The Auteur as a figure in entertainment is dead. Grown strong on digital production, a more artistically bankrupt creature emerges in their...

Chorby Short is an adorable frog girl who is also sometimes a witch. Or perhaps, she's just some data in a game taking the internet by s...

Remember Universal Paperclips, that clicker game? Remember turning the human race into paperclips? Ok, so, what if you just... didn't? W...

Storming the Ivory Tower presents Shade World: A Player's Guide, a parafictional choose your own adventure experience, by Sam Keeper and...

Superman. Batman. Titans of their fictional universe. Who would win in a fight? To truly master this question we can't just smash the t...

Kingdom Hearts feels like a wild game of pretend played with every random thing the players had lying around. That's also what my exper...

Inside, spiritual successor to Limbo, is a game about control, but is anyone really at the reins of the game's dystopia? And can an ex...

Pokemon has a brilliant mechanical narrative where you're encouraged to treat your pokemon as living creatures, and use them to fashion...

If Pokemon games are about creating an identity, are fan games just an extension of gameplay?

Pokemon games, whether canon or fan-made, live or die based on the bond between Pokemon and players. Can we use the mechanics of the games ...

Three years ago I wrote an academic article about Twitch Plays Pokemon. The article was never published anywhere, but despite that blow to ...

The fan game Pokemon Uranium has some weird behaviors and some astounding glitches, but are those glitches just flaws, or are they importan...

China Mieville posits two types of horror: the Weird and the Hauntological. But the boundaries between the two are sometimes hard to make o...

AM2R--Another Metroid 2 Remake--made the news a few months ago when its long-anticipated release was immediately followed by a DMCA takedo...

The Chozo Temple Complex is beautiful, golden, expansive. It is a space of lurid yellows, soft oranges, and shadows shading almost into vio...

I have played agar.io quite a bit over the past month, but the way I've played hasn't exactly been consistent. Oh, I think I'v...

Many of my articles are driven, to a greater or lesser extent, by necessity. I have to weigh writing an article against considerations like...

Well look I'm sure you can play a browser game with a controller if you just TRY harder to- Oh, welcome back! My good friend Vivian J...

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Well look I know that rattling the controller around to charge the flashlight feels distracting but I’m sure if you just let yourself get us...