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...
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...
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...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance Still Fails to Deliver Representation
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is coming out this month. That struck me as sort of weird, given that February is Black History Month, and Deliverance has failed...
Anticipated Upcoming Games Without a Straight White Male Hero
Video game developers have become lazy and "safe" when it came to creating their protagonists. The straight while 30-something male image has not only...
How To Keep Your Service Provider From Throttling Your Bandwidth
People from all walks of life have access to the internet these days. More than ever before - and that number keeps growing by...
How Much Does It Cost to Buy Everything In Fortnite?
Fortnite is free to play, with no pay to win aspects. It only takes your money for cosmetic items. That accessible approach has made it a...
Anthem Reviews Aren’t Being Censored
Every few years the remnants of GamerGate re-emerges to attempt to construct an outrage over something. Between complaining about any form of diversity or...
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...