Haywire Magazine – Home of Contemplative Blockheads

Let's Play a Love Game: Love Across the Fourth Wall

Eric Cline breaks walls and wins hearts.

Live Your Own Way: What Running a Hostess Club in Yakuza 0 Can Teach Us About Life Under Capitalism

Harry Mackin goes a little crazy in the process.

Racing Line: Road Warrior

Miguel Penabella battles for first place.

Let's Play a Love Game: 'Slow Damage' and the Artist's Palette

Eric Cline considers the tools of creation.

Siobhan's Top 6 Games of 2022 (That May or May Not Have Come Out in 2022)

Siobhan Dent checks the rearview mirror for unexpectedly close videogames.

Let's Play a Love Game: 'Slow Damage' and the Intimacies of Violence

Eric Cline gets close and personal with violence.

Let's Play a Love Game: The Devil's in the DMs

Eric Cline slides into the DMs.

Let's Play a Love Game: Love is (Not) a Choice

Eric Cline makes the only choice available.

Let's Play a Love Game: Cycles of hunger

Eric Cline follows bread crumbs wherever they may lead.

Player select screen showing each of the four playable characters: a shadowy figure in yellow; a flame-haired djinn in red; a zombie in green; and a Frankenstein's monster in blue.

Eric Cline embraces the monster inside.

Link standing on a cliff, looking out over a forest

Harry Mackin sees the forest for the trees.

Twilight, with the faintest pink left in the sky from the sunset, against a backdrop of forest and mountain peak.

Wyeth Leslie has miles to go before he sleeps.

Front view of two cars in a competitive head-to-head positioning

Miguel Penabella ups every rim size to 24”.

Etsuji appearing surprised

Eric Cline ponders the limits of satire.

man with a revolver head walks into minimalist bar. 'time to score me some dick,' he says.

Eric Cline ponders the violence of the body.