Battlefield 1’s Diversity Failure Ignores History
Rumors that the next Battlefield would take place in World War I swirled for months. When Battlefield 1 debuted in May 2016, blood-soaked trenches,...
The Real Women Resistance Fighters that Inspired Call of Duty: WWII
After years of meandering about in modern and futurist space wars, Call of Duty is finally going back to its roots - World War...
You Won’t Like the Solution to the Loot Box Problem
There's no such thing as a good loot box, all of them are capital 'B' for Bad no matter which way you slice them....
“No Skill” Heroes: Ableism With a Side of Misogyny in Overwatch
Overwatch is full of heroes with a variety of abilities, including those who don’t require traditional first person shooter skills like aiming and twitch reflexes...
Authentically Combat Gun Violence With Thoughts & Prayers: The Game
As America struggles with its epidemic of gun violence, many citizens feel powerless. Fortunately, there is an app for that in the form of...
Butterfly Soup: The Bisexual Visual Novel We’ve Been Waiting For
There are three main things you have to know about Butterfly Soup, 1) It's very, very gay, 2) It's also very, very bi, and...
You’ll Never Guess Who I Interviewed About Detective Pikachu
Unless you guessed normal, not talking Pikachu. Then yeah. You did guess it. I was so thankful to have an opportunity to interview the...
Honest Mental Health and Night in The Woods
Video Games don’t have a fantastic record of depicting mental health. The increasing attention on plot focused games has shown the medium is pretty...
Sediment is Minecraft Meets Radical Leftist Art Installation
In Sediment, the new exploration game from prolific leftist dev, Colestia, capitalism is presented as a literal pyramid scheme.
It’s almost impossible to talk about...
Disconnected: A Marxist Interpretation
Game developer Reb is immediately frank about their project Disconnected. They refer to it as a short walking simulator “made mainly as a test...
Some Relaxing Lo-Fi Gaming Playlists
Have you ever noticed that long-running YouTube Livestream of an anime girl studying? It claims to be perfect music to study/chill too, and it...
PSA: Making Video Games is Hard, Don’t Be a Dillweed
This just in: making video games is hard. Breaking news, I know!
Each year thousands upon thousands of games, big and small, hit the physical...
What Hellblade Reminded Me About Living With Depression
The shaman is the person, male or female, who…has an overwhelming psychological experience that turns him totally inward. The whole unconscious opens up, and...
Running of The Trolls benefits The Trevor Project
World of Warcraft’s Running of the Gnomes has been going on since 2010, seeing thousands of pink haired gnomes race to raise money for...
Don’t Let Ready Player One Sell You Your Identity
Ready, Player One? Dig up your artifacts, still warm from hype and channel static. Excavate your chipped neo-antiques; line the walls of your museum...
Inclusivity in Overwatch Continues to Improve
At his recent DICE Summit talk, director Jeff Kaplan mentioned again the importance of inclusivity in Overwatch. This has been a continued rhetoric of...