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2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Geeks!

A gift for every nerd on your list! Books! Video Games! D&D! A... basketball?

Nov 22

Black Friday Astrolabe Sale!

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Nov 24

Astrolabe Fiction: Youngblood

LOST 🏝️ meets Jurassic Park 🦖 fueled by the Dead Kennedys 🤘🏻

Nov 20

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Sea of Stars and the Jordan Peterson thing

Aug 28

Astrolabe 35: Is 2023 the best year in video game history? Or the worst?

Nov 1

Astrolabe 34: What Big Robots Teach Us About Being Human

Jul 12

Astrolabe 33: Everything New is Old Again

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Worker-owned websites are here to save games media, summer vacations, and pronoun meltdowns

Nov 7

Astrolabe 35: Is 2023 the best year in video game history? Or the worst?

Fuck capitalism. Oh, and handheld gaming rules.

Nov 1

VGHW Excerpt: How Kazuko Shibuya's survived the "end times" and changed pixel art forever

"Gamer Girls" author Mary Kenney explores the Shibuya's groundbreaking work, the end of the end times, and the creative freedom of technical limitations

Oct 6

VGHW Feature: And that's how you get “Shigeru Miyamoto once tried to make a Donkey Kong dating sim.”

Monster Kids author Daniel Dockery digs into the realities of writing video game history

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VGHW Feature: 13 Books for Japanese RPG fans

From Final Fantasy to NieR, Suikoden to Xenosaga, there's a great book for every kind of RPG lover

Oct 5

VGHW Feature: Retro eight-bit RPG storytelling, but make it super gay.

How this award-winning SFF writer is turned to retro video games for his next story

Oct 5

Fight, Magic, Items is a year old!

The history of Japanese RPGs is a year older, but my book's just getting started

Oct 5

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