by Bryn Gelbart for Deep-Hell.Com The best way to tell a story about the present is to write one about the future. Reality is all too real to say anything actually meaningful about the human condition. Real life is complicated. It requires lawyers. It requires, if you are writing an Oscar winning screenplay, making…
IN THE LAND OF ENDLESS GREED
text by No Escape In The Land of Endless Greed CW: Sexual assault and harassment mention Lately I’ve been seeing a meme spread Online with greater prolificity every day. It’s a slogan over some glitchy visuals, makes for a real good bumper sticker: I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who were…
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
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….
AND, PRESENTING,
The Last of Us Part 2 won last night’s (or tonights, depending on how fast I can type this) Game Awards. I don’t know anything about the game awards and I don’t really watch movies anymore so i’m basically as removed from reward culture as I can be. Who do you even wait for at…
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…
INDIEPOCALYPSE PODCAST
Hello. It’s another Podcast Episode. Since we still can’t get embeds working properly – you can see it here: https://anchor.fm/deephelldotcom/episodes/INDIEPOCALYPSE-emrkmb You can find Andrew @PizzaPranks on twitter, or on Itch.IO or at their website: http://pizzapranks.com On Saturdays, you can find Andrew on their Pirate Radio Show on Twitch.TV
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…
FEATURED ON KRITIQAL CARE
HELLO. We were recently interviewed for the great podcast “Kritiqal Care”. You can find the episode below: https://www.kritiqal.com/articles/kritiqal-care-ep-30 Thank you.
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…