I’d like to make a confession: I’ve only played two games in the increasingly popular roguelike genre, FTL: Faster Than Light and Enter the Gungeon. While fun, they reminded me too […]
Minor plot spoilers ahead: One thought kept coming back as I played though the first few hours of Past Cure, the third-person action/stealth debut from German indie developer, Phantom 8 […]
“Greetings, policies.” If you know about the HartLife Insurance Company, the mole people revolution, or urban legends of ant-people, then chances are you’ve listened to Chicago’s ongoing podcast radio drama, […]
After a few hours of playing Treasure Adventure World, I was waiting for that moment where the soft, cute game aesthetics would begin to drop away to revel the creepy, […]
When the The Last Jedi was announced at the end of 2016, I thought I was pretty much done with Star Wars. I liked The Force Awakens well enough, but […]
When we look back at the gaming landscape of 2017, what will we see? Will it be the turning point for Nintendo with smash hits like Zelda: Breath of the […]
Volume three of the Paper Girls graphic novel continues the story of four young newspaper delivery girls from Stony Stream, Cleveland, circa 1988, and their adventure across the past, future, […]
The original Hand of Fate was a fun mashup of a deck-building style trading card game meshed with combat reminiscent of the Batman Arkham series. In practice Hand of […]
In 2009, Chicago webcomic cartoonist C. Spike Trotman, under her own publishing company, Iron Circus Comics, created the Kickstarter page for her first crowdfunded comic, “Poorcraft.” Since then, Iron Circus has […]
After playing Space Pirates and Zombies 2 a bit, I went back in my Steam library to boot up the original Space Pirates and Zombies. What I completely forgot was a […]
Last week on Kickstarter, a project to fund a fully-colored complete hardcover printing of Danielle Corsetto’s ten year long Reuben Award winning webcomic, “Girls With Slingshots.” Released through the Chicago-based […]