(The Cartridge Lit blog.)
We haven’t had a serious video game villain as a candidate for president. Someone who stands up and says words of terror and fear and who request oaths of fealty. Who stands for nothing but pride and self-aggrandizement and who just might be doing the whole shebang as a publicity stunt?
Even if I somehow achieve fame in this lifetime (not a goal), it’ll only be a few generations before that evaporates as well. This causes many sleepless nights and depressed, gray days. I am not an optimist.
We would like to heartily congratulate K. Jane Childs for her winning chapbook, which we will publish chapbook in mid-2016. We would also like to congratulate our two runners-up: Jamison Crabtree and Lisa Ciccarello. Both of their chapbooks will be published in late 2016, or early 2017.
There’s little about Skies of Arcadia that is unique. It’s a story of plucky pirates fighting against an empire. Ho-hum. I’ve played that game before. It isn’t particularly well told, or odd enough, or easy and simple to play.
We’re now closed for applications. Thanks to the applicants for their interest! As we near 2016, we’re starting to think about what we could do better, and how much more we could get done, if we had more brains involved in the creation of this Cartridge Lit. As a two-person organization, we feel like we’ve accomplished […]
We think video games are literature, and so why shouldn't there be literature about video games? That's the question we're hoping to answer here. Read more.
