YouTube video by Critical Theorycraft by Patrick Fiorilli

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

It’s time to tune in, turn on, and.. blipp out? Patrick Fiorilli explores the channels of BLIPPO+ and its blend of the televisual and interactive. It’s hypermediated, unabashedly queer, and remediates channel surfing and endless feeds all at once. Go see what’s around the bend.

YouTube video by Critical Theorycraft by Patrick Fiorilli

YouTube video by Pynchon Pals

I recently had to opportunity to try Gambling on a trip to Vegas. How was the "Fun Factor"? Gambling is a long running live service game that's recently seen a slate of updates in the form of smartph...

I recently had to opportunity to try Gambling on a trip to Vegas. How was the "Fun Factor"? Gambling is a long running live service game that's recently seen a slate of updates in the form of smartph...

It's a webring! And a website!

The Backrooms has something to say about capitalism. But what, exactly? Spoilers to follow. I had a good conversation with a friend the other day centered on what Wunderkind director Kane Parson's sm...

True to Bungie's promise, the end-game map makes the game click. It's taken us a few weeks, but my buddies and I finally earned our way into Marathon's end-game raid map, the Cryo Archive. Our first ...

True to Bungie's promise, the end-game map makes the game click. It's taken us a few weeks, but my buddies and I finally earned our way into Marathon's end-game raid map, the Cryo Archive. Our first ...

Does it matter when a game says something doesn't matter? This week in my "Video Games and Language" class, we read from Pippin Barr's The Stuff Games are Made Of (available open-access!). It's an ex...

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I have a habit of setting games down and restarting them. No game have I played less of longer than this. I came of age in what now appears like the nadir of the so-called computer role-playing game ...

You know what still hits? Rock Band. I turned 30 to find out why. 18 years ago, I woke up on Christmas morning to find Rock Band—like Guitar Hero before it, just a few years prior—under the tree. It ...

A podcast about finally reading Thomas Pynchon

Inspired by recent discussions on Remap Radio and across the internet, as well as by my own recent time spent playing games, I wanted toss around some thoughts about friendslop. "Friendslop" is a buz...

Inspired by recent discussions on Remap Radio and across the internet, as well as by my own recent time spent playing games, I wanted toss around some thoughts about friendslop. "Friendslop" is a buz...

Salutations from the other side of a not exactly planned hiatus! We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. Today, a dispatch from the far flung season of the witch and the werewolf. Octo...