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…
UNCHARTED 2
The implication of every Indiana Jones, every Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is that these gentleman thieves eventually plan on leaving their discoveries somewhere the rest of the world can benefit. I hate to dropquote in the beginning of an article, but “the rest of the world” often means “parts of the world primarily inhabited by white…
PATH OF THE JEDI
OR “SOUND IN JEDI KNIGHT: DARK FORCES II” By Porter Simmons I saw Star Wars for the first time when I was three. My parents, who were going out for the night for this or that, dropped me off at my grandparents’ house so my uncle could watch me while they were away. Shortly after…
QUARANTINE GAMES: UMURANGI GENERATION
Almost every year I find myself once again in a specific kind of haze. It’s candy colored and green haired, often fueled by alcohol and drugs. A two or a three hour drive to a place I see people I sometimes don’t see the rest of the year. Out comes the camera and an…
WOLVES HAUNT MY BEDROOM
Everywhere we walk through is haunted or will never be haunted, those are the distinctions. The old brick buildings can be spaces for something new. Straight lines and assembled windows, they might stay empty. Something in my head knows it’s just about time for another Resident Evil. Surrounded by wingnut republicans and apocalypse fetishists who…
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…