‘Memento’ Is the Movie of the Attention Economy
We are afraid of time, and so like Leonard in Memento, we kill it, compulsively and indiscriminately.
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Moving Pixels Podcast: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection in ‘Soma’
Soma explores human identity and human consciousness through its slow burn sci fi horror.
‘A Machine for Pigs’ and the Failure of Psychological Horror
When a game removes a physical danger, its psychological danger has to be even more effective than before. If not, all horror is lost.
‘The Dark Descent’ and the Limits of Psychological Horror
Amnesia: The Dark Descent experiments with the limits of psychological horror, but it can't find a way around them.
The Moving Pixels Podcast Finally Gets ‘Amnesia’
Just in time for Halloween, the Moving Pixels Podcast revisits the 2010 cult horror game Amnesia.
Measuring Success: The Unsatisfying Notion of “Good Endings” and “Bad Endings”
Sometimes stories need to end badly in order to be really good.
