Here’s the latest:

The final bosses of The Evil Within and Star Fox 64 take the form of giant brains. The goal is to mash them and return to reality. Don Everhart approves of this: the mind is more than what’s inside the skull.

We talk about the difference between a side quest that feels like a job and a whole game that makes you do a specific job. Is Geralt of Rivia just one step away from being your building’s gruff super?

Nate, Don, and Christian go on an epic journey through the eldritch void, wind up in World of Horror, talk Venom in Spider-Man 2, and argue about talking flowers in Super Mario Wonder.

Join Nate, Christian, Roger, and Don as they finally lay out a firm and simple spectrum with which to rate all games, and it goes from narcissism to nihilism. What’s to rate? How about a menu of Akka Arrh, Season, Dredge, Dead Cells and Castlevania, and more? It's a super blast.

Don Everhart and Nate Schmidt are joined by bundle organizers Caroline Delbert and Taylor McCue. Recommendations include ways to support the queer games community as well as a wide range of games and art from the bundle.

We talk sin, punishment, cults, and Kirby! Also, portable console highs and lows—JoyCon drift and Steam Deck love.

We rant about Square-Enix, gush over Lego games, tell tales of Elden Ring, and highly recommend Citizen Sleeper!

We argue about whether Elden Ring is any different from Dark Souls and ask important questions like is FromSoft the Arcade Fire of videogames?

We interview game designer Jason Cordova about the tabletop roleplaying games, Brindlewood Bay and The Between, as well as his work managing The Gauntlet and the indie RPG magazine Codex.

We discuss Death’s Gambit, Amnesia: Rebirth, Cozy Grove, Lost Judgment, Inscryption, Lake, and more!

A quirky sci-fi indie game filled with working class folks trying to make things work!

What can the wargame Battle Platform Antilles teach us about the limits of human beings and the forces of entropy?

Have you always wanted to experience the end of the world? Well, have I got the game for you: ARC!

Boyfriend Dungeon is a crushworthy queer romance game, but it doesn’t come without some baggage.

Highwater mixes its dark themes with a heaping spoonful of what-the-fuckery in the vein of 90's surrealist films.

Season is a moving meditation on loss, change, and hope for the future. And it lets you ride a bicycle through beautiful landscapes.

Tom Tyler’s scholarly book Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity asks how video games let us play (or play with) animals, what animals can teach us about play, and what humans owe to their non-human neighbors.

Radiant Citadel is 5e’s latest push towards diversity. Who is included in D&D community, culture, and canon?

Bardsung would be a brilliant exploration-driven RPG board game, if only it would get out of its own way.

Roger Whitson enjoys taking in the environments of AdamGryu’s A Short Hike. Maybe we should all just pick our heads up, take things at our own pace, and see what the world has in store.

Roger Whitson examines We Become What We Behold, a 2016 game self-published by Nicky Case. Whitson considers what the game adds to the conversation around media effects.

From Battle Cats to Brawl Stars, Edcel Cintron-Gonzalez highlights some of the best mobile games of 2021!

In 2021, it was the small games - the indie games full of heart and subtle pleasures - that truly impressed.

An interview with development studio Dang! about their brilliant indie shooter, Boomerang X!

Interview with the Denmark-based indie studio Triple Topping, creators of Welcome to Elk.

Interview with Alenda Chang, author of Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games

Interview with Patrick Jagoda about his new book Experimental Games.