EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Dynevor is continuing to build a diverse and robust upcoming slate as she is set to star the Amazon International series Dirty, an eight-episode series that will appear on Prime Video. Matt Charman created the show and will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer alongside Foz Allan. The show is set in […]

It should go without saying that a grassroots campaign organized by gamers entering the labyrinthine processes of parliamentary politics is pretty damned daunting, but that’s just what has been happening with the Stop Killing Games movement, which as we’ve been covering for a while now is attempting to limit companies from making purchased games completely […]

Marathon: The Compiler boss inside a small room bathed in a red glow.

For years, a persistent (and mostly unserious) theory has pulsed through the Cosmere fandom: Hoid — the cosmic wanderer who appears across Brandon Sanderson’s novels — is actually Sanderson himself. Not metaphorically, but literally, a hidden metatextual “self-insert” presence inside his own fiction. It sounds far out, but if Stephen King could write himself into the Dark Tower, surely someone as crafty and self-aware as Sanderson could (and would?) do the same.

It was the right time to write a novel. I had always been mesmerized by horror and mystery, ever since I was a child. After writing All Your Base Are Belong to Us, my non-fiction history of games, I was continually inspired by the industry’s best, darkest narratives. I was also thinking about “My Life Among the Serial Killers,” the book Dr. Helen Morrison and I wrote, which became a worldwide bestseller. And I began to study horror and mystery seriously after immersing myself in games like Alan Wake and L.A. Noire.

All you need is Discord and a bit of luck.