Goodbye, Astronomer: The Symbolism of Stars in Night in the Woods
This post contains major spoilers for Night in the Woods. It’s easy to see why 2017’s indie adventure game Night in the Woods is going down as one of the best […]
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Review: King’s Quest (2015-2016)
It was a great day for Roberta Williams fans when Sierra announced that they were relaunching her flagship adventure game series, King’s Quest. As you all know, I’m a big […]
Pokémon Go: An App for the Modern Flâneur
Pokémon Go has created a new class of urban pedestrians, and as I watch them walking to hatch eggs or loitering around lured PokéStops, I have one overwhelming impression: Nineteenth-century […]
King’s Quest Retrospective: V-VII
It’s always pleasing when a technological advance lines up neatly with a decade, and sure enough, computer games took a huge step forward in 1990. The latter three King’s Quest […]
King’s Quest Retrospective: I-IV
In honor of the new King’s Quest series now being painfully slowly rolled out, let’s take a retrospective look at one of the most seminal computer game series of the […]
Representation in the Carmen Sandiego Games
The Internet Archive recently dealt a crippling blow to productivity with the release of its MS-DOS games library, which includes some 2,400 games from the DOS era. While the original […]
Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alien Gender
This article was originally posted at Feminist Borg. One of the areas in which the male-dominated nature of the media often shows through with dazzling clarity is in the gender […]
Indie Game Round-Up
Doad says that his impulse-buy threshold is about $2.50. It got free reign during the Steam fall sale, and we’ve had a chance to peruse some of the notable new […]