Endless Sand and Endless Baby Steps
We can't get enough of the world's most frustrating walking simulator.
Streams & Podcasts
Rob Chats Lore With Duncan Fyfe
Rob sits down with Duncan Fyfe to discuss his piece on the lore and world building of Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and the tension that can form between developers and fans.
HOA - Emanuel's Curse
404 Media's Emanuel Maiberg is back on the HOA to talk about becoming the neighborhood's frontline crusader against bedbugs.
Articles
Who Cares About the Lore?
The creation and imperfect preservation of The Elder Scrolls' intentional incoherence.
Little Black Boxes
Apple TV + Steam Deck + Switch + Switch 2 + PlayStation 5 + Xbox Series X = oh no. What have I done?
Voyager - Across the Unknown Explores Darker, Colder Space
Clips shows and cold equations.
Enclosing the Virtual Pitch
The consolidation of soccer video games, and the capture of a pastime.
Travel Nightmares
Patrick and Rob share stressful stories—one from the present, one from the past—of trying to make it back into the U.S.
Two Best Friends and a Naive Dream: Make a Cinematic Platformer
A fateful meeting at school and an evocative drawing would eventually lead two longtime friends to try something audacious. The result would be Planet of Lana.
Cairn's Beautiful Search for a Mountaineer's Purpose
A conversation with The Game Bakers about life's unanswerable questions, making the sublime Cairn, and crafting a video game with supplément d’âme.
Finding the Chicago Bears of F1
In which Patrick wonders whether it's time to get into high-speed racing, so he comes to Rob seeking advice in the only way he knows how.
Love Eternal Is Fine If You Never Experience Its Terrifying Story
In a time where games are aiming for the widest possible audience, Love Eternal designer Toby Alden explains why they're making games another way.
Edmund McMillen Is Still Nervous About Releasing a Video Game
McMillen has had about as critically and commercially successful a career as one could hope for. Yet insecurities come back with each release.
Winter Hubris
Rob and Patrick share stories of hunkering down, almost giving yourself frostbite, and believing you're capable of driving in a snowstorm—and being very wrong.
The Future of These Game Developers Rests on a Visa Application
A small indie group from New York, a mixture of creatives from China and the United States, need the U.S. government to believe they should stay here.
Bad Vibes
While it can often feel like times have never been darker, bravery in Minneapolis shows a way forward.
Nine Players, Ten Provinces, Three Territories
An entire country waits to "get 'em next year."
The New Chicago Bears Experience
The joy of not knowing how things would end.