Endless Dread: Haunted Hayride
In keeping with Endless Thread tradition, Ben and Amory are celebrating spooky season with another installment of "Endless Dread." This time, we're bringing you along on both an actual haunted hayride...
31 Okt 202538min
Episodes we love: Artist Known
New to Endless Thread? Wooooo! We're revisiting some favorites from our archives to welcome you. First up: The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic, spooky sci-fi/f...
28 Okt 202546min
Hidden Levels Ep. 6: Segagaga
The final episode of Hidden Levels explores the story of SEGA developer Tez Okano and the bizarre, meta-game he created: Segagaga. Okano joined SEGA in 1992, witnessing firsthand the company's tumult...
24 Okt 202540min
Hidden Levels Ep. 5: Press B to Touch Grass
Video games are arguably the antithesis of nature; highly constructed worlds, synthetic, inorganic. If you grew up gaming, you may recall grown-ups telling you to shut down the console, go outside, an...
22 Okt 202541min
Hidden Levels: Surgical Precision (Side Quest)
Dr. James "Butch" Rosser was a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery in the 1990s. When he credited his surgical skills to video games, people dismissed him. The prevailing narrative was that kids who...
21 Okt 202524min
Hidden Levels Ep. 4: Machinima
Machinima — a portmanteau of “machine” and “cinema” — refers to movies filmed inside video games. The art form had a renaissance in the 1990s, and many thought it had a future in Hollywood. Among the ...
18 Okt 202545min
Hidden Levels: Choose Your Player (Side Quest)
Today, Stef Sanjati is a creator on YouTube with over half a million subscribers. Her content mostly focuses on her two greatest loves — makeup and gaming — often combining the two with her otherworld...
17 Okt 202531min
Hidden Levels Ep. 3: This Game Wants YOU
For decades, the U.S. Army has been on edge about recruitment, hitting its goals for a few years, only to miss them again. As part of their strategy to combat recruiting concerns, the Army has turned ...
14 Okt 202544min
