PC Gamer • 14th August 2022 How '90s interior design software laid the foundation for today's life sims The unsung influence of 3D home design programs.
Eurogamer • 10th August 2022 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.
The Verge • 3rd August 2022 These "CSS crimes" turn social media posts into games Cohost is a different vision for social networks
Tor • 1st August 2022 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.
PC Gamer • 1st August 2022 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.
Polygon • 26th July 2022 How EcoQuest brought Wikipedia into my childhood in 1993 Learning about other cultures through games, even if they’re not always 100% accurate
Polygon • 18th July 2022 Stray is the work of sly cat people, and it’s a triumph And yes, you can scratch the rugs
The Verge • 15th July 2022 An experimental horror ARG is testing the boundaries of AI art Horror is in the AI of the beholder
The Sixth Axis • 13th July 2022 Mothmen 1966 Review Thirty minutes into Mothmen 1966, it doesn’t take long for me to develop a favourite character...
Tor • 30th June 2022 Book Review: The City Inside by Samit Basu The best spec fic/cyberpunk writing is often less wikipedian and more of a wave...
The Verge • 28th June 2022 Jeeyon Shim carved a new path in crowdfunding for her keepsake games A more independent approach
PC Gamer • 24th June 2022 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.
Polygon • 16th June 2022 Nightmare Frames finds the horror in 1980s Hollywood Leaving LA can be a terror of its own in this point-and-click adventure
The Verge • 3rd June 2022 Apple TV’s Shining Girls is a genre-bending crime thriller Chicago isn’t a dreamland for Kirby
Tor • 19th May 2022 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.
Polygon • 18th May 2022 Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong is a gleeful RPG soap opera Courtly intrigue, but with fangs (and a decent number of bugs)
GamesIndustry.biz • 10th May 2022 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
Polygon • 3rd May 2022 Citizen Sleeper uses tabletop mechanics to play with the sci-fi RPG format No clean endings
Polygon • 25th April 2022 Dune: Spice Wars doesn’t bring anything new to the Dune table The strategy game has entered early access, with uneven results