Back in late September of last year, there was about two weeks where the hospitality industry I worked in faced a massive coffee shortage. There was just simply no way to get the craft espresso pods for those espresso machines that take all of the art and artifice out of making coffee, and restaurants all…
SORRY THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BODY
By Karin Malady This could be about Elden Ring since everyone is talking about it, but there’s something else more important on my mind. That’s right, EverymanHYBRID, the slenderman ARG YouTube horror series that is basically the plot of Kingdom Hearts. Alternate Reality Games want you to feel like you’re in on a little secret….
AN OUTCRY (Developer Interview)
Over the holiday break of 2021, I had the pleasure of being included in the list of people cool enough to get a shot at playing AN OUTCRY. An outcry bills itself as “A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours….
BRING ME ALL YOUR LOVE
The World Ends With You is a crystal-mind game. I mean it’s a solid rock lodged in my memories, a crystal found on the inside of some geode that leaves any fool that picks it up doing something like staring into an endless hallway of mirrors. It’s good but let’s use the passed tense: I…
NO FEAST FOR THE UNDERFED
by Karin Malady There is something about my memory that doesn’t work. I can remember the whole of Isle Delfino better than I can Tales of Symphonia, which had a story that made me cry as a preteen with little experience in JRPGs outside of the Paper Mario series. Likewise, I can remember Life is…
IT’S NOT A MISTAKE
DISCLAIMER: Deep-Hell is taking a little bit of a break in December. Please consider looking for places and stores near you where Deep-Hell will be available. Merry Christmas, from deep-hell.com. A hallway hovers over an abyss, crackles in 3D geometry caricatures of concrete and rebar show nothing but a black void that theoretically goes on…
TO THE GARDEN OF MADNESS
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EVERYBODY LIKES YOU NOW
Last Sunday, the Arizona music scene and more than a hundred lives strung together lost someone near and dear to them. In all of those lives is me, and the person I lost was a friend I’ll always wish I had spent more time with. I haven’t really sat down to process it at all….
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
DON’T FORGET TO EAT
ARTICLE AND TEXT BY ________ (THEY’VE BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME) you know when i was a kid i looked for the long trips that came. they never happened long enough. never frequent enough that id get to spend any time with my family, but always after something bad had happened. we needed to get…