Interview

A conversation with the woman who named a song after us, kind of

A conversation with Miriam Bellard, the co-creator of Seduce Me

What’s inside this box?

When does the challenge of rules guide rather than impose in games as well as music? We talk to Will Wiesenfeld, aka experimental musician Baths, about the parallels between casual immersion in music and games, the results of demanding diversity in Mass Effect, and how to not break the “ghost rules.

Why do videogames value failure more than we do? We talk to philosopher and queer theorist Jack Halberstam about financial failure, the queerness of computer-generated films, and where videogames have yet to change.