How '90s interior design software laid the foundation for today's life sims
The unsung influence of 3D home design programs.
How Nokia ringtones became the first viral earworms
Ring, ring
Someone should make a game about: pop band fight clubs
Hello! Welcome back to a stray installment of our occasional series, Someone Should Make a Game About. This week Alexis looks at the glory days of pop.
These "CSS crimes" turn social media posts into games
Cohost is a different vision for social networks
Book Review: Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan
There’s a certain strain of post-apocalyptic speculative fiction that gives off a curious prairiecore vibe.
The world's first syndicated game journalist was an 11-year-old kid
In the early '80s, Rawson Stovall started reviewing Atari games for the local paper. Before long he was the first syndicated game critic.
How EcoQuest brought Wikipedia into my childhood in 1993
Learning about other cultures through games, even if they’re not always 100% accurate
Stray is the work of sly cat people, and it’s a triumph
And yes, you can scratch the rugs
An experimental horror ARG is testing the boundaries of AI art
Horror is in the AI of the beholder
Mothmen 1966 Review
Thirty minutes into Mothmen 1966, it doesn’t take long for me to develop a favourite character...
Book Review: The City Inside by Samit Basu
The best spec fic/cyberpunk writing is often less wikipedian and more of a wave...
Jeeyon Shim carved a new path in crowdfunding for her keepsake games
A more independent approach
Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a perfect portrait of a cyberpunk city fighting for revolution
If cyberpunk lives on, Shadowrun: Hong Kong should be its guiding light.
Nightmare Frames finds the horror in 1980s Hollywood
Leaving LA can be a terror of its own in this point-and-click adventure
Apple TV’s Shining Girls is a genre-bending crime thriller
Chicago isn’t a dreamland for Kirby
Book Review: All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
My first foray into Guy Gavriel Kay’s writing has been one of the most artful instances of unintentional edging I’ve had in a long time.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong is a gleeful RPG soap opera
Courtly intrigue, but with fangs (and a decent number of bugs)
How studios support their devs in wartime
From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the civil war in Yemen to military rule in Myanmar, developers are adapting to conflict around the world
Citizen Sleeper uses tabletop mechanics to play with the sci-fi RPG format
No clean endings
Dune: Spice Wars doesn’t bring anything new to the Dune table
The strategy game has entered early access, with uneven results
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