Skeleton (they/them) of DEEP HEEL DOT COM joins me to discuss the site’s identity, our frustrations with the state of games writing (go away Kotaku), and the importance of building alternative media that is not embedded with advertising and a callous middle-class aesthetic.
Read MoreGames media as it exists today is entirely incapable of healing itself. It exists as a half dozen atomized outlets, each an appendage to a larger media company, reliant on platforms and technologies far outside their control. Games media is in an eternal suspended animation, its budget always getting cut, staff perpetually in line for the chopping block, access and resources held over writers by studios and media empires. It is capitalism in microcosm. The holes will never be patched, the sense of impending doom is baked into the fabric that holds these outlets (momentarily) together.
Read MoreThe Last Survey is a two (arguably one) man play about justifications and the failure of modern liberalism to try to both hold on to capitalism and appear sympathetic to our concerns. It holds you in this limbo and dares you to justify your way out.
Read MoreWe need more games like Tonight We Riot and Anarcute, and more which go beyond what either of these is capable of saying.
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