𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐄 No. 6

Finally, a video game zine for those on the nice list. You better watch out. You better not cry! You better not pout, I'm telling you why... FUNLAND ZINE NO 06 - IS HERE!! 

Miss the playful design and discovery of magazines like EGM, Nintendo Power and Famitsu? Want to fling your eyes into pages of previews, reviews, profiles, essays and art about the wildest new game things? To you, I say: Welcome to FUNLAND. 

Instead of merely being an exercise in nostalgia or aesthetics, FUNLAND blends sensibilities of olde with coverage that better reflects our modern tone, scope and politics. A queering of GamePro (in short). A zine that seeks to explore the exciting fringes of games and adjacent culture.

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IN THIS ISSUE:

• PAOLO PEDERCINI confronts the Scrooge of tomorrow in FUTURE? NO THANKS! A science fiction where politics shapes the world more than technology. We discuss putting the flying car before horse, the Abundance movement and how many more years a Gen-Xer has to save the world.
• What does a holiday tradition look like in the shit posting era? Video artist ICESNORT has established a new festive ceremony with his 'smiser' series, a modern advent calendar where each new day brinks a Rankin/Bass monstrosity.
• Brothers ETHAN and SETH REDD find themselves busier than elves come Christmas. Why? For SANTACORPS of course! We speak about holiday frenzies, starting a studio and how a yuletide game jam can help perfect your craft. 
• What do you get for the lurker who has everything? We chat with Digital Tchotchkes about ELATION FOR THE WONDER BOX 6000, escaping rural life for the forums and how to properly adore your gizmos.
• We make cents with Charles J Pratt about NO QUARTER, the legacy of the New Arcade movement and where Raw Thrills fits into the academic deconstruction of play.
• Tired of all this Winter? Warm up in a world without one. We speak with Catmilk about GOSSAMER MATRIX, the romanticizing of security work and coming to terms with American gun culture.
• Plus the FIRST EVER FUNLAND GOTY EXTRAVAGANZA!!! We've gathered artists, actors, critics, authors and game makers to dish on their game of the year! Austin Walker! Caroline Cash! Grace Freud! Luke Savage! Michael DeForge and many, many more on what they've been playing the hardest.

Cover by Eric Kostiuk Williams. Funlad (our goblin mascot) designed by Olea Kim. FUNLAND logo by Rodrigo Bravo. FUNLAND is a proud part of the Superculture Network, a collective of critical gaming coverage such as Bullet Points Monthly, Heterotopias, the BAD END podcast and more!