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Lovecraft Country Episode 2 Review: “Whitey’s on the Moon”

Warning: This article contains mentions of racism, racist violence, slavery, rape, death, gun violence, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. Where Lovecraft Country left us with last week’s striking first episode, our heroes found themselves harried, harangued and worse for wear, but with…

The Witcher Augmented Reality Game Forthcoming

Following in the vein of location-based augmented reality (AR) games for mobile phones such as Niantic’s Pokemon Go and Ludia Inc.’s Jurassic World Alive, CD Projekt Red recently released a video announcement for forthcoming mobile AR game The Witcher: Monster Slayer. Developed…

Women and Queerness in Horror: Lyle

Warning: This article contains mentions of child death, pregnancy, childbirth, psychological manipulation, drowning, and spoilers for Lyle. Heading into this week with the third of my three “queer mama drama” horror pieces, if you will, brings us Stewart Thorndike’s Lyle. This particular…

Jessika (PC) Review

Warning: This article contains mentions of racism, racial slurs, racist violence, abuse, sexual assault, alcohol and drug use, and suicide, as well as mild spoilers for Jessika. Jessika, by Tritrie Games, is self-described as a “full motion video mystery adventure”. Throughout the…

Lovecraft Country Episode 1 Review: “Sundown”

Warning: This article contains mentions of racism and racist violence, and slight spoilers for Lovecraft Country Episode 1. Before I say anything else, I want to say: go read black writers’ reviews of this episode and this show. Use your search engine…

Lilly Looking Through (PC) Review

Lilly Looking Through, by Geeta Games, can above all else be described as charming. It’s a fairly straightforward point-and-click puzzle adventure, allowing for easy entry and a comfortable, pleasant gameplay experience. As you play Lilly Looking Through, you control the titular protagonist,…

Women and Queerness in Horror: Grace

Content warnings: This article contains spoilers for Grace (2009), as well as discussion of pregnancy, miscarriages, childbirth, and stillbirth. Watching Good Manners last week turned me on (no, not like that) to a subset of queer horror movies that (until now) completely…

The Sims 4 Listens to Players, Finally, Sort Of

Two months following a Change.org petition requesting a color wheel for skin tones in The Sims 4 reached 87,604 signatures, Executive Producer Lyndsay Pearson posted a roughly two-minute-long video to her Twitter account. The recorded statement — and transcript subsequently posted to…

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension (PC) Review

There’s a lot going on, in this game that isn’t a game. This non-game, is developed and published by Draw Me A Pixel, which is definitely not a French indie game company. Seriously, trust me: Nothing happens. Absolutely zero. I stared at…

Women and Queerness in Horror: Good Manners

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Good Manners, mentions of pregnancy and death by childbirth, mentions of animal death and child death, and mentions of racism. Staying in last week’s vein of international horror films with queer women at their center, this…