Angela Englert is being tormented by demons from her past. She’ll be back next month! In the meantime, consider her piece on the video game, Until Dawn. ~~~ Horror has been part of video games since at least 1981’s 3D Monster Maze, but it’s not always a seamless […]
Every April is Switcheroo Month here at the Gutter as each Editor writes about something outside their usual domain. This week Comics Editor Carol writes about playing games within games in Red Dead Redemption 2. ~~~ “You mean Paradise on one side? Maybe the Inferno on the other […]
Screen Editor alex is engaged in a mission of extreme importance and utmost secrecy. So this month, please enjoy one of his vintage pieces. ~~~ When I was a kid, my parents got me a later model Radio Shack Trash 80 (TRS-80) computer, but what I really wanted […]
Every April is Switcheroo Month at The Cultural Gutter. This month Comics Editor Carol writes about Horizon Zero Dawn. ~~~ Watch out, everyone, I am going to talk a bit about story elements because I enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn‘s story. Sometime I’d like to discuss it in greater […]
The great critic Roger Ebert, who comfortably reduced many a nuanced vision to thumbs-up or thumbs-down, invited a lot of angry mail in the years leading up to his death with his insistence that videogames could never be art. And I have always found that opinion, much like […]
While Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan) might just be the biggest marquee name in survival horror video games, complete with its own mutant spawn film series starring Milla Jovovich, its chapters are only sporadically successful beyond a certain core audience, like even-numbered Star Trek films. The first game […]