WARNING: This post will be somewhat spoilery, if you haven’t finished Bioshock Infinite and don’t want to ruin the ending, stop reading! Today Irrational Games spiced up the release of the first DLC for Infinite, Clash in the Clouds, by showing players a teaser trailer for the first of a two part […]
Monthly Archives: July 2013
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This week, I wanted to continue my exploration of The Last of Us, with a little dash of something I didn’t get to talk about: The Walking Dead’s 400 Days DLC. As I played through 400 Days, I found myself thinking a great deal about my choices and what impact they would […]
I’m currently sitting here at a coffee shop with Sam, and I realized I hadn’t put up my post for this week. As I tried to think about what I should talk about, I found that I could only think about one thing: Don’t Starve, the indie game I’ve been […]
Episode 59: “Vag Up”: On the Strength of Women in Game(s) (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) In this episode we talk about our favorite female protagonists and what the difficulty of these choices means for the games industry. This episode was recorded (mostly) in person […]
It’s been a while since I’ve done a play with your kids post because not much has changed in these parts. We are still doing a second play through of Ni No Kuni and spending far too much precious gaming time on Animal Crossing: New Leaf…both Pea and I. And […]
The Bechdel Test, first introduced by cartoonist Alison Bechdel as a part of her comic strip entitled Dykes to Watch Out For, is a test that gauges female representation in film. It revolves around three simple rules: one, that the piece of work has at least two named female characters; […]
After years of being a quiet, shy, and somewhat sheltered girl I learned the hard way how valuable it is to just be yourself in life and not care what others think. I come from a family of women who were taught to understand their strength as women, but who […]
Confession: I almost didn’t finish The Last of Us, and I’m going to tell you why. Spoilers abound here. You’ve been warned. In the months before the release of Naughty Dog’s take on an infected apocalypse, I heard the hype. I saw some images, but avoided trailers (in an effort […]
Story in video games is one of those controversial topics, though no video game would exist, let alone be successful, without story. Some of the very first debates about video games, arguments that would eventually become the foundation of Game Studies as a field, were about narratology and ludology, or […]
It’s been that kind of week in this country. The kind that make you question which century we are actually living in. But, don’t worry, the events of this week are not what I am going to write about today. At least not directly. Bear with me and let’s see […]
I have a pink controller for my Playstation 3. The Nintendo 3DS XL I recently purchased is also pink, albeit a pink and white combination. The path in my Animal Crossing town is composed of pink tile. I don’t make any attempt to hide my affection for some of the […]
Since San Diego Comic Con is right around the corner (as in this Thursday!), I figured I would shed some light on the learning curve that occurs when you attend your first few comic cons. This past year I took my boyfriend to his first con ever and it reminded […]
“We won’t even start [a game] if we don’t think we can build a franchise out of it,” Ubisoft VP Tony Key recently told [a]list daily’s Steve Peterson. “There’s no more fire and forget – it’s too expensive … until we’re the biggest game of the year we’re not going to […]
I don’t want to hear whining because this info is a “no duh” for you game pros. It wasn’t that long ago that we all experienced our first Steam sale. Maybe you even have a few games from that sale that you haven’t gotten around to. But let’s be honest, […]
I’m a woman and a gamer and I have been for 37 years, since I was a girl of 7 fighting with my cousins over handheld Coleco games. 1976. Back before we even thought about female characters in games. Our characters were blips on the screen. No head, no body, […]
It’s no secret that I’m quite the peruser of the fandom-friendly social media site Tumblr. It not only creates an open environment for fandom flailing but also acts as a medium for average users to call out the various issues and controversies that occur in said fandoms and mainstream society […]