Review: Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
Brainwyrms isn’t just the story of Frankie and Vanya—two woefully broken people who take refuge in a fragile relationship...
Alan Wake 2 review - incredible style, overbearing writing
Horror show.
Poirot’s genius eludes the new Murder on the Orient Express game
A puzzle-filled Agatha Christie adaptation makes a few puzzling choices
Pokémon Sleep helped me catch ’em all — all the z’s, that is
The mobile app isn’t for everyone, but for one insomniac, Pikachu and Snorlax made a big difference.
Review: The World Wasn't Ready for You by Justin C. Key
Treading neatly between body horror, surveillance-state science fiction, and existential dread, Justin C. Key’s debut short story collection The World Wasn’t Ready For You is an unassuming portal to a much stranger, slyer world.
Star Trek: Infinite review - it's a good day to wait for mods
Captain's slog.
The Making of Karateka
The Making of Karateka is great. The entire industry developing docugames just like it would be even better.
Goodbye Volcano High review - killer tunes soundtrack a teen drama for the ages
Sonic youth.
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood review - dealing a powerful hand
Charm in spades.
Review: More Perfect by Temi Oh
Reading dystopian hypersurveillance fiction is always uncomfortably personal for me because it’s already a present-day reality in a lot of cities...
Diablo 4 Season 1 is a hell of my own making
Add-to-cart disease.
In spacefaring management sim The Banished Vault, no one can hear me scream
For these exiled monks, the Gloom is the little death that brings total obliteration
Diablo 4’s onslaught of MMO features hints at a questionable live-service future
The writing has improved, but the organic tension has largely evaporated
Yellowjackets’ excellent cast pulls it through an uneven second season
The cannibal soccer show leans a little too hard on nostalgia as it gets increasingly complex.
Diablo 4 activates and frustrates my lizard brain
More busywork doesn’t lessen the series-signature lootfest appeal
A trip to Dyson’s dirt-filled, germ-obsessed world
Dyson invited me to spend two days inside its hyper-clean universe to see what’s next and why it’s trying to scrub every hidden bit of filth from our homes.
Plugged in and logged on: a history of the internet on film and TV
From Hackers to the X-Files, being online has long been depicted as a deliberate, physical act on screen.
Diet Culture Dystopia: The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter
The most immediately noticeable thing about Chana Porter’s The Thick and the Lean, particularly for a reader who had...
Age of Wonders 4 lets you build high-fantasy civilizations — at a cost
The long-awaited sequel teeters too far into RPG narratives to be a truly great 4X game
Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly review - a little less refined than the original blend
Here's the tea.
Yellowjackets season 2 is more of an appetizer than a feast
The gruesome mystery returns, but it’s lacking some of the punch that made the first season so potent.
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By ALEXIS ONG
Arctic survival sim The Pale Beyond is as messy as it is compelling
Following in the footsteps of The Terror
Playdate’s failure to launch in Malaysia
The tiny handheld was manufactured in Southeast Asia, but the realities of global shipping have kept it out of the hands of local gamers.lty, nostalgia, creative experimentation, and a return t
The real fantasy in Final Fantasy XIV is owning a damn house
Finding a place to call your own in Eorzea is a bureaucratic nightmare.
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