Somehow I missed this LEGO commercial from last year, but this week Facebook has been showing it to me daily. It’s a good commercial, but not a perfect commercial. The commercial shows a girl playing with LEGO sets as well as creating her own LEGO builds while integrating the creations […]
Monthly Archives: October 2015
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Last week, I had to read Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century for a course on antebellum American literature that I’m taking this semester, and in it, Margaret Fuller critiques the gender hierarchies and relationship patterns that she saw occurring in the nineteenth century. But one moment in the […]
So this week I finally played Super Mario Maker for the Wii U. I haven’t purchased the game for home because I have a ridiculous backlog of games that have come out in the last month and Fallout 4 and Tomb Raider are both looming for release next month. But […]
Another anime season has come and gone and it’s time again to reflect on and discuss some notable series of this past anime season. The Summer 2015 season delivered a wide variety of titles and genres and while not all of my chosen series lived up to their expectations, there […]
Posts are circulating around Facebook about the connection between the shooting in Oregon and participation ribbons. Posters say that part of what breeds individuals like the shooter (we choose not to give more attention to the killer and to focus on the victims) is a culture that protects children from everything, […]
While I am a huge fan of sports, I am not particularly an avid follower of sports video games. During my undergraduate years, I would consistently slay anyone who dared to challenge me in Madden, NCAA, 2K, and even Top Spin (yo, my backhand was nasty). My interest for these […]
#YesIPlay, but these days I spend much more time in these amazing gaming support sites that the gaming community creates for itself around games of all types. Almost every game has them: tabletop, pen and paper, mobile, flash, video. These spaces might be as dense as wikis like WoWWiki, representing […]
Since before the launch of NYMG many of us here have been using our gaming to raise money for various charities. With the annual drop in temperatures comes the annual Extra Life Marathon to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. This is going to be my 6th consecutive year […]
In what seems to be turning into a theme, LEGO has me once again scratching my head over yet another weird decision. LEGO Dimensions released last week, and I’ve been having a blast with it, as you know if you listened to our latest podcast, but the LEGO community at […]
I read an article by Margaret Atwood recently in which she discusses the idea of freedom and argues that, today, we are “double-plus unfree” due to the fact that, as Atwood puts it, we have “handed the keys to those who promised to be our defenders but who have become, […]
No Man’s Sky, the procedurally generated universe-exploring created by the small team at Hello Games, may have made a splash at this year’s E3, but last night’s demo on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert launched the game into a whole new dimension. Hello Games’ co-founder Sean Murray seemed in his […]
So this semester one of the things that I have been doing (in my ample free time) is working on a diversity grant proposal to fund a tech/games/STEM based summer program for young girls of color. As I have been thinking through the minutiae of the project I have been […]
Episode 112: On LatinX Nerds and Hispanic Heritage Month: A Conversation with Sylvia Monreal (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). We sat down with Sylvia Monreal of ¿Como Se Dice Nerd? to talk about her Hispanic Heritage Month Game Jam, Latinx identity in gaming […]