This article was originally published on Kill Screen, October 2016. Since the site is no longer online, I'm re-publishing the article...

Animals in video games are usually nothing but robots in skins and furs. They’re utterly predictable and mechanical, even those that are...

Video games are made by humans, for humans. As a result, they deal with very human concerns. This is so self-obvious that saying it out...

I took a lot of screenshots of dark places while I was hunting for visual echoes of Caspar David Friedrich and Zdzisław Beksiński in...