Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Will Magnus Chase do for Norse mythology what Percy Jackson did for the classical Greek pantheon—make it extremely popular with kid readers again? Topher Bradfield, the children’s outreach coordinator ...

Saniya Ahmed writes about video games that ignite her love of gaming. She is involved in gaming not only as a writer but as an artist. Inspired by video games and anime, she creates cyborg characters ...

Jacob Bernander and Askur Ingvaldsson from The Viking Museum in Stockholm are joining us to break down some of the Viking and Norse mythology inspirations and history from God of War: Ragnarok. From ...

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Not long into Robert Eggers’ “The Northman,” a mad and mesmerizing song of Iceland and fire, the camera plunges down into darkness, as if it had suddenly been swallowed up by the Earth. It’s AD 895, ...

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