$80 for a Game? In This Economy?!
Gamers refused to pay ten extra bucks for complete games—so the industry handed them loot boxes, battle passes, and a smiling mascot whispering, “Insert Cash.”
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.
Last of Us Part I: Not a Cash Grab
There are reasons to be upset about remakes and upgrades being overpriced, none of which rise to the level of a cash grab. I wouldn’t even qualify The Last of Us Part I as an overpriced remake…yet.