Bit Bash is back. After eschewing their main event for a series of pop-ups last year, Bit Bash has brought back their titular summer festival with an impressive showing of video and […]
Bit Bash at MSI is Everything We Hoped For (And More!)
Preview: VGA Gallery Brings Hong Kong Artists to Chicago for PLAY.GROUND II: Video Game Art from Hong Kong
In the US, we can be myopic about our place in the world sometimes. Much of the media we consume can seem to revolve around us and what’s happening here, or could […]
Polymorphism: Queer Encounters of Intimacy in Games Continues Through April at VGA Gallery
If love or sex comes up in a video game, it’s often the muscle-bound male protagonist bedding buxom women. Some games even have an accompanying minigame to put you in control of […]
Preview: Celebration for the Release of VGA Reader Issue 2 at Quimby’s This Weekend
Video games are art. I think I can say that authoritatively since great organizations like the Video Game Art Gallery go to lengths to approach these works in a scholarly way. This […]
Preview: Friday’s Logan Playtest Party 2018 Offers a Great Way to Get Into Chicago’s Games Scene
We in the Games & Tech section are advocates for games–whether that’s encouraging writers and readers to see games as art, explore across game genres or become part of a new […]
The Secret’s Out, Bit Bash’s Initiation was a Big Success
We had a sneaking suspicion that the Bit Bash party we weren’t supposed to tell you about was going to be a good one, and we were right. This clandestine meeting of […]
Game Review: Newt One is a Musical, Colorful Confection
It’s hard to find a video game that doesn’t depict violence in one way or another. While violent games are popular and have their place, it’s nice to see a recent trend […]
Video Games and Scholarly Pursuits with the VGA Reader
We at Third Coast Review have been dedicated to acknowledging that video games are more than just casual entertainment—that they are a legitimate form of art that are worthy of scholarly discussion […]
