Five out of Ten is a new kind of magazine: one that celebrates, reflects upon and enriches gaming culture. Maybe you’ve played videogames your whole life, or maybe you’re just curious about the medium. This magazine isn’t just for ‘gamers’: it is for everyone.
We believe that videogame criticism is worthwhile and good writing is worth paying for. We split all the profits between the five authors in each issue. There’s no advertising or corporate sponsorship, no publishing company, no ‘news’ or reviews: just great feature writing that’s fresh, bold and different. We’re here to improve and expand the cultural conversation concerning videogames and the wider world.
Want to write for us? Check out our Contribution page for more details.
Contributors
Alan Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Five out of Ten and co-founder of Split Screen. Alan was technology editor at Edinburgh University’s The Student, has contributed to the New Statesman and runs Critical Distance’s monthly Blogs of the Round Table. Originally from Northern Ireland, he now lives in Oxford. He used to design magazines in Microsoft Word just for himself, so this is a bit of a step up for him.
Craig Wilson is responsible for at least half of the design of Five out of Ten, especially the good looking bits. He is the other co-founder of Split Screen and was an award-winning editor at The Student. He also likes creating insightful infographics and recording his own music.
Marko Jung is Five out of Ten‘s website manager and 9th Dan UNIX ninja. Whenever he’s not working on the site infrastructure or adding nifty new features, you might find him rowing around Oxford or scuba diving the seven seas (but never the other way around).
Bill Coberly is a writer, transcriber and troublemaker based in Savannah, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and a particularly troublesome puppy. He is the founder of The Ontological Geek, writes for Nightmare Mode and has contributed to Gamechurch and Ctrl+Alt+Defeat.
Denis Farr is a media critic living in Chicago. With a penchant for games, theater, queer issues, and how they all intersect, he has written for GayGamer, The Border House, Gamers With Jobs, and Unwinnable. His drag persona is Leeloo Dallas Multidrag.
Brendan Keogh is a videogame critic and academic from Melbourne, Australia. He is completing a PhD at RMIT university, and writes regularly for publications such as Edge, Hyper, and Unwinnable.
Cameron Kunzelman is a nonhuman. He tweets @ckunzelman, blogs at This Cage is Worms and makes games at heylookatmygames.com.
Rick Lane is a freelance journalist and Games Editor for Custom PC magazine, living in Edinburgh. He writes for publications such as PC Gamer, IGN, The Escapist, and many more. His work covers gaming topics from sword fighting to the Sublime.
Kris Ligman curates ‘This Week in Videogame Blogging’ for Critical Distance, is a community advocate for Gamasutra, and has written for Gameranx and Ctrl+Alt+Defeat..
Robbie Pickles is a History and Politics graduate working at the University of Oxford whose pop culture references dry up around 1997. A self-styled ‘journalist’, his previous works include a comment on the Guardian website and a terse quote in his high school magazine.
Lana Polansky is a videogame critic and essayist living in Montreal, Canada. She writes bi-monthly for Bit Creature and has been published in Kill Screen, Gameranx, Medium Difficulty, The Wall Street Journal Speakeasy and Billboard. She’ll have her Twine game up eventually.
Marc Price is Games Editor at VGRevolution and lives in Palm Harbor, Florida. He has a four-year-old daughter who cheats when he plays board games with her and acts as his stand-in for magazine profile pictures.
Jordan Erica Webber is a freelancer who writes for Gameranx and Play, and once even got a story in the Guardian. She lives with her partner near the University of Warwick, where she studied Philosophy and Psychology. She also blogs about disability and gender at Godiva Gamers.
Katie Williams is a games journalist, critic, and graduate living in Melbourne, Australia. She is the current director of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival and writes for Hyper, PC PowerPlay, IGN and formerly Gamespy.
