Grand Theft Hamlet is a documentary that follows two out-of-work actors, struggling during UK covid lockdowns, trying to stage a production of Hamlet in Rockstar’s online game. It tells
It has been another exceedingly stupid week on planet Earth, the culmination of several nearly-as-stupid weeks before it. One of the most eye-catching jewels in this trash crown: Elon Musk,
Welcome back to another instalment of What I Do, Aftermath's semi-regular look at just what it is, exactly, that individuals do for a living in the video game
Depending on where you’re standing, the video game industry is in a state of caterpillar-like transformation into something new or a full-on crisis. Funding is scarce. Companies are rife
Nintendo is perhaps just days from announcing a new video game console, and that has understandably got a lot of people excited.
For a while now--but it feels like things
As wildfires rage across southern California, displacing thousands and killing 24 as of this publishing, the state draws on the labor of nearly 1,000 incarcerated firefighters to help quell
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which as we all know is not Christmas, but that which immediately follows it: Awesome Games Done Quick week. The annual
In the past handful of years, the video game industry has attempted to reckon with its history of workplace abuse, both in the form of crunch and managerial misconduct. Big
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a United States government agency tasked with ensuring that people are treated fairly by banks and financial institutions, proposed a new rule that targets,
This morning, thanks to the folks at RockPaperShotgun, I checked out the Steam demo for Locator, which calls itself a “Geoguessr-inspired detective game set on an alien planet.” I’m
Balatro and I had come to an agreement. I was only allowed to interact with it under certain conditions. I was almost free of its grasp again when I hit
