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Autumn Wright

(They/Them)
Brooklyn
As seen in: Medium, The New York Times, Yahoo Entertainment, The Verge, WIRED Magazine, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Flipboard, Polygon, GamesRadar+ and
Covers:  Video games, anime and animation, manga, apocalypse fiction in all forms, and sometimes books and music too.
Doesn't Cover: AI, Blockchain/Crypto/NFTs, VR, F2P, Gacha, Gambling, tabletop, studies
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Autumn Wright is a writer combining entertainment criticism, social commentary, and nature writing. They have contributed reviews and essays to The New York Times, Washington Post, WIRED, and elsewhere. Autumn is a columnist for Unwinnable Monthly, a member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle, and an alum of the McCormack Writing Center Winter Workshop. They live in Brooklyn.

Autumn is currently freelancing as a writer and copy editor and is looking for work.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the opening salvo of the fan-service culture war

Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the opening salvo of the fan-service culture war

A decade before Disney turned to slop, it settled for reheated garbage when kicking off a new Star Wars film …

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In Ruins

In Ruins

On Battlefield 6, destructible environments, and follies.

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How Chainsaw Man - The Movie draws on and transforms classic myth

How Chainsaw Man - The Movie draws on and transforms classic myth

The latest Chainsaw Man film provides plenty to chew on, but one under-discussed element is how it draws on c…

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Scarlet Offers Complicated Answers To Simple Questions

Scarlet Offers Complicated Answers To Simple Questions

While Scarlet is another visual stunner from Mamoru Hosoda, its attempts at answering big questions about mod…

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Knights of Guinevere's Pilot Is a Beautifully Animated Hate Letter to Disney

Knights of Guinevere's Pilot Is a Beautifully Animated Hate Letter to Disney

In its pilot, Knights of Guinevere sets up an intriguing mystery based on the premise that we could all stand…

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Kirby's new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge

Kirby's new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge

Kirby and the Forgotten Land Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World adds more challenging levels to t…

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A Dialogue with Austin Walker - Unwinnable

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By Autumn Wright
| Unwinnable Verified
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #195. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ——— Wide but shallow. ——— Austin Walker is a writer, game developer, and a prolific podcast host. In addition to his actual play podcast Friends at the Table, Star Wars podcast A More Civilized Age, and genre fiction podcast Shelved By Genre, Austin launched the videogames podcast Side Story in 2025.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the opening salvo of the fan-service culture war Original

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By Autumn Wright
| The A.V. Club Verified
Much of what charged Lucas’ Star Wars was contextual to its time. The prequel trilogy’s dissolution of the Republic spoke to a post-9/11 America, while Star Wars and its immediate sequels connected Flash Gordon to the Vietnam War. Director J.J. Abrams goes through it all again, but has no perspective outside of the franchise canon, letting his audience project whatever they want onto his repositioned action figures.
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How Chainsaw Man – The Movie Draws On And Transforms Classic Myth

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By Autumn Wright
| Endless Mode
Like Daphnis and Chloe, the story of Adonis was one of many myths from antiquity that became the inspiration for Renaissance art.
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