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
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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…
THE BUTCHER
It feels like I’ve seen Grim Dawn on steam for full well a decade now. It turns out, as the way time flows, it’s only been five years. There it sat, waiting for me to buy it lonely in my wishlist. The time finally came that I made some sort of decision, and with the…
THAT’S PROGRESS!
Gamergate hit a few years ago. There’s that big moment where everyone came out to harass a single person. They dressed it up in as many buzzwords and ideas as they possibly could. the rivers of information were internally poisoned by “ethics in games journalism.” Meanwhile, people on YouTube exchanged handshakes for money and free…
LIFE AND CONCRETE
I’m thinking, staring at my computer at 3am, that I hope this is some kind of renaissance. AS I have been doing for the last few days – the only video game I have had time for is called Session. Released only relatively recent, it’s one of many recent skateboarding related affairs. I want to…
UNLUCKY SKIN
One of my brother’s knees is six shards of bone held together by wire. The rest of him doesn’t fair much better, and not purely because of anything he was born with. A life of retail and wage-labor jobs, of skateboarding and heavy drinking will do that to you. In my own way, my own…