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…

GRIS is a beautiful game. In fact it’s one of the most drop-dead gorgeous games I’ve played recently. Take a screenshot at random and chances are it wouldn’t be out of place if you framed and mounted it on your wall. …

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/1VEzL1Gy2v4 This is a love letter to my favourite game studio. A studio that has, over the years, consistently produced captivating games that exist at the forefront of innovative artistic design and cinematic storytelling, and almost as…

This article contains spoilers for Skyfall and No Time to Die. When Casino Royale released in 2006, the reboot of the beloved 007 franchise was hailed as a resounding success. It had been over 40 years since Sean Connery first watched Ursula Andress striding out of the ocean, the franchise…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/5FMtjGoORp0 I want to talk about family, memory, and story. I want to talk about how memories become stories — the kinds of stories that get repeated so often through the generations, they become enduring myths that…

This is the transcript of a Youtube video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/DWpjyTw8-Pc Welcome to my video essay on NieR: Automata. In this video, I’d like to offer my critique on a game that was lauded by critics and embraced by fans. I’m going to lay out my case…