Author Archives: kunzelman

On the Death of Stuart Hall

Posted on 02/10/2014 by kunzelman

Stuart Hall is gone. There isn’t much for me to say. It is hard to speak of an absence felt so clearly that it becomes present — Stuart Hall’s death is less the loss of a person and more the … Continue reading →

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Released: On August 11, A Ship Sailed Into Port

Posted on 02/06/2014 by kunzelman

If you’re supporting my Patreon, you received access to this game yesterday. On August 11, A Ship Sailed Into Port is a simulation of what it is like to run an online magazine, or at least what I think that process … Continue reading →

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Flushed is Out!

Posted on 02/05/2014 by kunzelman

Flushed: A Toilet-gaming Ezine is out! I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, but there are so many amazing people involved that it literally cannot be anything but great. It is a statistical improbability! Go grab it for … Continue reading →

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Nick Mamatas on Harlan Ellison

Posted on 02/04/2014 by kunzelman

Nick Mamatas wrote an interesting short retrospective on Harlan Ellison’s work and recent output. There’s a strange pain to being a Harlan Ellison fan. On one hand, he’s undoubtedly one of the most courageous writers to come out of the … Continue reading →

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Game Criticism Time Machine: Corvus Elrod on Moblins

Posted on 02/03/2014 by kunzelman

Game Criticism Time Machine is a series of posts on this blog about, or linking to, videogame criticism pieces from more than a year ago.  Everything about the Moblin’s movement also speaks to their abilities… or rather, their lack thereof. … Continue reading →

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On Assassin’s Creed Part 1: The Fiction

Posted on 01/31/2014 by kunzelman

Everything in Assassin’s Creed begins with the assassin’s creed: “nothing is true, everything is permitted.” Not literally. We’re introduced to the world of Assassin’s Creed through an overheating and glitched-out Animus, a machine used to isolate and experience genetic memories. We play the … Continue reading →

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On 100% Complete

Posted on 01/30/2014 by kunzelman

I stumbled on this neat little game called 100% Complete today. The basic gist is that you’re a little cube thing who has to reach a door to complete the game. It is very easy to reach the door — when you … Continue reading →

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New Review in ImageText

Posted on 01/29/2014 by kunzelman

A little more than a year ago I did a review of Bart Beaty’s Comics Vs Art for ImageText, and after a little waiting, it is out! I’m really happy with the review, especially because I did it so long ago and … Continue reading →

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A Week in the Life of a Guard on a Rooftop in Assassin’s Creed

Posted on 01/28/2014 by kunzelman

Day One What a great job! I moved here from my home village three days ago, and all it took was bumping into one of the hundreds of guards roaming around the city in order to realize that there’s a … Continue reading →

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Vicesimus Knox Did An Objective Book Review in 1786

Posted on 01/27/2014 by kunzelman

I’m taking a class in Romantic concepts of technology this semester, and I read little thing by Vicesimus Knox about libraries and books and having a grand old time reading. Near the end of the piece he writes: I confess … Continue reading →

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