one of the most important parts of how pop culture is digested isn’t just critical analysis, but how the average person responds to it when introduced to it. this is, in a way, the make or break moment of pop culture. that’s part of the experience of fandom events too. that doesn’t just include things…
just a bit of housekeeping
Hello! When I started this website two years ago, I didn’t think I’d be running it still this much later and actually be getting even the small amount of traffic I get. Thank you for reading. If you’d like, you can currently support our creative endeavors through the Patreon button at the top –…
WHAT YOUR FAVORITE GAME IN 2018 SAID ABOUT YOU
The days after Christmas, December 25, aren’t really a part of the year, and they aren’t really a part of next year, either. Maybe they’re the days just there at the end of the calendar to ride out holiday hangovers. Maybe, they’re the space for sitting in bed too afraid to go outside. Wishing you’d…
Streets of New York, Streets of Gotham
Where are you from? Maybe it’s just part of my generation and our anxiety, but I feel defined by where I’m from to the point it’s getting hard to relate it to people as I get older. There’s probably a dead guy with a good book about collective experience being tied to where we’re from….
Fallout 76
That’s a quote from Polygon.com’s recent article about, of all things, Fallout 76. Maybe somewhere that quote should be printed out, framed, and hung in an office. Everyone who walks in that specific office that wants to take part in the time honored tradition of writing about videogames has to read that quote, over and…
Gatcha!
A new button has been added to the homepage, where our friend Violet will be detailing her campaign of self sabotage as she dives into free-to-play Gatcha games for cell phones, over and over again.
CONNED?
Conventions come and conventions go. Largely, it’s going to feel like more have went than you’ve really gotten to go to. DEEP-HELL was originally us writing about convention culture, but of course got steamrolled by our tendency to instead write about anything we wanted to at any point in time. Why did we wanna write…
BLOOD AND VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS OF LONDON
Hunt. Stalk. Feed. Vampires aren’t the focus of as many videogames as you would think they’d be. Even today, when the myriad of places Vampires traditionally liked to hang out (we’re thinking gothic castles and turn of the century metropolises) can be created even easier than ever, the games about being a Vampire are infrequent….
RETURN TO ALBUM REVIEWS: KID BITCHIN’
We have a policy at Deep-Hell. A policy that stretches back months, maybe even years in the making. That policy is really, really simple: if you send us your album we will write something about it. Even if you are our brother, a woman on the street, a hot-dog vender / accordion player. The Limit Club sent us an…
THE WITCHER 3
Politics are the backbone of modern fantasy: We’re so accustomed to western fantasy being married with what’s called “courtly drama” that one of the most widely watched TV shows has more to do with family blood rivalry and ideological strife than it does a quest or ancient evil. The Witcher 3, for being mostly about…