Jaesa Evermore

Jaesa Evermore is a games and pop-culture journalist whose work centers on the intersection of video games, tabletop play, and fan communities. She covers gaming and fan culture for Temple of Geek and for First Comics News, with a beat that runs from convention floors and cosplay meetups to trading card game announcements and narrative-driven video games. Her coverage is distinguished by close attention to the communities around games - cosplayers, panelists, and showcase organizers - as much as to the titles themselves.

Cosplay and Convention Coverage

Convention reporting and cosplay coverage sit at the core of Evermore’s work for Temple of Geek. Her archive includes photo-driven pieces from LVL UP Expo, such as the LVL UP Expo ’24 Cosplay Gallery and LVL UP Expo ’26 Cosplay Gallery, where she spotlights individual costumes, themed groups, and the overall atmosphere of the show floor. She also writes about specific meetup programming, including a “The Legend of Zelda” cosplay meetup hosted by Temple of Geek at LVL UP Expo, treating the gathering as both an event recap and a celebration of franchise fandom.

Her convention beat extends beyond LVL UP Expo to large publisher activations and cosplay events at major shows.

In coverage of Wizards of the Coast at San Diego Comic-Con, she focuses on how the publisher “takes over” the convention with installations, gameplay spaces, and themed experiences, giving readers a sense of the footprint games have within broader pop-culture events. Pieces such as the Marvel Rivals cosplay meetup at New York Comic Con highlight organized cosplay gatherings, documenting how specific game and comics properties bring costumers together and how those meetups are structured.

Earlier work on Blizzard-focused conventions, including a feature celebrating Blizzard cosplay through the years around the return of BlizzCon, shows her tendency to trace a visual history of costume design and fan craftsmanship rather than just summarizing news from the show.

Across these stories, Evermore’s distinguishing approach is to treat conventions as living ecosystems. She writes in formats that blend brief contextual framing with galleries and focused descriptions, making the fan presence - the cosplayers, hosts, and meetups - the primary subject, while still anchoring each piece in the relevant games and universes.

Streaming Events and Showcase Coverage

Beyond physical conventions, Evermore covers streaming events and digital showcases that sit at the intersection of games and genre entertainment. Her Temple of Geek feature on Netflix’s Geeked Week frames the event as explosive, breaking down key game-related and genre announcements while keeping the tone accessible for fans following along from home. She has also written about indie games unveiled around Summer Game Fest, highlighting standouts that she immediately added to her wishlist and organizing them by theme and appeal rather than platform alone.

In this part of her beat, Evermore favors list-style and highlight formats over traditional reviews. She curates selections from crowded showcase lineups and focuses on why particular titles matter: distinctive art directions, inclusive casting, cozy or high-fantasy aesthetics, and interesting mechanics.

Her coverage shifts easily between streaming events and in-person activations, maintaining the same emphasis on what will excite players and viewers rather than only cataloguing announcements.

Tabletop, Trading Card Games, and Publisher Activations

Evermore devotes significant space to tabletop and trading card games, particularly Magic: The Gathering. At First Comics News, she reports on upcoming Magic sets such as Lorwyn Eclipsed, covering release timing and set themes in a straightforward news format aimed at players tracking product announcements.

She also covers crossover products like Magic: The Gathering x Sonic the Hedgehog for Secret Lair, detailing the collaboration and what it offers collectors and fans of both franchises.

Her publisher-focused pieces often connect these game products back to convention activations. In reporting on Wizards of the Coast at San Diego Comic-Con, she links the company’s presence at the show to current and upcoming Magic initiatives, giving readers a sense of how on-site experiences complement card game releases.

Across this strand of coverage, her distinguishing trait is a consistent focus on how new sets, crossovers, and activations feel to engaged fans - what they can expect to see, play, and collect - rather than deep mechanical analysis.

Narrative-Driven Game Reviews and Fandom

Alongside news and event coverage, Evermore writes reviews of narrative-focused games and visual novels for Temple of Geek. Her review of “Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon” examines the storytelling, character work, and emotional tone of the game, situating it within high-fantasy and visual novel traditions while paying attention to how its narrative structure lands for players. The review balances plot description with commentary on pacing, themes, and presentation, reflecting an interest in how games tell stories rather than just how they play.

Her author bios emphasize a deep love for all types of games, from video games to tabletop role-playing games, and note that she spends considerable time immersed in high-fantasy worlds and crafting characters for TTRPGs. That background informs her coverage of both digital and analog titles: she gravitates toward fantasy, character-driven narratives, and community-oriented play, whether the piece is a review, a news item, or a convention gallery.

Taken together, her body of work presents a reporter whose distinguishing mark is an embedded perspective on fandom - cosplay, panels, meetups, and showcase lineups - supported by a clear enthusiasm for games and the stories they enable.