Emotive Pixels — Marginalia on Videogames

We remove all the limbs, and are not triggered by any of it. In a bonus segment, we also fail to escape prison.

We visit Mortimer Goth's digs while creating a gorgeous but confusing [Loading...] bridge to the undead and time-warped.

A smattering of minisodes. We cover: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, Cult of the Lamb, Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores, and also, more quickly: Dear Esther, Resident Evil Village (demo), Venba, Madison Karrh's "Birth", The Master's Pupil, Terra Nil, Suzerain, Roadwarden, Dave the Diver (speculative), Inscryption, Haven, Deathloop, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Viewfinder, Forza Horiz...

Craig has a blast being a dog.

We try to classify Alan Wake, like, as a person. Alan Wake from the Control universe

We tango our way through the tensions between Finance and R&D.

We explore the historical and theological sides of Josh Sawyer's Pentiment with an enjoyer of all things Lutheran.

We journey deep into City 17 in true first person mode, and discover who employs the G-Man.

We explore a procedural Chicago, in which we were twice joined by an open-hearted A$AP Rocky.

We learn Kratos's full story, and ponder why Microsoft struggles with the Sony flavor of AAA.

We journey to the hopeless glittering land of Revachol, where tides of history wash over citizens in ways we are unaccustomed to.

We reconvene after giving Immortality some time, and ingesting some thinkpieces.

We process what we absorbed from Sam Barlow's film fragment exploration game. In the next episode, we dive deeper.

We have our minds blown by just how much is going on in the Final Fantasy VII Remake part 1 and INTERmission Intergrade. Referenced pictures: one, and two

We debate whether DVD menus are games. In Space With Markiplier, part 1 In Space With Markiplier, part 2 Bloopers & Behind-the-scenes Corridor Crew + Markiplier Our favorite channels: Craig: Noclip, People Make Games, Writing On Games, Game Maker's Toolkit, MKBHD, Johnny Harris, Binging With Babish, Luke Thomas, Kinda Funny Nate: Regular Car Reviews ("Mr. Regular"), Numberphile,...

We turn the art dial on mental health to 11.

We fail to live up to Lucas Pope's hopes in his artsy and ambitious supernatural high seas detective followup to Papers Please.

We solve the mysteries of Perfect 25 to a soundtrack of divine Scottish citypop. Road to IGF : Inside the fantastic murder-mystery design of Paradise Killer Interview with Kaizen Game Works LudoNarracon livestream with Kaizen Game Works XGM Radio Episode 70 w/ Composer Barry "Epoch" Topping' seems to have been lost to time... Making the Music of Paradise Killer Music for Paradise : A...

We process the deaths of 150 years in a labyrinthine house in Friday Harbor, Washington. Shall We Play a Game? , What's Good Games , Ólafur Arnalds

We traverse the United Cities of Iceland and reconnect America.

We discuss the emotional impacts of two large presences in our year of Covid, and attempt to process why the experience of playing these two games felt somehow transcendent in a year of isolation, loneliness, and a void of travel. GeoGuessr , a free to play online gamified Google Maps Street View game astronaut.io , a website that randomly serves unseen YouTube videos and somehow strikes a similar...

We talk about our perception of the themes and designers' intents in this labyrinthine surreal art of 5 acts, conceived and released over a decade in the wake of American recession. Un Pueblo de Nada , or all WEVP broadcasts GDC '14: The Scenography of Kentucky Route Zero Junebug's solo album Eggplant's 'Into the Depths' series Justin Clark's GameSpot review Personal re...

On our first episode recorded since 2017, we gather to discuss Snowrunner and its predecessors, off-roading games about driving trucks through miserably gorgeous terrain. Check out the Story Break episode proposing a movie based on Snowrunner ! Naturally, it's a Tarkovsky flick.

We compare a game of contextual discovery to a game whose incredible philosophy is apparently all skippable.

This week, we take to the streets in 2015's return to form for a gigantic franchise that got so lost it even had a movie before examining its roots.