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Reviews

• Unpacking — 11/11/21
• The Plane Effect — 10/15/21
• Can Androids Survive — 9/13/21
• The Fermi Paradox — 7/11/21
• The Wild at Heart — 6/9/21
• Forgotten Fields — 4/14/21

Bullet Points Monthly

• The Machinery of Complicity (Amnesia: Rebirth) — 10/30/20
• Liberty, License, and Leviathan (Far Cry 5) — 4/25/18

Electric Literature

• The Video Game That Shows Us What the E-Book Could Have Been — 8/29/17

Heterotopias

• Terrible Fascination | That Dragon, Cancer — 11/15/17

Unwinnable

• Never Alone Again (Digitally) — (With David Wolinsky) Unwinnable Monthly #106, 8/18
• On Canon — Exploits #1, 4/18
• Pyre: Better Blitzball — Unwinnable.com, 7/24/17
• I Love C-3PO — Unwinnable Weekly #74, 12/18/15
• Depth of Field — (On The Unfinished Swan and the slipperiness between genre and architecture in first-person shooters) Unwinnable Weekly #22, 11/7/14

The Backlog

• A Great Story and a Good Fluke — Unwinnable Monthly #121, 11/19
• On Silence — Unwinnable Monthly #120, 10/19
• Repeating Being — Unwinnable Monthly #117, 7/19
• Fire, Loss, and the Works of Hands — Unwinnable Monthly #116, 6/19
• Almost the Only Cats I Have Ever Had — Unwinnable Monthly #115, 5/19
• Nats Fans Bid Kid Fuck Off — Unwinnable Monthly #114, 4/19
• Whose Apocalypse? — Unwinnable Monthly #113, 3/19
• Partial List of Reasons for Writing a List in Place of a Column — Unwinnable Monthly #112, 2/19
• The Stiff Brown Cloth in Which the Knife is Kept — Unwinnable Monthly #111, 1/19
• What Was the Question and Why Do You Ask? — Unwinnable Monthly #110, 12/18
• What Matters and What Lasts — Unwinnable Monthly #109, 11/18
• Resolution State — Unwinnable Monthly #108, 10/18
• Shut It Down — Unwinnable Monthly #107, 9/18
• Culture Is Not Canon — Unwinnable Monthly #106, 8/18
• Absence Makes the Heart Something Something — Unwinnable Monthly #105, 7/18
• Unpacking — Unwinnable Monthly #104, 6/18
• The Adult in the Room — Unwinnable Monthly #103, 5/18
• Quick Takes — Unwinnable Monthly #102, 4/18
• Violent Videogames Are Violent — Unwinnable Monthly #101, 3/18
• No More, Please — Unwinnable Monthly #100, 2/18
• The Sense of an Ending — Unwinnable Monthly #99, 1/18
• To Hell with 2017, Bring on 2018 — Unwinnable Monthly #98, 12/17
• Looking at Mario — Unwinnable Monthly #97, 11/17
• The Games I’m Not Playing — Unwinnable Monthly #96, 10/17
• 20 Theses on Batman (Batman: The Telltale Series) — Unwinnable Monthly #95, 9/17
• Damnation and Dominion (The Fall) — Unwinnable Monthly #94, 8/17
• Summer Doldrums (Hotline Miami, Titan Souls, and Touch My Katamari) — Unwinnable Monthly #93, 7/17
• Jack in Purgatory (Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku) — Unwinnable Monthly #92, 6/17
• A Strange Hill to Die On (What Remains of Edith Finch) — Unwinnable Monthly #91, 5/17
• Consumption and Ruin (Elegy for a Dead World and Proteus) — Unwinnable Monthly #90, 4/17
• Intimacy and Interpretation (The Beginner’s Guide) — Unwinnable Monthly #89, 3/17
• The Ground on Which Our Stories Are Contested (Final Fantasy VI) — Unwinnable Monthly #88, 2/17
• Neither Here Nor There (Final Fantasy VI) — Unwinnable Monthly #87, 1/17
• Falling Happily Behind — Unwinnable Monthly #86, 12/16
• Against Humanity (Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon) — Unwinnable Monthly #85, 11/16
• The Fear in a Handful of Dust (Limbo) — Unwinnable Monthly #84, 10/16
• The Sand and the Sea (Abzû) — Unwinnable Monthly #83, 9/16
• Deconstruction (Rampage) — Unwinnable Monthly #82, 8/16
• Artificial Dreams (The Talos Principle) — Unwinnable Monthly #81, 7/16
• Compromises (Star Wars Starfighter) — Unwinnable Monthly #80, 6/16
• On (Not) Finishing Videogames — Unwinnable Monthly #79, 5/16
• Magic and Missing Moms (Ni no Kuni) — Unwinnable Monthly #78, 4/16
• The Sounds of Sworcery (Sword & Sworcery EP) — Unwinnable Monthly #77, 3/16
• Playing with Madness (Eternal Darkness) — Unwinnable Monthly #76, 2/16
• The Year of the Backlog — Unwinnable Monthly #75, 1/16

 

Kill Screen

• Why paper? — 11/23/15
• Scale against humanity in Xenoblade Chronicles — 4/14/15
• Crash Bandicoot and the end of videogame mascots — 2/25/15
• The Year in Blank Space — 12/18/14
• What does it mean for a videogame to be always on? — 6/6/14
• Finding a place where I don’t belong in The Elder Scrolls Online — 4/15/14
• Can big data be open data? — 10/23/13

Reviews

• Star Fox Zero — 4/28/16
• Transformers: Devastation — 10/27/15
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime — 9/28/15
• N++ — 8/11/15
• Pneuma — 7/30/15
• Her Story — 7/1/15
• Life Is Strange, Episode 3 — 5/28/15
• Life Is Strange, Episode 2 — 5/21/15
• Crypt of the NecroDancer — 5/1/15
• White Night — 4/10/15
• Aaru’s Awakening — 3/24/15
• Kirby and the Rainbow Curse — 3/5/15
• Far Cry 4 — 1/7/15
• A Bird Story — 11/24/14
• Spirits of Spring — 10/7/14
• Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — 9/4/14
• Road Not Taken — 8/6/14
• Kentucky Route Zero Act III — 5/13/14
• Jazzpunk — 2/6/14
• Final Fantasy XIV — 10/21/13

 

Videodame

• Jarring Free — (On The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 1) 3/1/14

 

Snarkmarket

• Or Not — (On The Stanley Parable) 6/3/14
• Old Blood — (On Apotheon and the difference between ancient Greek visual art and poetry) 2/21/14
• Laughing at the Game — (On Beyond: Two Souls and camp) 11/6/13

 

The Bygone Bureau

• Into the Myst — (with Sara Clemens) 8/15/13

 

Bit Creature

• Genre in Question — (On comedy and videogames) 5/7/13
• This Is a Story About a Child — 4/9/13
• Oh, the Mundanity — (On Mass Effect 3‘s Citadel DLC) 3/12/13
• (Not) Seeing Is (Not) Believing — (On Heavy Rain) 2/14/13