Theatre of the Year, 2024

Another great year for games (and a terrible year for the games industry)! Honestly, the overabundance of games coming out every single day makes it feel like there’s kind of...

What a fun year for movies! I think that I’ve done a pretty solid job of keeping up with new releases (by my standards, anyway), as well as making time...

It’s been a bit of a down year for reading for me, sorry to say. 2024 started off strong for me, with a series of books that I thoroughly enjoyed...

From Jake Steinberg’s essay Gamers Don’t Understand Story: “Storytelling in games is not confined to the cinematic or the literary. It is in the spaces we inhabit, the paths we trace,...

In a recent episode of the excellent podcast Into the Aether, Stephen Hilger raised an excellent question. To paraphrase: when something calls itself a game, what is required of it for...