
January 2018 — Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
The Failure of Caricature in Wolfenstein II by Alex Dalbey
Wolfenstein II's Fashionable Rebellion by Ed Smith
Wolfenstein II in the Age of Trump by Astrid B
Rewriting History in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus by Reid McCarter