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…


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…


BORN TO DIE

There’s someone I keep around in my life purely because I like watching them take everything they know and reduce it to Content. A hike in the woods becomes an instagram parable of what they found. New jobs become showcases of the personal brand: This is who I am and what I do reflects it….