Niharika Ravia

But so long as we’ve all got Xbox Ones, good Wi-Fi, and a load of gaming snacks, we’d be all set to wait it out, First off we got ourselves a scoop on an as-yet unrevealed character in Overkill’s The Walking Dead —and you can read about that in our big preview of the game on p24! We also chatted with that game’s devs, and the chaps behind Undead Labs’ State Of Decay 2 , about just why we gamers have such undying love for the zombie genre. Enjoy, and keep a look out for next month’s issue, as OXM heads out to E3 to find out what Xbox releases we can look forward to in the coming year!

When we began brainstorming our cover, we knew that Emily Gosling’s feature on book design (p62) would include practical insights into the processes behind their creation – golden rules of grids, templates, typographical hierarchies and With this is in mind, we thought it would be fun to have a blank book printed on our magazine cover, with a second, clear acetate cover sheet that could be lifted back and forth to show the grids, rules and coverlines, emphasising the process. However, once Emily’s copy arrived, along with a wealth of beautiful images, we decided to change strategy. Sara De Bondt’s startlingly innovative design for The Body Decides was an obvious choice for the cover, and we experimented with typography and framing techniques to support, but not distract from, her amazing treatment.

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In “Fit to Print” (page 30), our fashion features editor Isabel B. Slone writes that “political news has replaced celebrity gossip as the mainstay of currentday conversation…. You’ve been fabricating the truth since you were six months old, according to Dr. Vasudevi Reddy, a researcher and psychology professor at the University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, England. While we may lament that we live in a post-truth era, Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler, authors of The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, argue that we’ve always been biologic ally hardwired to lie. , they tell writer Katherine Gougeon that our brain acts like a “press secretary, constantly putting the most noble spin on our choices and behaviours while keeping our conscious minds in the dark.