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….
MONEY MACHINE
I can buy so many shirts in Watch Dogs: Legion. This is not a fantasy for me: I’m a weirdo who keeps around the same 20 shirts all year. Some of them have distinct memory tied to them. More often than not they’re just cool looking shirts. There’s a lot you can do in Watch…
BLEED FOR ME
Joshua Trevett is the Managing Editor at Haywire Magazine. He would also like if you listened to his weird music. He’s on Twitter Here’s a detail I think about a lot: when the character we’re playing as gets injured — shot, let’s say — what does it feel like? There are games where taking just…
I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS
DISCLAIMER: Yes, We applied to work for Kotaku dot. com when we were still Young, Dumb, and Full of Cum. It wont happen again. I come from a relatively bog-standard midwestern working class family. The way I landed in the lap of videogames has less to do with a life of social inequity and more…
DIRTY, BROKE, BEAUTIFUL & FREE
DISCLAIMER: we thought it would be really funny if we didn’t update at all in october. seriously. the idea of us – we’ve got orange in our logo and we’re youtube verifiably spooky, not making an update in october (and not because it has anything to do with the fact that none of us have…
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…
A VIEW ASKANCE THE PRESENT
I was never broadly a fan of most of the big gaming websites on the internet. It seems quaint to look back now at all of the websites lost – only found on Archive . Org or the ways their old homepages have been enshrined. The internet, is, after all, at the mercy of its…
HARDLINE
The article header here is from EA’s Battlefield Hardline. You’d be mistaken for thinking this was a military shooter by the presence of tanks and APC’s blurred out in the background. Our hero is interchangeable with any number of military shooter protagonists. His chiseled jaw and sunglasses gives him away: This Man Is The Police….
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…