Witches and warped reality, but which witch watches who? The WandaVision TV show didn’t seem likely to spawn a trilogy, but it caught the...
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Slay the Princess
Slay the Princess is a weird game. We’re going to start with that right from the opening. You are in the woods, on a path, and a narrator tells...
Color-changing glasses
Photochromic lenses, the ones that change from clear to dark in sunlight, have been around for decades. While the quality of the effects have been...
Darkest book in all of fiction
A common thread running through the various Black Ocean series is the Tome of Bleeding Thoughts. It’s a cursed book that afflicts its few survivors...
Donnie Darko
The movie that set the bar for weird movies Donnie Darko is a story about a highschool boy who doesn’t die when a jet engine crashes into his...
Oxenfree
Choices echo through time in this game Oxenfree is a narrative choice game where you play as Alex, a highschooler from a small town, going to an...
RobotCop
Robot unemployment hits all-time high...Maybe it did TOO good a job? The town of Dublin, Ohio has fired a police officer. This particular officer...
Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal got a somehow darker prequel In an era of increasingly rare practical effects, it’s a small miracle that Dark Crystal: Age of...
Gibbous, a Cthulhu Adventure
A light take on a dark universe Gibbous, A Cthulhu Adventure, it a point-and-click adventure revolving around the discovery of the Necronomicon and...
City-Cooling Bricks
Smart bricks for hot cities Cities get hotter than the surrounding countryside. Heat Islands are a long-known phenomenon, largely attributable to...
Watchmen
A look at the dark side of heroes Watchmen is a classic 1986 comic by the legendary Alan Moore that became a movie in 2009. Just as the...
Chrononauts
There’s a reason casual time travel isn’t possible Chrononauts is a game where you play as meddling time travelers, each with a secret agenda...
Universal Vaccines
Is this the end to mutation whack-a-mole? Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a universal coronavirus vaccine. That’s awesome....
Murder at the End of the World
In Murder at the End of the World, main character Darby Hart is a true-crime junkie who wrote a book about a cold case she helped crack....
Minds Beneath Us
A game for now and the future—Keep an open mind to subtext Minds Beneath Us is a narrative game where choices can get a little more...
Poll: Who creates the AI Singularity?
With AI on everyone's mind these days, it's as good a time as any to talk about the Singularity (the kind where the S is capitalized)....
Elio – a lighthearted sci-fi romp
Elio is a Pixar film that rigorously ticks all the boxes. Protagonist is an orphan? Yep. Found family? Check. A minor on a poorly supervised...
Blade Runner TTRPG
Do Androids Dream of Tabletop RPGs? Is roleplaying a replicant a step less human than being one? I'm trying something different this week. Rather...
Tangible holograms
Images you can move with your hands Did you ever watch Minority Report or any MCU movie and drool over the idea of having a computer...
Wheel of Time
There Are Neither Beginnings or Endings to the Turning of the Wheel of Time. But the show had to begin somewhere... Amazon Prime’s adaptation of...
Children of Silentown
…you’ll love this mysterious village Stay quiet. Do as you’re told. DON’T go into the forest. These are the rules for the Children of...
Tech-enhanced instruments
You don’t need a music teacher to get started When Guitar Hero came out in 2005, a lot of players caught flack for playing plastic guitars...
Resident Alien
He came in peace to leave us in pieces. Still a better doctor than the town had before. In Resident Alien, Alan Tudyk crashes on Earth and...
Solar Storm
The Ship is Falling Apart. Can You Escape? It's a race against time with an hourglass full of broken parts. Evacuating a starship is a common enough...