Bad Dinners & Existential Crisis - Slay The Princess (ft. @KatieandCatburger)

There is No Borderlands Without Friends

Sword of the Sea Hits Different

A look at climbing games and their themes. Centering the games Jusant and Cairn, as well as the web comic DeadPoint

A look at the relatable philosophy of Death’s Door

How to Design a PUNISHING Game

SilkSong's "Bloodborne Problem"

What Even Was Slay The Princess?

The WORST Way to Analyze a Game

Elden Ring & "Jolly Cooperation"

Elden Ring: A Story in Seasons

Best DAD in Video Games?

Comparison is the Death of Joy

Open Worlds that Truly Live

The UNKNOWN Gaming Genre You Already Love

Can we talk about how we talk about music in video games?

Don’t just say, “It’s good.”

Looking at how Voice of Cards The Isle Dragon’s Roar creates that tabletop gaming feeling.

Playing All Difficulties At Once

Rejecting the God of War: Ragnarok

Tora no Hideo Kojima & Memes

ReWriting Past Wrongs - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The Elder Scrolls is Final Fantasy, Actually

All Video Games Are RPGs

Can A Dialogue System Feel "Organic"?

Social Link Shortcuts - Tales of Arise

Is Vampire Survivors a Video Game?

Is Flow Harmful Game Design?

What Happens When Gamers Can't Consent?

Can Gamers Consent To Be Harmed?

Is Video Game Gambling Bad?

Golden Order: Christendom in Elden Ring

Cold Nihilism: Elden Ring's Dark Moon

Burning Gnosticism: Elden Ring's Frenzied Flame

Manifest Destiny: Elden Lord of Blood

Dead Men Tell Tall Tales - ft. Sting

Video Game Demos - Standalone or Integrated?

How I Became a Soulslike Boy

Reddit Philosophers Talking About Video Games

Devilish Humanity: Comparative Analysis of Ninja Theory & Capcom's Devil May Cry DMC

Nothing Without the Furies - Disco Elysium. How Disco Elysium resists analysis

Playing with Homo Ludens. A deep dive in Johan Huizinga’s highly influence book on the philosophy of play.

Inversion of Power in Shadow of the Colossus

Pro Fighting Game Controls?

Hold Back to Block... Like A Coward

The Best Buttons in Video Games

Time Diversion Therapy, Fishing, and You

Body Language in Video Games

What Even Is an Indie Game?

The Role of Babble in Language and Games

Is Game Over a Failure of Game Design?

Those English Platformers like Mario

Liminal Space Boss Fights

How Hit Stop Was Invented

The Beauty of Pre-Rendered Backgrounds

The Paratext of My Favorite Games

What Even is Conveyance?

Keep Tilting on Games

The Worst Visual in All Video Games

Complexity is NOT Quality

Freedom is Contingent

Product Placement Ethics in Video Games

Monkey Island Reinvented Ludonarrative

Jedi Fallen Order is Afraid of Art

Index Languages for Video Games

The BEST Level in Katamari Damacy

Resonance of the Ocean; Dissonance in Me

The Gaslighting of AI the Somnium Files - Uchikoshi Kotaru

Classic Game Battle Royale Are Dead

LoveLive Games are WAY AHEAD of Rhythm Game Design

I Cannot Trust Myself

Mobile Games on Consoles?

Teaching Happiness Economics with Neon White

Card Games Have Changed...

State of Mind: White Knights Perpetuate Violence

Yoku's Pinball Platformer

The First Tree, The Last Tweet

Books About Video Games YOU Should READ

The Agonist Quality of Play

Are Chain Letters a Video Game?

"Gamer Is My Personality"

Seeing Myself For The First Time in Mafia 3

How to Write A Language for Games?

Tell Me Your Value!

Meaningful Permadeath

Heroic Motherhood in Video Games

What Makes a Game Funny?

Map Size is Meaningless

Can Lies Be Game Design?

Balenciaga Age of Tomorrow

I wish Elden Ring's player character was nice

Mass Effect is Anti-Racist

Is Blasphemous for Catholics?

Console Selling Games: Spiders

Forgotten Key's Mid-Poly Aesthetic

Kingdom Hearts is Daoist

Journey to The Savage Capitalism, with Journey to The Savage Planet

Translating One Sentence In Psychonauts 2

Best Thing About Nintendo Switch

Trials Within Sacrifice

Kingdom Hearts Xehanort is an Objectivist Villain

Tic Tac Toe: Winning On Offense

Moonlighter For A Fair Price

True Space Economics in a Rebel Galaxy

The Relic of Social Games

Kingdom Hearts Fully Explained in Less Than 2 Minutes

The Ahimsa of Undertale

The Comedy of Disco Elysium

The Level Design of Limbo

Death From Above - Carmella Garuda Build - Warframe

The Easiest Best Way to BEAT Malenia Blade of Miquella

Is Dark Souls Obsolete?

Zeldan Ring

The Cultural Impact of Sekiro. A retrospective on Sekiro’s performance in the games market, and why the aesthetic appeals differ from the Dark Souls series

The Zen of Isaac, with Ludiscere

VR Anime Girls & Player Stories, with Straszfilms

Basmu - The Mass Effect Rifle in WARFRAME

The Dread of Waiting

NATARUK Design Fixes Bows! | WARFRAME

The aesthetics of low fidelity music, but expressed in gameplay instead.

Such is life.

Was Elden Ring Too Big?

The Tarnished are Plant People - An Elden Ring Theory

Elden Ring is a Professional Nightmare

SOMA has some ethical issues regarding life support systems, and no one talks about it. Well I’ve see “What is robots were people?” stories before. I want to talk about this instead.

ELDEN RING : What's so good about it?

Comfort from Kegare - A Tales of Zerstiria Restrospective.

Reflecting on Bennett Foddy’s Getting Over It, and my own conflict with the Absurdist worldview.

Horizon: Zero Dawn - The Ethics of Drone Warffare and AI

Identifying With Our Games. Afterthoughts Collaboration

Lizards Are Important! - Shadow of the Colossus

The philosophy of love and romance as explored in Haven by The Game Bakers

Ghost of Tsushima Evolved Open World Games

A Practical Dark Souls Easy Mode

Is speedrunning a waste of time?

MMO Combat is basically Bullet Hell

Skyrim Doesn't Have This... Forgotten City Does

Why Aren't Games More Poetic?

Double Fine is Top Of Mind!

ft. Arcadology / PixelLit Collaboration

How To Design Flight for Games - Gravity Rush

Multiplayer Game Anxiety?

Multiplayer Games & Anger

My Golden Record Game. Chariot_Rider Essay Collaboration

Bloodborne's Easy Mode? (Megaman Design Philosophy)

Revisiting the ethics of The Phantom Thieves. Did I get it wrong last time? Let’s take another look with fresh eyes.

Are Exclusive Games Anti-Consumer?

No Love for Roguelikes

Are Game Loops RUINING Your Games?

The Most Useless Term in Games Journalism - Nintendo Polish

Minimaps, What Are They Good For?

A Critique of Global Level Scaling

ALL Action Games Are Rhythm Games!

Why I Love Fighting Games

Video Games Cause Violence, Maybe?

You Should Play Short Games

Anthem Next's Destiny was FAILURE

Unremarkable Heroes in Halo ODST ft. The Checkpoints Show!

The philosophy of Bertrand Russell made real as a ludic experience. My favorite game of 2020.

Exploring the ethics of making the best of a bad situation. A game by spiders.

What Senua’s Sacrifice reveals about the so-called “healthy” minds of its players.

The worldbuilding of Buddhism and Hinduism as inspired by the two religions philosophical depictions of ontology.

The Unfinished Swan. A Fairytale for a Midlife Crisis

Looking at Control, and how it depicts pragmatism as a failure for addressing the creation of human values. If you could manifest your values as a superpower, would your original values survive?

Which is more important? Justice or Peace? If you could achieve peace without bringing wrongdoers just punishment, would you choose it?

Looking at how the story of Furi expresses a deep critique of the rhetorics surrounding the prison industrial complex.

Exploring the hyper-individualism of Remnant From The Ashes’ story. Yes, the game does have a story you can follow!

Exploring the themes of faith, and the loss of faith, presented in Red Dead Redemption. Arthur Morgan’s journey of redemption as he comes to question the lifestyle of an outlaw.

Reviewing how Socrates, the founder of philosophy in Europe, was depicted in Assassin’s Creed AND its game play.

A short look at the philosophy within the story of Code Vein

Three Games That Inspired Me

Super Mario 64, with Game Wisdom!

Metal Gear Solid 3's Cold War, with Tom O'Regan!

Banjo Kazooie is Persona 4, with Designing For!

Games for Miserable Times featuring This War of Mine

Looking at the ethical ideas expressed in The Last of Us, specifically around the actions of the main protagonist, Joel.

A short look at the philosophy of the Mono-Myth as expressed in the game Journey by thatgamecompany.

Pat Holleman on XenoGears

Games Get NO Respect

Soft Rating Systems in Games

Bloodborne's Better Treasure Chests

Game Overanalyser on Shadow of the Colossus

Mortal Ethics of Sekiro

Kaihatsu on Minecraft

How the action puzzle platformer Catherine by Atlus Games created a dialogue with players about sex, gender, romance, relationships, and ethics.

I’m not gonna say this video is the actual, true meaning of Bloodborne finally solved… Because HoneyBat was the actual first person to do that. But why not also apply some Hippocratic Medicine theory and Cartesian Dualism to the game also?

Dead Fox on Night In The Woods

Moments of calm and bliss precede the grand monster fights of Dauntless.

Review of Console Wars by Blake Harris

What’s Missing from Sekiro?

What makes good game design? Is it as simple as thinking something is cool? Yes. Yes it is.

Looking at the influence of the philosopher Boethias and his dialogue with Lady Philosophy in the lore of The Elder Scrolls Skyrim’s Deadric Prince Boethiah.

How Warframe Evolved the "Headshot"

The Banner Saga: Leadership in Survival

Looking at how the idea of “fun” can limit one’s concept of game design.

CAPOEIRA & BOXING STYLE! | DMC5's Balrog

Looking at the ethos of humanist ethics in the Devil May Cry game series. In the cringiest, campiest way possible.

Kingdom Hearts 3 Therapy (Fan Retrospective)

Arcade Nostalgia in High Score Girl

The Ethics of Peter Parker in Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man (PS4)

Kingdom Hearts: Emotional Intelligence as Storytelling

The mysterious, cyber-horror aesthetic, the sudden feeling of depth when looking at some of the backgrounds, and the exponential feeling of escalation you get as you obtain new weapons and upgrade tools are thrilling and at times overwhelming. Above all is its elegant delivery of three different schools of thought related to the philosophy of science in the order of a deep and complex narrative world. The Many-Worlds theory, PanPsychism, and Solipsism.

What is a Masterpiece?

Looking at how Plato’s Allegory of the Cave informs the opening act of Atelier Firis

Looking at how philosophies of rhetoric, how one argues for and against ideas, informs the story of Pillars of Eternity.

Looking at how the philosophy of American Pragmatism informed the parenting of Kratos in God of War

Philosophy as Lifestyle in Yakuza Kiwami. Kiwami means extreme.

Just War Theory in Valkyria Revolution

Utilitarianism in God Eater Burst

Looking at how the game Valkyria Revolution was informed by the Great Men Theory of History

Reading an old review of Final Fantasy XIII that I wrote in college. For Fun.

Cappadocian Philosophy in Atelia Sophie. Not wholly different from ordering a Cappuccino.

Cynicism & Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy

What Qualifies for Philosophy in Anime and Games?

Seeing Myself in Assassin’s Creed Origins

Aristotle in Atelier Sophie

Absurdism in The Yakuza Series

Is Geralt of Rivia a Cynic or a Stoic?

Issues with Kishoutenketsu - Persona 5's Plot Twists

Religious Science in Mass Effect: Andromeda

Persona 5 On Ambition

Persona 5: On Justice

Sophism in Persona 5

Mind Body Dualism in Bloodborne

The Proxy War of Horizon: Zero Dawn, Drone Warfare

Noblesse Oblige in Final Fantasy XV

Zelda, The Witcher, and Open World Game Standards

The Philosophy of SAO | Bartel's Taxonomy

Meaning in a Dog Tag - Final Fantasy XV

The Underground Railroad - Freedom in Fallout 4

How War Unites People in Valkyria Chronicles

Racism in Valkyria Chronicles

Philosophy of Dark Souls 3

Philosophy of Freedom Wars

BioShock’s long-lasting claim to fame is its non-straightforward critiques of utopian philosophy, but very specifically of Ayn Rand’s social, behavioral philosophy, so called “Objectivism.” She was educated, emigrated to the United States, and survived due to the financial support of her mother, who practiced the Jewish faith. Her career as a publicly known author was kickstarted by a government sponsored subsidy for the arts.

XCOM2 is Controlling your Mind!

KRATOS, NOSTALGIA, & SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS ~ Tales of Symphonia

Sentient AI and Video Games

DON'T TALK ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT! ~ A Small Talk at the Back of Beyond

ALICE MADNESS RETURNS, TONS OF QUESTIONS!

7 DAYS IS DESCARTES' DILEMMA!