Tag: video games

Sachin Hingoo on Aggro Dr1ft (USA, 2023)

The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo has some thoughts on Harmony Korine’s new experimental, game-influenced action experience, Aggro Dr1ft! “Harmony Korine set out on day one of shooting his new infrared ‘gamecore’ film, AGGRO DR1FT, to explore the idea of what comes ‘after’ movies. Bored with the current standards […]

Making Idlis and Being Seen.

At Gamespot, Veerender Jubal writes about Venba, a new game about a South Asian immigrant woman’s experience in 1980s Canada–with cooking mechanics! “Venba does not just make me feel seen, Venba makes me feel acknowledged and reassured in ways video games have never explored so profoundly.” Read more […]

The Legend Of My House

“It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make.” “We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it […]

The Creation Suite

The art of creating characters in video games is neither objectively new, nor even new to me. I’ve been messing around with video game character creation suites for decades, though I certainly never thought of it as art. I think the most common use for these creation tools […]