Resident Evil 7 and the Return to Home Horror

There’s something to be said about the horror of a lonely home.

The Post-PAX Whirlwind

Sometimes it feels impossible to find a peaceful moment. An afternoon with nothing to do except lounge around and take in the Spring air doesn’t exactly come often for me. Between balancing work, writing, and school, I find that I’m perpetually stuck in a constant state of motion. I’m not complaining, though. I love what […]

The Gear Grinds Forward

I’ve been playing Dark Souls III lately. There’s a lot to be said about the game and I hope to visit it critically sometime in the near future, but that’s now what this post is about. Playing Dark Souls III usually means dying a lot. Trying to progress. Failing. And then repeating the process over and over again until you […]

Flavor Text Feature [Excerpt]

New feature for Playboy

Exploring the Void in Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

The small gossip that makes up some of the game’s uncoverable sequences seem like bucolic rumors and feuds at times, but illustrate a grander picture. Rapture’s citizens – before the game and after their disappearances – are small players on a universal scale.

On Subversive Multiplayer (or how I learned to re-love online gaming)

Earlier this year, I had a fascination with Crypt of the Necrodancer. I bought the game on a whim because I had an empty weekend in front of me. A couple hours after installing it, and I was hooked. Crypt of the Necrodancer allowed me to scratch an itch for grooving my way through dungeons that I […]