Sitting in the Gardens of Vextro

poetry written while playing Gardens of Vextro, a chain of 8 games from vextro

Garage: Gender as a Bad Dream

The man gets into Garage and dreams of machines. There is a deep long valley and he links his piping to it. In the new world where robots are ancient milk monsters, the man manifests as trapped inside

The big bird in the sky and the worm who ate Spiderman’s lunch.

(Image from Junji Ito’s Remina) About Spiderman: Miles Morales’ in-game social media, Twitter and its violence

Interview: Jörg Tittel, Writer-Director of The Last Worker

Interviewing The Last Worker’s writer and director Jörg Tittel about inspirations, exploitations and playing games in a capitalist dystopia.

Interview: ‘Birth’ Creator Madison Karrh

An interview with Madison Karrh about Birth, death and the puzzles, cities and organs we collect along the way.

One day the dogs

a poem on dogs in elden ring

The Immortal Interface

a restoration project, a mediation zone, a big trick, Immortality is all of these things, but is it more?

Dreamlight Valley Runs On Coal

A cloud of smog hangs over Disney’s valley for resource hunting and casual gaming, every breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Gamers like you and me

This next part is for you, connoisseur and journalist of games who throughout the main show has been bemoaning how none of it is any good. Now it’s time for you, wholesome game fan, to take the mantel of supporting one of the wobbling legs of the table by being enthusiastic about a flash game, a white domesticity simulator and a game where you create some sort of “stone age tribe” that is clearly an amalgam of stereotypes about indigenous peoples.

The Millionth Warning – Everything Everything and Personal Apocalypse Music

It took a while for me to stop thinking of Everything Everything as the band who signal the apocalypse, and back to being just one that signals my own state of mind during what feels like an ending…