𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐄 No. 4

THE HALLOWEEN FUNLAND SPOOKTACULAR HATH RISEN FROM THE CRYPT!!

Thrills! Chills! Evil computers! Eldritch horrors! Ghouls! Goblins! Even penguins! Folks if this one doesn't make your hair stand on end you may already be a corpse.



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 TERRIFYING HALLOWEEN SPECIAL:

• We're painting the whole damn world red. Ahead of Nightdive's REFRESHED SUPPLY, we've summoned legendary BLOOD lead artist Kevin Kilstrom to talk monster movies, model making and Monolith memories.
• We descend into the beak of madness with UMURANGI GENERATION creator Naphtali Faulkner to squawk about his upcoming eldritch chiller PENGUIN COLONY and how to reimagine Lovecraft's colonial legacy without making revisionisms of his sins. We also talk about the Happy Feet movies.
• We survive midnite madness with PUPPET COMBO's Ben Cocuzza, hollering about adapting NIGHT SHIFT into a film, the tapes that caught his attention and what no budget nightmares give the world.
• Chantal Ryan exposes us to DARKWEBSTREAMER, talking about the gothic qualities of the net and what becomes of its tales when its darkness spills over.
• We grow an uneasy feeling (and a couple surprise organs) with Yames, talking about PLASTIC SPOUSE INTERROGATION and how body horror finds untold grotesqueries in a world of microplastics.
• We let the cards decide with FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE's Nick Lives, finding the terrors of the family computer room.
• For this month's FUNLAND Guide to Leaving HAUNTING the House, we conduct our first ever paranormal investigation! Does this local punk legend have a POSSESSED PINBALL MACHINE??!
• Some behind the scenes looks at PLASTIBOO's spectacular, hand-crafted cover!
• Plus reviews from Grace Benfell, Khee Hoon Chan, Davis Cox, Astrid Rose, Graham Sigurdson and Joey Wawzonek!

Cover by Plastiboo. 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!