With a Terrible Fate aims to develop the highest quality theory on how video games tell stories. Often we study particular games, but at other times we theorize about games as a general storytelling medium. Check out that more general theory here.
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.
On the one-year anniversary of amiibo, With a Terrible Fate explores whether they have any unique value.
A defense of why video games might be better at telling stories than VR ever could be.
Read an analytic defense of why video games can no longer be ignored as art.
An explanation of why people who think replaying a game and rereading a book are the same thing are terribly confused.
An account of how I changed from a pre-medical program to video game analysis.