Mae is 20 years old. She just quit college and came back home in late autumn. She has depression. She’s also cat person, but that isn’t important.

Monday’s Screenwriters Showcase will feature student scripts from the MFA screenwriting program, but there’s more to the competition than winning, organizers said. Graduating students’ goal is to get their scripts read by industry professionals who have the power to give them their start in entertainment.

Many games try to scare, but few are actually tense since there’s no genuine threat in a virtual world. However, “Dark Souls III” is truly nerve-wracking.

Daily Bruin A&E is following the Bruin Animated Filmmakers, a new club on campus, as they create a short animated film. In this week’s installment: the club’s revised targets and modeling the main character, Zombie Mike, and his environment.

Watch a bullet fly by, and step out of the way.
“Superhot,” released Feb. 25, is a first-person shooter game in which time moves when the player does.

Daily Bruin A&E is following the Bruin Animated Filmmakers, a new club on campus, as they create a short animated film. In this week’s installment: an introduction to the club, the premise of their film and their storyboarding process.

Sand clogs up everything; it’s gritty and coarse.
“Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak” might just be the sandiest game ever. It’s a distant prequel to the decade-old “Homeworld” and “Homeworld 2,” and transplants the series from space to the vast expanse of the desert.

When I was 10, my parents took my copy of PlayStation’s “Metal Gear Solid” away because it was “too violent.” It’s true, and it’s also too melodramatic.

Shayna Warner used tape to hold a tripod rig together during her summer internship.
While working at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, she learned to over-prepare rather than under-prepare.

Max Dower had to choose between taking the bar exam and focusing on his social media-based business. He chose the latter.
Growing up, the alumnus was always drawing just for fun.