Author: Christian Donlan

[ad_1] Hello! We’re going to start the year off with a handful of pieces looking forward to 2022. Sometimes we’ll be looking at trends we’ve spotted or themes that will probably be continuing to define things in games for a while. Sometimes we’ll just be thinking about things we’ve enjoyed and where they could lead.…

[ad_1] My copy of Hedra is a wonderfully odd thing. It’s tabloid size, and it’s printed on newspaper and has no staples. It feels a bit like an old student magazine. Inside, it is sheer poise and artistry and imagination. I first read about Hedra in a Polygon article back in 2020. A one-shot comic…

[ad_1] Hello! Over the next few days we’re going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us! For most of 2020 I was obsessed with a book, The Bells of Old Tokyo, by Anna…

[ad_1] At the very centre of The Gunk is a neat ecological fable, so it has a sort of moral and ethical sweetness to it from the off. Crucially, though, The Gunk is also a game about tidying up, and so that moral and ethical sweetness is knotted to something else that borders on a…

[ad_1] I have an update for a story I published a while back. It was a self-indulgent story, and it’s a self-indulgent update. Apologies very much in advance. Back in October I wrote a piece about a painting I really love – Capriccio: St Paul’s and a Venetian Canal, by William Marlow. It’s an obscure…