Cerise Magazine

October 2007 Issue

Features

• From the Editors
• Craft Check: Etched Glass Candle Holders
• Gaming in the Media: Gaming Blogs to Watch
• Market to Me: Race and gender in survival horror games

Interviews

• Blogger Interview: The Bloggers of Girl in the Machine

Articles

• Gender & Live-Action Role Play: Into the Tavern
  Author: Samara Hayley Steele

Samara continues her series on gender and LARP.

• Moving Gaming Forward: Having Meaningful Conversations about Social Issues
  Author: Latoya Peterson

Latoya talks about the failure to communicate between racial activists and gamers.

• Fatal Frame: Feminizing the Final Girl
  Author: Jenni Lada

Jenni discusses the ways in which the Fatal Frame series subverts the 'final girl' stereotype in survival horror.

• Shotgun vs. Skirt: Gender in Resident Evil 4
  Author: Diego Luna

Diego critically examines gender representation in Capcom's Resident Evil 4.

Gamer Stories

• Not my braaaaaainnns!
  by Olivia Luna
• Horrors, Together
  by Natalie Hill
• What’s so scary about a board game?
  by Andrea Rubenstein

Reviews

• Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress
  by Robyn Fleming
• Resident Evil 4
  by Bonnie Moxnes
• Bioshock
  by Bonnie Moxnes
• Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
  by Olivia Luna
• Retro Review: BurgerTime
  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!

Shout Outs!

A big shout out to Robin Sevakis from all the editors here at Cerise: Thanks again for yet another excellent cover!

Reader Costumes

For this month’s issue, the editors asked readers to send in pictures of themselves dressed as characters from their games, whether they be video, tabletop or LARP. Here are the photos that we received!

Samara as Yuffie from Final Fantasy VII	Eliza as chaos	Eliza and friend as Miyo and Mayu of Fatal Frame II
KC as Alice from American McGee	Robyn and friends as their character from MUD Magrathea
One of Samara’s LARP characters		Olivia with her sister and friend as superheroes from the DCU
Go here to see the rest of the costumes!

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This month’s LOLGAMERS highlight

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