Keeping it Cozy
Sachin Hingoo learns to love taking turns in video games by calming down with Unpacking, one of the coziest games around.
This week in horror: Burning! Blair Witch! Influencing! Freddy–no the other one! An Asylum!
The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo lays out this week in horror at Biff Bam Pop! : “This week’s horror news includes the 4K release for one of the most underrated slashers from 1981, some big announcements about a new Blair Witch movie, a sick new Indonesian horror shot […]
Fallout 4 and the Horrors of the Open World
Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 4, like its predecessors, surrounds the player with a retro-futurist, post-apocalyptic world abstracted from the good ol’, partially mythical USA of educational filmstrips, with sprinkles of that era’s sci-fi upping the ante. In due time, you’ll be battling through a harsh realm of mad science […]
“First Person Perspective and The Untroubled Gaze”
Kaitlin Tremblay examines why she prefers first person perspective to third person perspective when gaming: “If female characters have typically existed only to be looked at, then removing them visually and collapsing them in gamer/character removes this gendered aspect of the gaze. There is no gendered complication between […]
The Cultural Gutter 