What is Battlefield 2042?

Video games are places where we restage wars, either real or imagined. Battlefield 2042 is about an imaginary war in 21 years, one that hasn’t happened yet.

I’ve Gone to the Lighthouse

A chain of games where loss and the lighthouse connect.

That thing to make the pain go away Didn’t work

Maybe I’ve just been in the wrong mood lately, but the games which have this sweet meanness supposedly at their core just haven’t soothed any of the existential dread that they normally do.

Time Loops All Over Again

You can’t come out of a loop the same way you went in. At least you’d hope so.

We regret to inform you…

Sorry I couldn’t care less about whether theygave DOOM Guy tits. I was cryingon the doorframe because my granddad had to lend me 20 quid.

Sable (Demo): The Trouble with a Timeless Desert

My one wish for Sable was that it could escape the baggage of its aesthetic tradition. The demo makes me uncertain.

HiberWorld: in a world of short dreams

A social gaming platform, in the model and dreamstate of a world of dead social gaming platforms

A Hollowed Out Dream

Experiencing grief in a dream space.

a morbid dusk

reflections on designing for reflection in Pol Clarissou’s ‘orchids to dusk’

No Man’s Sky: Through A Screen, Dully

In Dick’s writing the idea of bleak, desolate planets were the horror that the people in his worlds were trying to escape from, now they are the sandboxes in which we play.