Dear Mother: Can games help me stay in touch after I move away from my family?
"I’m about to make a big life move away from my family into a completely different, opposite time zone..."
Dear Mother: Can games help me stay in touch after I move away from my family?
"I’m about to make a big life move away from my family into a completely different, opposite time zone..."
The mod that makes The Sims 4 sexy
Wicked Whims is nearly a decade old, and it's created a community around the way it opens up The Sims 4 for self expression — and kink.
Pokémon’s character customization lets me live like the girl I want to be — and I’m not the only one
In the world of Pokémon games, I found myself experimenting with styles I never could have dreamed of in reality
Latest
A love letter to the rhythm game communities that helped me find myself
It was in the arcade around DDR machines that I first met people like me — kids picked on for being "weirdos," for being neurodivergent, for being queer.
Dear Mother: Why can't I seem to finish games?
"What can I do to stay on track with my games? Should I even try to?"
Rest in peace, Bayonetta
A full-spoiler explanation as to why queer fans like me felt so disappointed by Bayonetta 3
The tavern keeper I couldn't be: How running a restaurant made me a better Dungeon Master
Being a DM and running a restaurant both require high emotional intelligence and awareness
Why do cozy games keep asking us to work, and why does it feel so good?
Developers of games like A Short Hike and Tiny Bookshop weigh in on why even labor feels nice in their games.
Dear Mother: It feels like everyone's played these video games. Should I?
How important is the video game canon, after all?
Indie
Perfect Tides: Station to Station is you, me, and Meredith Gran at 18
How can a narrative point-and-click make my heart beat so fast?
The Séance of Blake Manor's lead designer on why she made the game's clock so important
“I am a woman in her 40s who has the brain of a turnip.”
Spirit Swap developer Alex Abou Karam on marketing a game in times of war
"It was really hard [...] to be so focused on making a game about queer, trans, POC joy in the midst of so much abject intentional suffering."
Cozy
Why do cozy games keep asking us to work, and why does it feel so good?
Developers of games like A Short Hike and Tiny Bookshop weigh in on why even labor feels nice in their games.
Our favorite cozy games (for now)
All the games I'm playing right now that center empathy, kindness, friendship, and satisfying gameplay.
Dear Mother
Dear Mother: Why can't I seem to finish games?
"What can I do to stay on track with my games? Should I even try to?"
Dear Mother: It feels like everyone's played these video games. Should I?
How important is the video game canon, after all?
Dear Mother...
Curious about how to get your partner into games you love? Hoping to find a new genre that's within your budget? We can help!
Mods
Meet the modders making video game characters look "better" — whatever that means
How do modders figure out what's beautiful, what's sexy, and what their own fans might want?
Horror
The monster was right
How Doki Doki Literature Club exposes dating sims as systems that punish female autonomy
