I think most people my age played Drug Wars on their TI-83 calculators in high school in study hall. If you ever wanted a game to capture that feeling of […]

Developed by Consumer Softproducts, “The Authority on Life”, Cruelty Squad is hard to describe without including words like weird, nightmare, depressing, or grotesque. It’s like H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński […]

Mortal Shell is a hardcore third person action game we were excited for (and impressed with) when it first came out in August of last year. With the recent release […]

Author, journalist, and academic Walter Isaacson and WBEZ’s chief content officer Steve Edwards were brought together virtually to speak to the Chicago Humanities Festival about Isaacson’s new biography The Code […]

Damn, 30XX is a great idea—I’m sorry I missed out on 20XX when it originally released. I’m already a huge fan of the classic Mega Man game formula: choose the […]

Nostalgia in video games can be useful to connect with players. There’s an entire genre of platformers built to look like old school games and some of them are very […]

It begins with the familiar refrain, arguably the three most famous words in American literature. “Call me Ishmael.” But the voice of this Ishmael is different. The voice is unmistakably female […]

There was a time in my life where all I would play was first person shooters and the occasional real-time strategy game. The concept of a game that mixed first-person […]

Some guy on ESPN the other day was complaining again about men who bring a mitt to Major League Baseball games, and I just don’t get it. Maybe that’s because […]

The Catastrophist, by Lauren M. Gunderson, succeeds as a story that informs us about science and tears at our hearts about love, death and grieving. It soars from the scientific […]

In the final months of the years-long Bosnian war (1992-1995), a conflict that pitted Bosnia and Herzegovina against factions backed by Croatia and Serbia, the brutally iconic events of July […]

It’s not always easy to adapt for the screen a work originally written for the stage, and the degree to which any such adaptation is successful relies on both the […]