●●●●○ After serving as producer for the horror film come superhero deconstruction Brightburn (2019), it comes as no surprise that director James Gunn, best known for the Guardians of the Galaxy films (2014-) would turn his attention to a slightly … Continue reading The Suicide Squad // Review
Illustration by Meghan Flood. Originally published in print March 2021. Goodbyes are tough. Sometimes it’s a person you love traveling across the world, other times it’s the finale of your favourite TV show. Sometimes though, it’s your university magazine. After … Continue reading How to End a Game
Originally published in print February 2021. The town is a space so common in both our lives and video games. As such, it may sound strange for me to suggest examining what the portrayals of towns in video games actually … Continue reading Social Constructs How do we see towns and cities in games?
Originally published in print December 2020. Let’s face it, this year could have been better in almost every conceivable way, with one exception: video games! Casting aside the additional free time many consumers have had as a result of the … Continue reading TN2’s Game Awards 2020
Originally published in the Summer Issue 2020. Recently I was playing a game called A Fold Apart. It is a romance game, but what was striking to me about the game was its use of gender. Choosing one’s gender … Continue reading When does gender in a video game actually matter?
●●●○○ Violence is an action that comes up more frequently than almost any, bar walking, in video games, from Space Invaders to Doom. This is by no means a moralizing point I wish to make. It makes sense, since stories … Continue reading Carrion // REVIEW
●●●●○ For the uninitiated, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is a reboot of a 1980s cartoon about a girl raised from childhood to fight for the Horde (a militaristic empire), who rebels against it after discovering an Excalibur-esque magic … Continue reading She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Season 5 // Review
It’s always hard to admit when you’ve been a fool. During the production of TN2 issue 4 I sat down with two friends to take a scientifically flawed test. The two tasters were Ursula Dale and Liana Parachaki. Ursula admitted … Continue reading Do you know your coffee? Originally published in print March 2020.
It’s something of a futile effort to crown one game as the definitive best of the past decade. We at TN2 Magazine are choosing to take a different route with this idea. Games mean many different things to different people. … Continue reading Games of the Teens Originally Published in Print February 2020
Many of my generation went through the most significant developmental phase of our lives over the last decade, and many of us were influenced by cinema and the stories it showed to us. Maybe we fell in love (I did, … Continue reading Formative Films of the Decade Originally Published in Print February 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019) has been divisive to say the least: lauded by many critics and punters, but equally loved by many that I have spoken to. In an interview with the BBC’s Simon Mayo, … Continue reading How Meta Narrative Can Ruin a Film: A Star Wars Story
“All the computer games that were available at the time were of the violent type – war games and space invader types. There were no games that everyone could enjoy” – Toru Iwatani (Lead Designer of Pacman) In 1988 Nintendo … Continue reading Here Come the Gamerz Originally Published in Print November 2019