𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐄 No. 3

ZZZt. CALLING ALL HUMANS. CALLING ALL HUMANS. THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM THE OUTER COSMOS:

FUNLAND NUMBER 03 HAS LANDED. I REPEAT. FUNLAND NUMBER 03 HAS LANDED.

Miss the playful design and sense of discovery from magazines like EGM, Nintendo Power and Famitsu? Want to fling your eyes into pages of previews, profiles, essays and art about the wildest new game things on the horizon? 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. In short: Queer GamePro.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• We do lunch with Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson, talking about their new game CONSUME ME, fad diets and other ways to sabotage your life through game design.
• We tune in with Claire L. Evans and JJ Stratford and turn on BLIPPO+, discussing cable access follies and how the best TV has always been for space aliens.
• We drop out with Maggie Mae Fish and visit AMY'S DEAD-END DREAMHOUSE, exploring this history of edutainment and what Pee-Wee's Playhouse still has to offer for hopeless millennials.
• For this month's FUNLAND Guide to Leaving the House, Twoey Gray cordially invites us to the world's largest TAMAGOTCHI WEDDING.
• Previews of SET YOURSELF ON FIRE, FUNI RACCOON GAME and HYPERBEAT!
• Plus reviews from Grace Benfell, Khee Hoon Chan, Astrid Rose and Graham Sigurdson!

Individual issues can be purchased right here on Itch. If you'd like to save a few bucks and pick up a couple perks, consider becoming a subscriber on Patreon!

Front cover by Princess Aggy. Back cover by Alex Degen. Funlad (our goblin mascot) 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, Heterotopias, the BAD END podcast and more!