Cerise Magazine

August 2007 Issue

Features

• From the Editors
• Craft Check: Custom Game Master's Screens
• Gaming in the Media: Much Ado about AO

Interviews

• Miriam Ruiz [Game developer]

Articles

• Gender & Live-Action Role Play: Introduction
  Author: Samara Hayley Steele

Samara kicks off her series looking at LARPing from a feminist perspective.

• Myth Busting: Gaming as Antisocial Behaviour
  Author: Andrea Rubenstein

Andrea takes down the myth that games are inherently antisocial events.

• Women will Love Stranglehold: A Hands-on at E3
  Author: Yvonna Lynn

Yvonna talks about her experiences playing Stranglehold at E3.

Gamer Stories

• Notes from the UnGamer
  by Jewel Faulkner
• 8 a.m. on Saturdays
  by Karen Healey
• I'm a Female Plant Shaman
  by Anna Holt

Reviews

• Jade Empire PC Special Edition
  by Cherie Thomason
• Retro Review: Prince of Persia
by Abby Wilson

Odds 'n Ends

• The Back Page

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Welcome to the Back Page! This is where we publish the odds and ends that our readers send in, from artwork and writing, to shout outs, thoughts on gaming, and whatever fun and silly things we can come up with. If you have something you want to show off to the rest of our readers, head over to our submissions page and fire off an e-mail to us!

“Crocodiles don’t play video games!!”

Robin Sevakis, known as Ra-chan on Iris’ forums created this comic with Cerise and our readership in mind. You can see more of her lovely artwork at her website and her deviantArt gallery.

Click here to see the full comic.

A Gamer’s Love Sonnet

Across the screen I see my lady fair,
With bright sparkling eyes, and strawberry lips,
And the scent of coconuts in her hair.
She has delicate fingers, curving hips,
Skin so soft it puts silk to shame. She moves
With grace in ev’rything. And when she speaks –
Ah, sometimes, my name! – her dulcet voice proves
More lovely, more pure than the sighs and creaks
Of any common symphony. My heart
Is snared in her laughing net, and has been
Since the day we met. When we are apart,
I cannot breathe until we meet again.

I run to her side, faster and faster…

My lady, my love, my Dungeon Master.

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