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KHOLAT

So, fortunately for you, I won’t be doing the all-caps spelling of KHOLAT all article long. Just for the sake of reference, the game is officially KHOLAT not, as I will be spelling it, Kholat. Cool? Cool.

Kholat is a first person horror game that can’t properly be called a “survival”…

868-Hack, Uplink, Hacking, and You

(Hi! Sorry for the lateness of this piece, but I hope it’s worth it. Due to odd screenshot glitches in both games, these are fair-use-esque grabs from GIS; if you’d like them taken down, just contact me and I’ll be happy to.

Sunless Sea

I didn’t really know what I was going to write about Sunless Sea until I lost my second ship to a dumb occurrence close to home. And all of a sudden, I realized I’d write about frustration.

Why Ikaruga Matters As Art As Never Before

As a brief aside to start off, I think it’s only fair to tell you all that I’m no longer very good at Ikaruga.

There was probably a time where I was passable at Ikaruga, when I’d play at least an hour or two a day, training my…

Anatomy: Portrait of a Home Serial Killer

(Thanks to my friend, @jacquestristan for the suggestion of Anatomy and for the donation of the game itself. Truly an excellent suggestion.

And if you like the work here, please consider donating to my Patreon! It’s at…

The Work of Sport in the Age of Its Reproduction Under Gaming

(This piece was originally to be published in the now-defunct VICE Sports, and as such is a bit delayed in its timing. Future work along these lines will cover Overwatch, fighting game competition, and more. Thanks to VICE…