Killing Lara Croft
Our 20-year obsession with the Tomb Raider’s demise
death
Fragments of Him multiplies its tragedy to reflect how death affects us all
This is a complete coincidence, but a year ago—to this exact day—I reached into my gut to pull out feelings I’d forced to exist down there for a long time. Today, I’m doing the same, as I wrote about Fragments of Him then, and I’m doing the same now. It’s a first-person drama that explores how a guy
Memory Burn wants you to imagine digital death. That’s real enough.
The Sims as a series of macabre social experiments.
A videogame that captures a son’s final moments with his dying father
Stephen Clark on making a game about his father’s final months battling ALS.
The deformed, lonely bodies of Kyttenjanae’s colorful worlds
Kyttenjanae depicts loneliness and sickness in an unusual way. It’s almost always as a rainbow-flavored mix of gross-out and grace. The signature animated art that she shares on her Tumblr page is recognizable for the eyeless humanoids that ebb and flow as if made of pink and polychromatic liquids.