Bullet Points Monthly
Bullet Points Monthly features long-form articles and podcasts that look to place games in a wider cultural context, examining their relationship to our greater world much in the same manner as other forms of art and entertainment.
- Created by Reid McCarter, Ed Smith, Yussef Cole, Astrid Anne Rose
- Located in Canada, United Kingdom, United States
- August 2016
- Free + Paid tiers
Recent posts
August 13, 2026
Handler to operant: "We're at the End of History. Everything that can go wrong, already has." The history of Zero Parades is a collage of the real world: the game takes place in Portofiro, an island state with characteristics of Cuba and Argentina, caught between the influence of the communist…
July 29, 2026
It takes less than 15 minutes for Zero Parades to announce that it’s a queer game. Opening her own file, protagonist Hershel Wilk reads that she has “unconfirmed homosexual tendencies.” The player is asked whether they’d like to confirm them or say they’re “a vicious rumour started by my extremely…
July 22, 2026
In one plot arc from The Americans , a 2013-18 TV show about married KGB spies deep undercover in the United States, Matthew Rhys’ character Philip Jennings has to romance a teenage girl whose father works for the CIA. He insinuates himself into her life, smokes weed with her and hangs out alone…