Wallace Truesdale - Mothership

Wallace Truesdale II is a critic and journalist with a love for games, a weakness against soft cookies, and a few bylines at outlets including AV Club Games, Unwinnable, Stop Caring, and more.

4 articles

A group of people gathered around in a living room with pizza and beers. Two of them are sitting on a couch, holding controllers and focused. The others are watching the game

Dear Mother

What rights should gamers have?

A somewhat serious and somewhat silly Gaming Bill of Rights

Amanda Tien, Chris Plante, Cind Swanson, Gita Jackson, Kate Cox, Lis Welch, Madisyn Parisi, Saoirse Stone, Sherry Toh, Susana Polo, Vincent Ward, Wallace Truesdale Aug 28, 2026

A person with long black hair wears a pair of over-ear headphones and black wire-rim glasses.

Advice

What's in the feminist games canon?

It's complicated! But here are some recs from our regular contributors

Amanda Tien, Cande Maldonado, Nico Deyo, Nicole Clark, Saoirse Stone, Wallace Truesdale Jul 31, 2026

An Indian woman wearing a red sari and a bindi, as well as gold jewelry, walks along a fenced sidewalk beside her son, who wears a t-shirt.

Feature

The games industry isn't taking care of its caretakers

We spoke with over a dozen devs who take care of children, aging parents, and sick family members

Wallace Truesdale Jul 16, 2026

Four player-character options are shown, all of them exactly the same except for their skin color

Opinion

Video games need to do better than treating skin like skins

Painting skin color as an inconsequential aspect of identity erases the unique ways Black bodies navigate the world

Wallace Truesdale Feb 26, 2026