Killer Frequency | Review

Killer Frequency is a game about a late-night radio host and his producer who, due to events and circumstances, end up in charge of all emergency calls in the fictional town of Gallows Creek. Starting at midnight on a balmy late summer night, all 911 calls are going to be

The Ethics of Knowledge in Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West | Essay

Note: this essay was originally published on my Ko-fi and Patreon pages. I'm now archiving it here. In the Horizon series, knowledge as a concept is many things to many people. Empowerment and survival for some; for others, an object of desire. Or, a secret third thing: danger.

Monthly Playlists | Archive

January: A New Beginning (Mixtape) Welcome to 2022! We pitched 2021 out the airlock, now let's repair this spaceship! February: Drink Up, Me Hearties (Mixtape) Just like that, January's gone, but it's not quite yet spring. So what shall we become? Pirates! March: Sway

Eternal Threads | Review

Eternal Threads of time, or: how to save humanity one butterfly wingflap at a time. Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence. Developed by Cosmonaut Studios, based in Liverpool, and published by Secret Mode, it was released on PS4, the Nintendo Switch,

The Remains of the Cult (of the Lamb) | Essay

You’ve defeated the Bishops of the Old Faith, and the Witnesses that sprung up in their wake. You refused to relinquish the Red Crown; refused to bow to the One Who Waits. Your patron, the on in whose name you committed countless atrocities — in whose name do you fulfil

Concerning My Daughter — Kim Hye-Jin | Review

I can hardly believe that these words that had sunk deep inside me are surfacing and coming out through my own lips rather than resting heavily all the way to my grave. — Mother, Concerning My Daughter Recently I’ve been very taken with My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan

There's No Escape (It's In The Blood) | An Essay About Hades

The world very likely does not need another essay about Hades — its perfect gameplay loop, its well-judged narrative pacing and the tools it hands you to make your own luck in this shifting maze of chambers and stories — and yet here I am writing another one, because. Well. In short,

That Green-Eyed Girl — Julie Owen Moylan | Review

I couldn't imagine one day where I might be happy, or even sad in an ordinary way. I'd run away, but I couldn't seem to forget. — Dovie, That Green Eyed Girl That Green Eyed Girl tells two stories: one set in 1955, the other

Delilah Green Doesn't Care — Ashley Herring Blake | Review

From my Pride Reads list 2022, here’s Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake, #1 in the Bright Falls series! I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, which I very much enjoyed. In this sapphic rom-com featuring a lesbian and a bi woman as

Unpacking | Review

Unpacking, dev. Witchbeam, available on Nintendo Switch, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 A game about a life told through the act of unpacking it — and about queer joy. When you play Unpacking, the game is telling you its story without words — well, except for the caption

The Other Black Girl — Zakiya Dalila Harris | Review

The “Couldn’t put this down even for a sip of water” Award for June goes to: The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris. This medium-paced thriller in three acts has the perfect suspense arc from start to finish — it never lets up. The mystery and the terror are

Something Like Love — Christina C. Jones | Review

“Well… I think we should resume our ‘mutually beneficial exchange of energy…’ on an exclusive basis.” — Astrid, Something Like Love From my Pride Reads list 2022, here’s Something Like Love by Christina C. Jones, #6 in the Serendipitous Love series! I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Sean Crisden