**Triggers: sexual assault, sexual harassment** Recently, a screenshot of an explicit conversation between Josh Mattingly, a video game reporter, and “Alice,” a game industry worker made some pretty big waves. The two had met a couple times at professional event and Mattingly friended Alice on FB. Immediately after she accepted, […]
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Whenever an article about women in games is published somewhere like Kotaku, there are familiar cries that “this is not games news.” The writer of an article on the Duke Nukem release, “No Girls Allowed: Keep Out!” is criticized over and over in the comments for not talking about the […]
I though in honor of my post being on MLK Day, I would talk a bit about my favorite historical video games. I know I’ve written about things like the Civ franchise. Games like Civ take historical elements and recast them into a new story (or rather, they provide you […]
Do video game companies think that if you can find someone to hang out with that you probably have better things to do than play video games together? Is it some secretly sexist thing, assuming only one person per household plays games (assumedly the guy, of course)? Maybe it’s a […]
The holidays can be a joyous time, but also a stressful time. This holiday season has been particularly stressful for me, since I’m on the job market and pretty much in flux for the next few months about where I will work, buy a house, and live next year and […]
For those of you who love Dungeons and Dragons, you’ll definitely want to check out Neverwinter. Neverwinter is a free MMORPG, with gameplay that is reminiscent of WoW and Diablo 3. It’s a nice mix of classic roleplay with some updated combat and action. They also have something called “The […]
[Sam, I know you have no self-control when it comes to buying games. Please, for your own sake, don’t read this article] If you’re anything like me, you spent many hours shopping last week but made sure not to tell anyone about it, so as to avoid the backlash from […]
So it seems my computer will not automatically put the ´ above the e in Pokémon. It does, however, recognize that Pokemon is not a word, while Pokémon is a word. Pokémon is truly an international craze, but one that for some reason I just totally missed. I would like […]
Hive was originally a board game that was developed in 2001 by John Yianni and Gen42 Games. It is an abstract strategy game, which means that you have pieces that can move according to certain rules, you alternate turns, and to be good at the game you have to think […]
Like our blog? Do you enjoy playing and thinking critically about games? Want to do something in the gaming industry but worry you don’t have the “tech” skills? Well you may not know it, but even without skills to make the games, there are still ways that you can further […]
For those who didn’t get a chance to check out my blog last week, I’m writing a 2 part series about my gaming history. HOWEVER, we have a pretty big event coming up on Saturday that I would like to talk about (and plug!). So rest assured, Kid Chameleon is […]
In honor of the hilarious and fascinating series of stories being told over at Cody Reimer’s blog, I’ve decided to share a part of my gaming history. If you haven’t seen his 5 part series on his first time playing EQ, you need to go to the beginning and check […]
Halloween is one of our favorite times here at NYMG. There have been so many video games in the horror genre that I, and I’m sure countless others, would consider some of the best games ever made. You have psychological thrillers like Heavy Rain, blood and guts carnage like Silent […]
It’s easy to get lost in all the bad things in the gaming community. It seems like everywhere you look there are sexual assaults, exploitations, racism, and so on. We critique a lot on this site, but we do it for one reason: we love gaming. We love the community, […]
**spoilers** (up to 60% of the game) Playing GTA V, you expect a few things: racism, sexism, violence. Buying a copy is a kind of tacit agreement that you will be getting offended some time in the near future. I don’t think anyone expected respectful portrayals of women (there […]
Trigger Warnings: Rape, rape culture, lotsa swearing. [a great, comprehensive recap of this situation can be found here: http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-penny-arcade-a-timeline] About a week and a half ago, the Dickwolves controversy reared it’s ugly, ugly head again when Gabe said in an interview that he wishes he wouldn’t have pulled the Dickwolves […]