South of Midnight is a master class in cultural appreciation
I’m a French Black woman whose favorite game of 2025 was not Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. And how could it be, when South of Midnight was released around the same time?
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Managing hostesses in Yakuza 0's cabaret club is a surprisingly feminist mini-game
Club Sunshine, it seems, can change the lives of all who enter
Dear Mother, what do you do when the fascists get you down?
"When you’re acting in good faith, it’s hard to understand that other people simply aren’t giving you that good faith back."
Video games need to do better than treating skin like skins
Painting skin color as an inconsequential aspect of identity erases the unique ways Black bodies navigate the world
A not-at-all-mandatory list of video games Black folks should play at least once
Black gamers aren’t a monolith…However, these games are certified classics.
Shapes, not bodies: Queer readings of gaming's oldest avatars
In games like Adventure and Pac-Man, players were used to inhabiting bodies with far fewer defining features
10 years in, Stardew Valley's binary approach to gender still gets a failing grade
We can marry whoever we like in Pelican Town, so why no they/them pronouns?
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
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.
