cropped-AFTERMATH_Logo_Wordmark_Horizontal_Black.jpg

bigwhitelogo

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

MORE

Sidebar 1

Sidebar 2

<p>For a limited time, <strong>new subscribers to our Reader tier get their first month for only $1!</strong> Toggle to our monthly subscriptions to select this discount. Offer ends November 29.</p>


 Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture

Aftermath

It's our birthday!

pexels-photo-7957752

bdaysale

Birthday Sale

Buy Aftermath Merch!

merchsmall

Merch

<p>Luke Plunkett is a co-founder of the website Aftermath.</p>


TheSix

Luke Plunkett

hilde

Movies

RIP Greg Hildebrandt

Nathan

Nathan Grayson

Foundry_ChiefVsElite

Video Games

Let Halo End

<div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Mitu Khandaker is a game designer, engineer, scholar, and entrepreneur. She is an Associate Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center, where she teaches game design and development. She was also CEO and co-founder at Glow Up Games, a game studio centering diverse audiences and stories about Black and brown joy. She holds a PhD in designing games for immersive interfaces such as VR and AR and has a background in computer engineering. She was previously on the founding team at Spirit AI, an AI tools company, and launched a location-based games startup. She also worked in the indie game space on titles such as the social simulation game </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Redshirt</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">. She has received several international accolades, including a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2013 and the Creative English Trailblazer Award in 2014. Mitu has served on the advisory committee for the Advocacy Track at the Game Developers&#8217; Conference since 2014. She lives with her husband and her toddler in New York City.</span></p>
</div>
<div class="yj6qo ajU"></div>


mitu khandaker

Mitu Khandaker

Darth Plagueis from Star Wars show "The Acolyte" lurks in a cave

plag

The Acolyte And The Unseen Star Wars Fan

The-Acolyte-Banner

It’s A Shame Nobody Can Just Talk About How Bad The Acolyte Is

xwingtop

Blog

X-Wing Is Video Gaming’s Greek Fire

<p>Hi! We&#8217;re the writers, and owners, of this website.</p>


cropped-bigam.png

Aftermath Staff

2023 Game Of The Year Deathmatch: Star Wars: Jedi Survivor vs Cities: Skylines II

star wars