A national emergency; internet for the people

Weird-ass sci-fi; bloody hands; our dark present

Vaulting magma; 70mm in PDX; something completely unknown

Wizards; Satan; how to start an interstellar revolution 

Glimmering blobs; super ninjas; the Swedish mafia

A selection of work at The Believer, StarTrek.com, WIRED, Reactor, io9, The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, and more.

Erik Henriksen's journalism portfolio

Earlier this week, I interviewed Portland writer/professor/gamer Tom Bissell about his new book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. Bissell's book is absolutely fantastic, and a short version of my interview with him can be found here. Between…

"There has been a stigma about writing about this topic for people like me, who are, say, literary writers. I don't think it's really been a viable thing to admit about yourself publicly that you spend huge amounts of time shooting necromorphs."

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Tom Bissell and a new way of thinking about video games