What is Battlefield 2042?

Video games are places where we restage wars, either real or imagined. Battlefield 2042 is about an imaginary war in 21 years, one that hasn’t happened yet.

Brute Forcing the Medical, Doc: Cybersleuth Puzzle Design

Where’s Karin? Where is she? She’s supposed to be here, to give me a check-up and fill these tranq darts.

I am hypnogogia

pikuniku sleeper on my beanbag. i play the picnic game on orange bean bag. it’s not that I can’t sleep. I sleep easily. but for minutes at a time. When I don’t want to sleep I fight it, but it’s not even a fight. Sleep takes hold. I don’t want to turn off. I can […]

I’ve Gone to the Lighthouse

A chain of games where loss and the lighthouse connect.

That thing to make the pain go away Didn’t work

Maybe I’ve just been in the wrong mood lately, but the games which have this sweet meanness supposedly at their core just haven’t soothed any of the existential dread that they normally do.

A is for Jump

A platformer tells us what could happen if jumping around like that was our bread and butter, and therefore opens us up to many variations on the idea.

First Land: It’s all About the Worm Really

Worms.

Time Loops All Over Again

You can’t come out of a loop the same way you went in. At least you’d hope so.

We regret to inform you…

Sorry I couldn’t care less about whether theygave DOOM Guy tits. I was cryingon the doorframe because my granddad had to lend me 20 quid.

A Statement: Do and Demand Better. Now.

In response to abusive working conditions at games studios worldwide, specifically to recent reporting about the conditions at Activision Blizzard.