San Andreas is a real city. It is at once as real as the street of any southwestern desert sidewalk I’ve walked down with an orange sky hanging overhead. San Andreas can never be real, it can be made of real places but it can’t exist. As technology marches on, and boy does it march,…
THEY’LL LEAVE YOUR BRAINS ALL OVER THE PLACE
After about a year of living where I live, I’m ready to enter the killzone again. A pure white space, with nothing on the walls. The kind of space I need to be to play a first person shooter. No distractions – the walls in the game could be white too, for all I care….
NEVER FIGHT A MAN WITH A PERM
YOU KNOW I’m almost a specific age that implies a downward slope. I can’t for the life of me picture what age this is. For some people it’s 25, 30, others: 45 years exactly. Whatever the case: I reckon with a body built by my choices every day. A long time ago I would surround…
MY LIFE FOR NERZHUL
“In a statement, Blizzard Entertainment said Blizzard North co-founders Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer and David Brevik, along with a fourth employee, Bill Roper, ‘resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities.’” – Yahoo News (dead link), 2003 When the creators of Diablo left Blizzard in 2003, it was reported on that it was due to…
THE FIVE WORST GAMES TO HAVE SEX IN
DISCLAIMER: the following content is meant for The Bedroom. THE LIST is the most hallowed form of internet content. Far from the lowest-common-denominator appeal we think of it today: the list was once the most exciting part of the internet. You’d pay once a month to some small cable provider or internet service. A website…
BELIEVABLE FUTURES
by Bryn Gelbart for Deep-Hell.Com The best way to tell a story about the present is to write one about the future. Reality is all too real to say anything actually meaningful about the human condition. Real life is complicated. It requires lawyers. It requires, if you are writing an Oscar winning screenplay, making…
IN THE LAND OF ENDLESS GREED
text by No Escape In The Land of Endless Greed CW: Sexual assault and harassment mention Lately I’ve been seeing a meme spread Online with greater prolificity every day. It’s a slogan over some glitchy visuals, makes for a real good bumper sticker: I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who were…
2021 HORROSCOPE
This is a new edition of last years “What your favorite game of 2019 said about you.” It is shorter, but we hope you appreciate a few jokes and some fun art. Thanks! It can be found on ITCH.IO
RUINS OF MEMORY
DISCLAIMER: Ario Barzan is an artist, author, and composer. Some of their writing can be found on Brick By Brick, Kotaku, Kill Screen, and Heterotopias. Every building is a medium, for it imparts information put there by someone or something. Ruins are a special sort of medium, in a state of structural stability and instability….
AND, PRESENTING,
The Last of Us Part 2 won last night’s (or tonights, depending on how fast I can type this) Game Awards. I don’t know anything about the game awards and I don’t really watch movies anymore so i’m basically as removed from reward culture as I can be. Who do you even wait for at…