Capy Castaway: A Cozy, Dreamlike Love Letter to Toronto and Friendship
Capy Castaway is the Toronto-centric game that uses an oversized gerbil and a sarcastic, self-centred crow to teach us about friendship.
Still Keeping It Cozy: The Coziest Upcoming Games of 2026 and Beyond
Other than the crappy, ad-infused word game that I keep on my phone to occupy my brain on my commute (and which I will not promote here because of said ads), I havenât been playing too many video games lately and certainly not making ample use of the […]
Fatal Kisses, Leather Daddies, and Evil Tofu: Queer Coding in Video Games
This month I had a very serious article topic in mind, but everything in real life is so serious and difficult right now that I decided what was actually needed was something ridiculous. A friend of mine often goes to whatever is showing at the local discount cinema […]
A Slippery Slope from Cute to Evil in Cult of the Lamb
This Christmas I found myself sitting in my recliner watching my kid play Baldurâs Gate 3 on his new Steam Deck in the very boring, adult predicament of having asked for relatively practical gifts and now having no new toys to play with. I decided to remedy my […]
10 Things I liked in 2025
There were a lot of things I did not like in 2025. Here’s ten things I did, or at least ten things I haven’t written about at the Gutter yet. Gotta remember what we’re living for while we fight. Usually, I’d writes something about how these books, games, […]
This Game Kills Fascists
Spoilers for all Dragon Age, y’all. I have always believed the world would be a kinder place if more people played Dragon Age games. It’s true that BioWare’s high fantasy series hews to a formula common to all their RPGsâthoughtful writing, beautifully-acted companions representing competing ideologies, and above […]
The Cultural Gutter 
