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MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Albums of May 2021

MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Albums of May 2021

Lockdowns are slowly easing, the heatwave is getting closer, and May fully delivered with an abundance of heavy releases.

The Best Metal of 2018

The Best Metal of 2018

Amidst all the global socio-political unrest and the personal trials of 2018, metal has had a noticeably strong and positive year.

Portal’s Carnage Continues with ‘ION’

Portal’s Carnage Continues with ‘ION’

Australian extreme experimental alchemists Portal pursue a different approach to their devastating blend of death metal brutality.

‘Hardcore Henry’ Tells Gamers Sorry, There Is No Princess

‘Hardcore Henry’ Tells Gamers Sorry, There Is No Princess

Hardcore Henry questions gamers' instinctual need to fulfill a particular role within the context of a presumed masculine identity.

Games Will Eat Themselves

Where Did All the (Action Figure) Girls Go?

Some Worlds Are Best Seen From Outside Your Own Eyes

Some Worlds Are Best Seen From Outside Your Own Eyes

I don't have a problem if you want to play Grand Theft Auto from a first person perspective. Knock yourself out. But I won't be doing so anytime soon.

To Build a World or to Tell a Story?

Jonathan Coulton: Artificial Heart

In Some Games, It’s the Pattern, Not the Plot, That Makes Them Beautiful

Defining Our Relationship to the Software: Jonas Kyratzes’s ‘Alphaland’

Chell’s Digital Birth Certificate