The Year Gaming Killed The Default Male Hero
Three major 2025 sequels did what the industry said would fail: they removed the default male protagonist and fully committed to a woman lead. The result wasn’t controversy—it was better games, and a quiet collapse of one of gaming’s oldest excuses.
9 Things You’ll Definitely Get Before GTA 6 Finally Arrives
GTA 6 got pushed back to November, so we took a look around the apocalypse and made a list. X. Nihilo thinks he’ll see all nine before the loading screen finishes.
GTA VI: A Repetitive Scapegoat
Every time a new GTA drops, politicians dust off the same speeches and parents rediscover their favorite scapegoat. This piece traces the franchise's long history of manufactured outrage and makes the case that the real controversy isn't in the game, it's in what we refuse to look at when we're pointing at it.