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…
YOU CAN’T GET THERE BY DRIVING
Else Heart.Break() Is a videogame about programming and computers, or maybe it’s a videogame about community and relationships. Now I am primarily a writer, so I don’t understand how those work: but I do understand how the human heart works. It’s my gift, or maybe a little bit of my curse. Maybe i’m just a…
character creation
There’s a ship floating above the planet Io, just high enough it could drop out of safe orbit in a matter of seconds. Its pilot is a fierce guardian – though she’s likely more interested in stretching her legs and enjoying a few minutes to air out on the safety of her ship. I don’t…
WHAT YOUR FAVORITE GAME IN 2018 SAID ABOUT YOU
The days after Christmas, December 25, aren’t really a part of the year, and they aren’t really a part of next year, either. Maybe they’re the days just there at the end of the calendar to ride out holiday hangovers. Maybe, they’re the space for sitting in bed too afraid to go outside. Wishing you’d…
Fallout 76
That’s a quote from Polygon.com’s recent article about, of all things, Fallout 76. Maybe somewhere that quote should be printed out, framed, and hung in an office. Everyone who walks in that specific office that wants to take part in the time honored tradition of writing about videogames has to read that quote, over and…
CONNED?
Conventions come and conventions go. Largely, it’s going to feel like more have went than you’ve really gotten to go to. DEEP-HELL was originally us writing about convention culture, but of course got steamrolled by our tendency to instead write about anything we wanted to at any point in time. Why did we wanna write…
looking to give away sony TV
In the loneliest times in my life, there are a few hobbies I fall back on. There have been a few times in my life I’ve had minimal enough contact with the outside world that I’ve gotten desperate enough to go hunting for it. In the case of this story though, I was just looking…