Author: Alan Williamson

One with Nature – our new issue is out now!

Our new issue is Nature, and it’s out now! “One with nature”: the Dirty Dozen of Mass Effect, a virtual odyssey through Enslaved, the civilians of Command and Conquer, going beyond Baldur’s Gate, and the man / machine cyborg divide

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A Short Summer Update

Hello, lovely readers! As you may know, we take a break from working on Five out of Ten in June. We’re currently working on Issue 14, Nature, which will be released at the end of July, and have also started

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Love, Dad

Editor’s Note: Matt Duhamel contributed ‘Love, Dad’ to the latest issue of Five out of Ten, Future. Matt’s father passed away a few weeks ago, and he asked if we would publish the essay on our website so he could share these memories

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The Patreon Power Pack

Try before you back! Five out of Ten is now funded by Patreon: backing us is the best way to build a sustainable future for our magazine, contributors, artists and editors. If we reach our milestone goals, we’ll be able

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Editor’s Note: Futures

Long story short: Five out of Ten is moving to Patreon. Please help us create a sustainable future for our magazine and secure a home for outstanding independent videogame writing. Making a magazine is difficult. Making a digital, commercial magazine in the age of unlimited

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Five out of Ten is now on Patreon – help us create a sustainable future

Five out of Ten is now on Patreon! We want to change the way we make this magazine forever, by asking readers to support us rather than buying each issue. Our goal is to build a long-term sustainable future for the

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Write for Five out of Ten

Join us. Five out of Ten publishes the best independent games writing in the world. We offer our writers a blank canvas: we want your essays, experiences, hopes and dreams. We are written by everyone, for anyone. We’ll never be

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The Future

We are delighted to announce that our new Managing Editor is Lindsey Joyce. Lindsey joins us from our friends at Haywire Magazine, where she is the Managing Editor: she also contributes to Critical Distance and was Director of the National

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We’re hiring a new Managing Editor

We are hiring a new Managing Editor. This is a paid, part-time, permanent position. We are looking for a talented editor with a commitment to our values. The perfect candidate will have editorial experience from a publication such as a

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Introducing the Five out of Ten art print store

We always said that if we printed Five out of Ten, we’d do it right. So we’ve teamed up with Society6 to offer some beautiful art prints that have graced our covers over our first two years. These are not

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