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Essay 335
- May 20, 2024 A taste of paradise May 20, 2024
- May 10, 2024 Empires and The Dancing Mad May 10, 2024
- Feb 10, 2024 Toyhouses of ones and zeros Feb 10, 2024
- Sep 25, 2023 And there will be no one to cross the Rubicon Sep 25, 2023
- Sep 17, 2023 Terraforming Oddworld Sep 17, 2023
- Mar 28, 2023 Legacy of Gay-n Mar 28, 2023
- Feb 14, 2023 Transmutations: an owch analysis Feb 14, 2023
- Nov 27, 2022 Silent Hill, Rule of Rose, and the aesthetics of nightmares Nov 27, 2022
- Oct 31, 2022 6,303 days in quarantine Oct 31, 2022
- Sep 16, 2022 The Endless Possibilities of Transness in Sonic Unleashed Sep 16, 2022
- Aug 23, 2022 What Comes After the wholesome end? Aug 23, 2022
- Aug 9, 2022 Another Night in the Woods Aug 9, 2022
- Mar 18, 2022 Souls as a service Mar 18, 2022
- Mar 12, 2022 STRUGGLE! Soft lock picking and pursuing the nadir of gameplay Mar 12, 2022
- Dec 29, 2021 And they look like me Dec 29, 2021
- Dec 12, 2021 Paradise lost Dec 12, 2021
- Dec 5, 2021 No war crimes in chat Dec 5, 2021
- Oct 12, 2021 Choose your fighter Oct 12, 2021
- Sep 13, 2021 Sugiyama's only lonely boy Sep 13, 2021
- Sep 6, 2021 And you were there: loneliness and community in Yume Nikki Sep 6, 2021
- Aug 18, 2021 BIG QUEER WAR MACHINE Aug 18, 2021
- Aug 11, 2021 The world you wished for Aug 11, 2021
- Aug 7, 2021 Silent Hill 2: Deconstructing Daddy Aug 7, 2021
- Jul 6, 2021 Serve me through the wall Jul 6, 2021
- May 31, 2021 Food from the torpedo chambers May 31, 2021
- May 9, 2021 Photos of future ruins May 9, 2021
- Apr 22, 2021 We're All* Connected Apr 22, 2021
- Mar 21, 2021 Death Crown’s death march to nowhere Mar 21, 2021
- Mar 4, 2021 Even the Ocean's Sophomore Woes and Shadow Drafts Mar 4, 2021
- Jan 14, 2021 The cross you gave to me Jan 14, 2021
- Jan 1, 2021 10 Dizain Poems for the 10mg Collection Jan 1, 2021
- Dec 15, 2020 Trauma, candy, and game shows - Thoughts on Indiepocalpyse 10 Dec 15, 2020
- Nov 22, 2020 Ghost Running on a cyberpunk treadmill Nov 22, 2020
- Nov 10, 2020 Life is too short to play abusive games Nov 10, 2020
- Oct 11, 2020 Queering the art gallery Oct 11, 2020
- Sep 17, 2020 Thoughts on Indiepocalypse 8 Sep 17, 2020
- Sep 7, 2020 The 50 Games of the Decade Sep 7, 2020
- Aug 23, 2020 Stuck in the water temple with Abzu Aug 23, 2020
- Aug 16, 2020 The Last Survey shows the apathy of capitalism Aug 16, 2020
- Aug 11, 2020 Anarcute, Tonight We Riot, and the Optics of Revolution Aug 11, 2020
- Aug 2, 2020 A life after capitalism, after colonialism: Mutazione's small-town tragedies Aug 2, 2020
- Jul 23, 2020 The Loneliness of Heroism in Hyper Light Drifter Jul 23, 2020
- Jul 20, 2020 Copy Machine and the Off-Score Project take active listening to new levels Jul 20, 2020
- Jul 5, 2020 Crossing Souls has huge Big Bang Theory energy Jul 5, 2020
- Jun 22, 2020 Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is human-made magic Jun 22, 2020
- Jun 11, 2020 The lingering sadness of Evan’s Remains Jun 11, 2020
- May 16, 2020 Saving You, From Yourself is more important than ever as thousands of trans people lose access to healthcare May 16, 2020
- May 13, 2020 Signs of the Sojourner highlights the limits of conversation systems May 13, 2020
- Apr 13, 2020 Near Death indulges in the captivating myth of the lone survivor Apr 13, 2020
- Mar 23, 2020 Orwell: Keeping an Eye One You’s centrism recklessly justifies surveillance Mar 23, 2020
- Mar 15, 2020 Corruption 2029 is Mutant Year Zero’s straight to VHS sequel Mar 15, 2020
- Mar 10, 2020 Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is stretched as thin as its title Mar 10, 2020
- Mar 4, 2020 A Thousand Tiny Touches: Wandersong and the Major Arcana Mar 4, 2020
- Feb 15, 2020 Three questions for the listless Beyond Eyes Feb 15, 2020
- Feb 1, 2020 The profound un-comfiness of Mushroom Men: Truffle Trouble Feb 1, 2020
- Jan 26, 2020 Epistory: Typing Chronicles delights in trawling the thesaurus Jan 26, 2020
- Jan 18, 2020 Pathologic 2 challenges what it means to be a player Jan 18, 2020
- Dec 24, 2019 Headliner: Novinews imagines a future where the news still matters Dec 24, 2019
- Dec 8, 2019 Tokyo Dark: Remembrance doesn't need a mystery Dec 8, 2019
- Oct 26, 2019 Where The Bees Make Honey remembers an empty adolescence Oct 26, 2019
- Oct 5, 2019 Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice thinks games can do better than “crazy” Oct 5, 2019
- Sep 7, 2019 Thoughts between flights in Subdivision Infinity DX Sep 7, 2019
- Aug 10, 2019 Prey can’t let go of the past Aug 10, 2019
- Jul 6, 2019 Can Tacoma have a happy ending? Jul 6, 2019
- May 13, 2019 The Witness: A Review in Response May 13, 2019
- Dec 26, 2018 Every civilization's trash is Lara Croft's treasure in Rise of the Tomb Raider Dec 26, 2018
- Aug 21, 2018 THOTH Reminds Us Of The Power Of Minimalist Design Aug 21, 2018
- Jul 23, 2018 The Witcher 2's War Against Women Jul 23, 2018
- Jul 12, 2018 ClusterTruck is a dick but I love it anyway Jul 12, 2018
- Jun 20, 2018 Overcooked serves up the best and worst of the restaurant industry Jun 20, 2018
- Jun 11, 2018 Titanfall 2 won't shut up about how cool you are Jun 11, 2018
- Jun 4, 2018 Unravel teaches a safer kind of nostalgia Jun 4, 2018
- Mar 4, 2018 Gears of War 4 is a Fuller, Gorier House Mar 4, 2018
- Aug 23, 2017 Dance Central is for the Wallflowers Aug 23, 2017
- Jul 22, 2017 Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime / on a Hand-Me-Down Couch Jul 22, 2017
- Jul 4, 2017 Baby Driver is Edgard Wright's Wunderkind Jul 4, 2017
- Jun 14, 2017 A Normal Lost Phone does not belong to you Jun 14, 2017
- Jun 2, 2017 yellow remembers when touchscreens were cool Jun 2, 2017
- May 31, 2017 itch.io Grab Bag #2 - secrets, stars, snow, and sadness May 31, 2017
- May 29, 2017 Alien: Covenant and the Horror of Humanity May 29, 2017
- Mar 24, 2017 Logan is a superhero film without heroes Mar 24, 2017
- Feb 1, 2017 The Unconditional Love of Dropsy Feb 1, 2017
- Jan 16, 2017 Killing Time at Lightspeed and the Ordinary Horror of Losing Touch Jan 16, 2017
- Jan 12, 2017 2016, Games Criticism, and The Inescapable Madness of BUY2BILLIONFOLLOWE Jan 12, 2017
- Jan 7, 2017 Four Sided Fantasy reconsiders the role of a game's camera Jan 7, 2017
- Jan 4, 2017 Absolute Drift goes round and round and round and round Jan 4, 2017
- Jan 1, 2017 Life Through Childlike Eyes in Animal Crossing Jan 1, 2017
- Dec 21, 2016 The raccoon that stole my heart, or "I had a crush on Sly Cooper" Dec 21, 2016
- Dec 18, 2016 Through the fire and flames with Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Dec 18, 2016
- Dec 17, 2016 Geometry Wars 3 is too much of a good thing, but a good thing nonetheless Dec 17, 2016
- Dec 10, 2016 Expand teaches you to dance like a level designer Dec 10, 2016
- Nov 30, 2016 Reigns invites you to be a king of inconsequential actions Nov 30, 2016
- Nov 2, 2016 Sara Is Missing is a Ghost Story for the Digital Age Nov 2, 2016
- Oct 3, 2016 In Karambola, vegetables have feelings too Oct 3, 2016
- Sep 23, 2016 Along the Edge brings dark and striking interactive fiction to Steam next month Sep 23, 2016
- Sep 11, 2016 Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire recalls history's recursive war for equality Sep 11, 2016
- Aug 30, 2016 Planet of the Eyes finds Limbo's other half Aug 30, 2016
- Aug 29, 2016 Magic Flute takes Mozart to Neo-Tokyo Aug 29, 2016
- Aug 24, 2016 itch.io Grab Bag #1: Space, beer, shuffleboard, and corgis on motorbikes Aug 24, 2016
- Aug 23, 2016 Metrico+ isn’t a simple port, it’s a rebirth. Aug 23, 2016
Podcast 117
- Dec 7, 2024 Burning cards and tabletop artifacts with Nevyn Holmes Dec 7, 2024
- Nov 2, 2024 Exploring abbeys and the weird web with Ayu Koyama Nov 2, 2024
- Oct 5, 2024 Getting lost in dreams and towers with Kyou System Oct 5, 2024
- Sep 14, 2024 Making games of lemon and blood with rileylesstha9 Sep 14, 2024
- Aug 3, 2024 A random encounter with Kasey Ozymy Aug 3, 2024
- Jul 6, 2024 Xiri's low-poly empanadas and gay serendipity Jul 6, 2024
- Jun 8, 2024 Austin Ramsay's giant robots and player principles Jun 8, 2024
- May 4, 2024 Sylvie Podcast: 7 question showdown May 4, 2024
- Apr 17, 2024 Zero Context 25: complex motives Apr 17, 2024
- Apr 6, 2024 Growing up on Perfect Tides with Meredith Gran Apr 6, 2024
- Mar 23, 2024 Zero Context 24: mama's boy Mar 23, 2024
- Mar 16, 2024 Witnessing the Death of a Wish with melessthanthree and Kevin Wong Mar 16, 2024
- Mar 2, 2024 Unearthing subterranean stories with Cecile Richard Mar 2, 2024
- Feb 27, 2024 Zero Context 23: not living in a society Feb 27, 2024
- Feb 12, 2024 Zero Context 22: I drink your milkshake Feb 12, 2024
- Feb 3, 2024 Metamorphosing sounds and sheep with David Su Feb 3, 2024
- Jan 22, 2024 Zero Context 21: Gab is Zero Jan 22, 2024
- Dec 31, 2023 Kritiqal Care presents: The End of 2023 Dec 31, 2023
- Dec 21, 2023 Zero Context Holiday Special: Kamaitachi no Yoru Dec 21, 2023
- Dec 4, 2023 Zero Context 20: Zero's plushie empire Dec 4, 2023
- Dec 2, 2023 Dreaming of piss with Domino Club Dec 2, 2023
- Nov 13, 2023 Zero Context 19: sadboy570 Nov 13, 2023
- Oct 29, 2023 Zero Context 18: incinerate your gays Oct 29, 2023
- Oct 14, 2023 Visiting Brownie Cove with Sam Machell Oct 14, 2023
- Oct 10, 2023 Zero Context 17: big head blood mode Oct 10, 2023
- Sep 13, 2023 Zero Context 16: for want of a snail Sep 13, 2023
- Sep 2, 2023 Exploring a world of crypts with Lili Zone Sep 2, 2023
- Aug 5, 2023 Canvas on making your mechanics crunchy and your robots gay Aug 5, 2023
- Aug 2, 2023 Zero Context 15: death or calculator Aug 2, 2023
- Jul 15, 2023 Zero Context 14: my life as a death game robot Jul 15, 2023
- Jul 1, 2023 Leah Case builds cities out of Twine Jul 1, 2023
- Jun 28, 2023 Zero Context 13: Rebuild of Sigma 1.11 ~ You Can (Not) Cum Jun 28, 2023
- May 21, 2023 Zero Context 12: antimater baby May 21, 2023
- Apr 30, 2023 Zero Context 11: Tenmyouji's revenge Apr 30, 2023
- Apr 29, 2023 Be not afraid of Autumn Rain Apr 29, 2023
- Apr 9, 2023 Zero Context 10: secreting secrets Apr 9, 2023
- Apr 2, 2023 Lily Valeen and the final boss of mobile games Apr 2, 2023
- Mar 26, 2023 Zero Context 9: the panty room Mar 26, 2023
- Mar 11, 2023 Zero Context 8: locked in the pod Mar 11, 2023
- Mar 4, 2023 Kate Barrett's sleepless journey to Ready Player Fuck Mar 4, 2023
- Feb 19, 2023 Zero Context 7: *drool* Feb 19, 2023
- Feb 4, 2023 Kenzie Shores on making trans games for horny people Feb 4, 2023
- Jan 28, 2023 Zero Context 6: Two Podcasters Go Comedy Jan 28, 2023
- Dec 28, 2022 Zero Context holiday special: Santa got you an OVA Dec 28, 2022
- Dec 3, 2022 Dave Hoffman's accidental puzzle hit Dec 3, 2022
- Dec 2, 2022 Zero Context 5: riding into the sunset Dec 2, 2022
- Nov 6, 2022 Zero Context 4: truth is asleep, post Santa Nov 6, 2022
- Nov 5, 2022 Cosmo D's left turn into game development Nov 5, 2022
- Oct 17, 2022 Zero Context 3: thriving in Junpei's mind palace Oct 17, 2022
- Oct 1, 2022 A Commonplace conversation with Max Miller Oct 1, 2022
- Sep 28, 2022 Zero Context 2: the death sub Sep 28, 2022
- Sep 10, 2022 Complicating player agency with Goldie Bartlett and Jason Bakker Sep 10, 2022
- Sep 6, 2022 Zero Context 1: is podcasting a death game? Sep 6, 2022
- Aug 11, 2022 Zero Context context Aug 11, 2022
- Aug 6, 2022 Adam Le Doux's itsy Bitsy game engine Aug 6, 2022
- Jul 2, 2022 Spiders in your games, spiders in your site Jul 2, 2022
- May 28, 2022 Building half earth socialism with Son La Pham and Francis Tseng May 28, 2022
- Apr 30, 2022 Fantasia Malware paints landscapes of hell Apr 30, 2022
- Mar 26, 2022 Studio Oleomingus's post-colonial magical realism Mar 26, 2022
- Feb 26, 2022 Joel Jordon and the real time bandit of capitalism Feb 26, 2022
- Jan 29, 2022 Karin Malady is trying to hurt you Jan 29, 2022
- Jan 1, 2022 2021 wrapped on Kritiqal Care Jan 1, 2022
- Nov 6, 2021 Moving beyond nostalgia ghosts with Breogán Hackett Nov 6, 2021
- Oct 23, 2021 Xalavier Nelson Jr. released three games while you read this headline Oct 23, 2021
- Oct 9, 2021 Heather Flowers wasn't on this episode Oct 9, 2021
- Sep 25, 2021 Talking political horror with Naphtali Faulkner Sep 25, 2021
- Sep 11, 2021 Loitering among the gamers with Jeremy Couillard Sep 11, 2021
- Aug 28, 2021 Crawling through supermarket vents with lowpolis Aug 28, 2021
- Aug 14, 2021 Getting GENDER WRECKED with Ryan Rose Aceae Aug 14, 2021
- Jul 31, 2021 Jeff Chiao's long road to UNBEATABLE Jul 31, 2021
- Jul 17, 2021 Freya Campbell on putting Flicksy inside Bitsy inside Twine because it seemed cool Jul 17, 2021
- Jul 3, 2021 Elliot Herriman codes interactive fiction so you don't have to Jul 3, 2021
- Jun 19, 2021 Shane Yach finds joy in exploration and pixel rendering Jun 19, 2021
- Jun 5, 2021 Kevin Wong on the importance of anti-hierarchical creativity Jun 5, 2021
- May 8, 2021 Nathan Blades performs actual play from the future May 8, 2021
- Apr 24, 2021 Pixel A Day implores critics to look outside of games Apr 24, 2021
- Apr 3, 2021 Nilson Carroll explores the intimacy of ROM hacking Apr 3, 2021
- Mar 20, 2021 Lena NW makes games about the dark humor and trauma of growing up online Mar 20, 2021
- Mar 6, 2021 prophet goddess on the unrealized possibility of procedural generation Mar 6, 2021
- Feb 20, 2021 Sandy Pug Games on the limits of aesthetic revolution Feb 20, 2021
- Feb 6, 2021 melessthanthree on being the Velvet Underground of videogames Feb 6, 2021
- Jan 23, 2021 Hyacinth Nil explores morality systems at the end of the world Jan 23, 2021
- Jan 9, 2021 Taylor McCue is building games that can't be erased Jan 9, 2021
- Dec 26, 2020 2020 Wrapped on Kritiqal Care Dec 26, 2020
- Dec 5, 2020 Dave Gilbert talks closing out the Blackwell Saga and new beginnings with Unavowed Dec 5, 2020
- Nov 21, 2020 Kaile Hultner reminds us there is No Escape from video games Nov 21, 2020
- Nov 14, 2020 DEEP HELL on learning the wrong lessons from games criticism Nov 14, 2020
- Oct 24, 2020 Oma Keeling writes love stories for vehicles Oct 24, 2020
- Oct 17, 2020 Teaching intentional listening with The Off-Score Project Oct 17, 2020
- Oct 10, 2020 Maria Mison makes games that teach us how to do hard things Oct 10, 2020
- Oct 3, 2020 Girls Make Games wants teach every kid to game dev Oct 3, 2020
- Sep 26, 2020 The endless destiny of Makeup and Vanity Set Sep 26, 2020
- Sep 12, 2020 Breaking down the beauty of Mutazione's domesticity with Hannah Nicklin Sep 12, 2020
- Sep 5, 2020 Talking human-centered game design with Melos Han-Tani Sep 5, 2020
- Aug 22, 2020 MadameBerry on leaving games and embracing Twitch painting Aug 22, 2020
- Aug 15, 2020 Whitethorn Games wants to be a publisher for the rest of us Aug 15, 2020
- Aug 8, 2020 The Video Game Poetry Nook with Rachel Tanner Aug 8, 2020
- Jul 25, 2020 Nathalie Lawhead imagines a smaller, weirder internet Jul 25, 2020
- Jul 18, 2020 The Indiepocalypse is real and Andrew is curating it Jul 18, 2020
- Jul 11, 2020 ValiDate is changing dating sims one fishing minigame at a time Jul 11, 2020