The Video Game Industry Is a Microcosm of DecayVenting about the ruinous state of the video game industry, in 2024 and beyond.May 92May 92
The False Revival of AAA Horror GamesA scattered examination of AAA horror game history, loosely examining an industry’s continual inability to find or fund new nightmares.Apr 10Apr 10
Purgatorial TormentA loose remembrance of P.T. The horror in repetition, Silent Hills, and what wails from the graveyard of lost and haunting futures.Apr 1Apr 1
The Thing About The Thing (1982)The Thing ends with an iconic question, but is the compulsion to answer it healthy?Mar 112Mar 112
For All Mankind (1989) & Artificial DistortionFor All Mankind is a film about what it felt like to go to the Moon. Ascending into a blackness beyond conception, we find something more.Jan 13Jan 13
The Game Awards Sucks 2023 Edition, or Geoff Keighley in: The Warlock of WimbledonMy last thoughts on The Game Awards, which is an advertising revenue farm that gives out trophies it pretends to care about. Free…Dec 9, 20232Dec 9, 20232
“VR Game of the Year” Reads a Fading Neon Sign Outside of a Dying MallA look at the current state of virtual reality, a once-burgeoning art razed by corporate malpractice, and how it might one day be…Nov 25, 20232Nov 25, 20232
Appreciating Alan Wake’s Adverb ApocalypseAlan Wake wears the veil of pulp horror with all the silliness it entails, hiding a valuable message about art under its surface.Nov 20, 20233Nov 20, 20233
Ten Seconds to MidnightSome virtual worlds become abandoned, but others abandon themselves. What happens when an Animal Crossing town drifts away from reality?Jul 11, 20231Jul 11, 20231
There’s This Moment in Silent Hill 2Dissecting a specific moment from Silent Hill 2 and providing the framework for a more disquieting kind of scare.May 8, 20232May 8, 20232
