

The (As It Were) Cinematic Aspirations Of Virginia
There are games that tell a story and games that have a story, with the difference being starker the more you consider it; a difference...


On Slumdog
People thought the world was going to end on December 21st, 2012 but I contend that it actually ended much earlier on February 22nd 2009,...


Infinitely Wide, Centimeters Deep - A No Man's Sky Post-Mortem
The sky is bright purple, with green tinges near the horizon; I’ve been walking for an hour now and it’s just now starting to get dark....
Three Beers In, Twenty-One Old
The firs time I felt old, I was twenty-one years old. It happened at the counter of a bar in Melbourne’s north that’s quickly becoming...


George Herbert Mead: On Play
At the turn of the 20th Century, there was a trend in sociology towards macro-sociology - the analysis of societies and systems on a...


Riven: On Isolation
Riven: the Sequel to Myst holds a slot somewhere in my heart and mind for being one of those rare games to be devoid of human life. That...


On Meta-Narrative
Post Modernism has never had one concrete definition, as every academic definition gives an explanation of “a departure from modernism”...


Such Movement...
“This book really moved me” At this juncture, I am awfully sick of hearing the above sentence uttered when describing a quote, passage,...


What I Have To See/Hear/Be
We’ve never had so much good television before us, partly thanks to networks like HBO, AMC and now Netflix. No doubt many of you reading...


Tree Huggers
Melburnians talk to trees in an effort to get back to their roots... While the traditional show of appreciation for tree is usually a...