“In contrast to Bill and Frank’s lived experience of navigating society as gay men, knowledge of queer history feels completely absent for queer youth in The Last of Us, but that doesn’t feel like an oversight. Instead, it’s a meaningful piece of worldbuilding reflecting how culture can die […]
Video game adaptations have a rocky history in film. For every good-to-ok one, like Mortal Kombat (1994), Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) or Werewolves Within (2021), there are scores of films that don’t do justice to their digital counterparts. The K:D ratio* just isn’t great for these movies, partly […]
The BBC Archive has a 1985 piece on Infocom. “Fred Harris goes behind the scenes at Boston software company Infocom. The developer has enjoyed great success with its line of text adventure games–the likes of Zork, Planetfall, Enchanter, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy–which eschew graphics in […]
At Eurogamer, Veerender Jubbal recommends a Mew build for Pokémon Unite! Check it out here.
“Secret Base’s mission is to enjoy fascinating, funny, and weird stories that just happen to be about sports. Many of the stories we tell are true. Some are strange, irreverent experiments that break the fundamental rules. Some we make up out of thin air. In short, we’re having […]
I’ve been playing a fair bit of Stray, the new cat simulator from relatively the new developer BlueTwelve Studio, since it came out a couple of weeks ago. While it’s completely enchanted me (as well as many, many others) , I find that I sometimes struggle to explain […]
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The Cultural Gutter 