*This post by Julian Bleecker raises the question: can't you do "design fiction" about fully-functioning objects in the diegesis that are malevolent and make things worse? Of course you can, because ...

Did you ever play The Getaway on PlayStation 2? Despite the Cockney gangster protagonist controlling like a fridge, it blew me away at the time. To my dumb teenage brain, it seemed so realistic. Of ...

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth may have caught flak for toying too much with its multiverse and inflating its runtime, sure, but it nailed a great fixture in the Final Fantasy tradition: the diegetic song.

With a final pull of the trigger, space engineer Isaac Clarke severs the Necromorph's last limb, and it slumps out of life. Clarke barely survived his latest encounter with a cabal of zombie-like ...

*Look at the way ol' Walt here is deftly mixing Jules Verne, his own movies, ads for his urban amusement parks, model-making, rocketships, American military power, diegetic prototypes, multimedia ...

Music plays a pivotal role in almost everything we watch. Whether it’s in the form of carefully curated pop tracks, throwback jams, or original scores, music has the power to shape narrative ...