Explore all of With a Terrible Fate’s articles analyzing the stories of video games, as well as the philosophy of video-game storytelling.
Featured Author Nathan Randall explores games that turn an often annoying side effect into a work of art.
I argue that Xenoblade Chronicles X falls short where Xenoblade Chronicles succeeded.
Featured Author Laila Carter uses media theory to defend the meaningful sexuality of Bayonetta.
Featured Author Richard Nguyen discusses what works and what doesn't in video game morality.
How philosophy led me to change my mind about the Final Fantasy VII remake.
Neuroscientist Matt McGill argues that the science fiction of SOMA may not be so fictional.
Featured Author Laila Carter analyzes the relations between comics and video games as storytelling media.
Watch a speech I delivered at Harvard this January on the social value of video games.
The science of quantum mechanics will give you a new reason to fall in love with BioShock Infinite.
I return to Nier to explore the question of whether great games need to have fun worlds.