We now have sequels to two of the most well-known “dad games”, but only one of them feels like a mature meditation on what the role of a father should be. — This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us 1 and 2, God of War (2018) and God of War: Ragnarök. The God of War franchise has always been about the rage-fuelled demi-god Kratos and his fantastical giant-slaying feats, and the latest iteration gives us plenty of opportunities to murder…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/QYijbqLSqL8 Imagine an island, wistful and dreamlike. An island of chrome and moonlight passion and long hot summers and endless cocktails under the palm trees. Imagine a perfect sphere of ice slipping into your favourite glass, the…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/gwaZQ9JO2dM “Not till we are lost, in other words, not til we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations”. -Henry David Thoreau …

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/UY9n4CuwzKE I’d like to share something that happened to me while playing Ghost of Tsushima, a game I picked up a few months ago. Despite my well-documented reservations about AAA open world games, I liked this one…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/QwloiRmPHis I don’t know where my love of water came from. My mum, who is definitely watching this video, will definitely say that it’s because I’m a Pisces, and even though I do not believe in astrology…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/KU_eHFaVISQ Hey. I’m Kat, and I never met a South Korean zombie drama I didn’t love. In 2016, there was the surprisingly moving smash hit Train to Busan, and then we got 2019’s supremely entertaining show Kingdom…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/QgDXMyAs-VY They plodded on, thin and filthy as street addicts. Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breath smoking, shuffling through the black and silky drifts. They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the…

This entire article contains spoilers for the general plot points of The Three-Body Problem. Major spoilers for events that occur later in the book will be specifically marked. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin is one of the most successful science fiction novels to come out of China. Achieving breakthrough…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/6fXIEeU4tPg Outer Wilds is a game so untethered from modern video game conventions it’s hard to think of another game that goes its own way so ambitiously. Each one of its five planets, with the exception of…