Worth Reading: The World Is Now a Casino
This week, Patrick’s talking with journalist Jack Ryan about his excellent (but distressing) piece about casinos, crypto, and AI are junking up your favorite web sites.
Streams & Podcasts
Remap Battles For Supremacy in Super Battle Golf
No friends will be made in this cutthroat (and extremely) silly take on golf.
Remap Detours 2 - Exploding Trees
Welcome to Remap Detours, our once a *mumbles incoherently* show where we bring you behind the scenes to the banter that gets cut for time or happens before we're officially rolling tape.
Articles
Enclosing the Virtual Pitch
The consolidation of soccer video games, and the capture of a pastime.
This Week at Remap
The return of Remap Detours, some streaming golf, trying to survive in RE9, Worth Reading—and lots more!
Travel Nightmares
Patrick and Rob share stressful stories—one from the present, one from the past—of trying to make it back into the U.S.
Two Best Friends and a Naive Dream: Make a Cinematic Platformer
A fateful meeting at school and an evocative drawing would eventually lead two longtime friends to try something audacious. The result would be Planet of Lana.
Cairn's Beautiful Search for a Mountaineer's Purpose
A conversation with The Game Bakers about life's unanswerable questions, making the sublime Cairn, and crafting a video game with supplément d’âme.
Finding the Chicago Bears of F1
In which Patrick wonders whether it's time to get into high-speed racing, so he comes to Rob seeking advice in the only way he knows how.
Love Eternal Is Fine If You Never Experience Its Terrifying Story
In a time where games are aiming for the widest possible audience, Love Eternal designer Toby Alden explains why they're making games another way.
Edmund McMillen Is Still Nervous About Releasing a Video Game
McMillen has had about as critically and commercially successful a career as one could hope for. Yet insecurities come back with each release.
Winter Hubris
Rob and Patrick share stories of hunkering down, almost giving yourself frostbite, and believing you're capable of driving in a snowstorm—and being very wrong.
The Future of These Game Developers Rests on a Visa Application
A small indie group from New York, a mixture of creatives from China and the United States, need the U.S. government to believe they should stay here.
Bad Vibes
While it can often feel like times have never been darker, bravery in Minneapolis shows a way forward.
Nine Players, Ten Provinces, Three Territories
An entire country waits to "get 'em next year."
The New Chicago Bears Experience
The joy of not knowing how things would end.
Why Do We Do This to Ourselves?
Sports is a glimpse into the irrational and what it means to be human.
Remap Recommends, Volume XX
A journey in learning how to make reading a habit, judging other people's houses, and the polarizing comedy of Tim Robinson.