this sort of thing would normally come out at the end of a month. if you want us to do it regularly, please consider supporting us on patreon. consider this our apology for letting our writer out in public: It seems like years and years ago I made some sort of vague promise to…
GAME OF THE DECADE
disclaimer: we don’t know why we wrote this In just a few short weeks, DEEP HELL DOT COM will have been around for three whole years. Started initially as a creative exercise, the fact that we’re still here and still making things continues to surprise us every day. We started DEEP HELL DOT COM…
ONCE AGAIN (november review)
The blurb on THE NINJA WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN Amazon page is “Significantly enhanced remake of one of the best Japanese side-scrolling beat-me-up games of all time!” This bit of hyperbole could be mistaken for a selling point, or, it could be the absolute truth. Looking at just the first few words and then turning the…
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…
DON’T GO REMAKING MY HEART
please consider supporting us on Patreon if you liked this content. DON’T GO REMAKING MY HEART There will always be people too poor to play videogames. Outside the realm of criticism, fuck, maybe even inside of it – someone’s experience with the medium will be dictated by what they can afford. After all, a…
River City Girls (review)
DISCLAIMER: This article was written through support from our Patreon subscribers. You can also give us money through Patreon.com. Videogames will bring the world together…and we’re committed to helping it happen. ALSO this Review includes SPOILERS for River City Girls. The archetypal Saturday Morning did not exist for me. Cartoons aired late in the…
OBJECT OF POWER
CW: DISCUSSION OF GUN VIOLENCE, Viewer discretion is advised. In the real world, I am mostly powerless. I can sit at my desk, but unless I go to the gym, I can’t throw it at anyone. Frequently I am also immobilized by bureaucracy and rules that if not impossible to navigate the world by,…
OFFICE
before you read this article, please take a moment and read about the much more important news happening this week: https://www.themarysue.com/video-game-metoo-allegations/ All of us know someone who’s had to spend most of their life inside of an office. The friend that seems to always be working either too late or too early. Often,…
MAKE YOUR EVO MOMENT
EVO – the largest fighting game tournament in the world, has once again come and gone. Rather than missing out in a bedroom watching over the internet, I spent this last weekend in Las Vegas where it’s held. In a plastic chair sometimes less than a few feet from the stage, I got to watch…
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
The 4th of July is the most American holiday there can be. Unlike other crass grabs at commercialism, the 4th of July has one simple message: Even though everything is fucked up and people are dying, you need to shut up and ignore it and enjoy being an American. In that spirit, let’s say “hoo…