Interviews
Every wrestling fan knows that wrestling has an element of homoeroticism, but their responses to that vary. Some ignore it, some joke about it, and some, like comics writer Elizabeth Brie and artist K...
The tension between the comfort of the familiar and the surprise of the unexpected is at the core of why watching wrestling is fun. Much of the time, the familiar comes in the form of the performers t...
All Walls Must Fall is the brainchild of four developers behind 2012’s celebrated action game Spec Ops: The Line. Set in an alternate-history Berlin where the wall nev...
10 years ago, the city of Malton underwent a government-imposed quarantine due to a zombie outbreak. Not literally, but virtually. This happened in a browser-based online game called Urban Dead...
The Shrouded Isle is a “cult village management simulator.” That’s the tagline for the game on the website. You manage a village of cultists. Imagine a visual novel about ancient gods with a si...
Fitting most indie games into a clean and tidy category or genre is usually an exercise in futility. Many indie studios make evocative, surprising, and entirely unique experiences that you just can’t...
“I’m in art college,” explains Leighton Gray, art director and co-creator of Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator. “We were talking about furry culture and Fursonas and all the different perso...
Is this a fairly standard thing for an MMO to do, to bring a psychology expert in to talk to them?
There are many moral and philosophical arguments to be made about why diversity in games matters. Unfortunately, there are also many people who remain unmoved by those arguments. Trying to change peop...
Games are fun. For most people who play games, that’s a pretty obvious statement. Games can help us relax, connect with other people, and even exercise our brains. All in all, games can be a good use...
With the recent release of planet-colonization sim Planetbase, combined with four swift patches to it, we’ve seen another example of the fine line between a bug and a feature. After its release on Oct...
