Review:Her Majesty’s Ship Drops Anchor on Switch, Is Wasted Potential
When I first came across Her Majesty’s Ship I was surprised how great it looked on paper, or in this case, on the Switch store’s page. The gameplay made it […]
Review: Game Dev Tycoon Makes its Way to Switch and Is Just as Addictive as Ever
I played Game Dev Tycoon at its original release—which was over seven years ago now. I remember I had a really good time with it, but I haven’t thought about […]
Review: Destroyer of Worlds Is an Expansive Addition to Alien The Roleplaying Game
When I was a kid, my brother and I would pretend to be Colonial Marines, fighting off hordes of Xenomorphs like in James Cameron’s Aliens. And despite Aliens’ huge influence […]
Dialogs: CHF Panel Explores Racist Corners of American History in What’s Next: Wealth, Property and Inequality
Reported by C.E. Archer-Helke In a Chicago Humanities Festival panel moderated by Chicago journalist Natalie Moore, economist William Darity, legal scholar Matthew L.M. Fletcher, and historian Rebecca K. Marchiel brought […]
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, A Story of Plague and Dissipation for Our Day
In 1842, Edgar Allan Poe published one of his most famous stories, which turns out to be a parable for 2020. The Masque of the Red Death concerns a prince […]
Review: As Far As the Eye Is Captivating, Challenging
For some, city builders and management games are a pastoral experience—no stress, carefree. Other people like to ramp up the difficulty and look at these games as a way to […]
Review: Little Big Workshop Is a Rare, Delightful Console Management Game
I love management games. There’s something incredibly satisfying with taking a small operation, and expanding it until it gets larger. Cut out the fat, increase efficiency– you know, that sort […]
Let’s Support Some Local Acts on Another Bandcamp Friday!
It’s another Bandcamp Friday! Bandcamp has been waiving their fees on the site on the very first Friday of the month for months now, giving the music community a much […]
Review: Delightfully Life-Affirming Dick Johnson Is Dead Offers Lessons on Facing Loss
With more than 50 credits to her name (according to IMDb), cinematographer Kirsten Johnson has made a career of observing the world around her and capturing it for us to […]
Review: Despite Some Clunky Moments, Once Upon a River Delivers a Beautifully Filmed Coming-of-Age Drama
On 2016’s “Margo,” Haroula Rose mournfully sings: “Your daddy brought you to the ways of the wild / Your mother she left when you reached a certain height” The song […]
Review: With Its Pretzel-like Logic, Time Travel Sci-Fi Drama 2067 Is Entertaining but Forgettable
As far as low-budget, high-concept science fiction films go (and I feel like we’ve been getting a great many of them over the last six months), the Australian production 2067 […]
Review: A Sanitized, if Musically Rich, Portrait of the Much-Beloved Performer in Herb Alpert Is…
As something of a specialist in documentaries about famous people, director John Scheinfeld (Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, The US vs John Lennon) has taken on one of his […]