I usually try not to get all emotional in my posts, but I just couldn’t help it with my topic this week. Hopefully you, reader, can enjoy and do a little reflecting on your own. I recently spent two weeks without the Internet. I competed in the 2015 PDGA Amateur […]
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Back in May Electronic Arts announced that it would feature female soccer players in its popular FIFA game series, starting with the upcoming FIFA 16. According to the release statement, the game will feature 12 international woman’s teams. Many were also excited to learn that the women would not be […]
Another anime season has come and gone and it’s time again to reflect on and discuss some notable series of the Spring 2015 season. This season unfortunately didn’t produce as many standout titles as last season did, which was something I admittedly find a bit disappointing. Many of this spring’s titles […]
I got married last weekend and, coincidentally, that same weekend, the New York Times published a trend piece that explores the fact that the number of women keeping their maiden names after marriage is on the rise. And I say “coincidentally” because I just so happen to be one of […]
Another E3 has quickly come and gone, and as I reflect back on the hours I spent watching conferences and live streams from the show floor, hunting down gameplay video, and reading the latest gaming news and updates, I can’t help but think that this year was notably different from […]
Recently there has been a lot of discussion in the games community about criticism and objectivity. Questions have arisen such as: What is criticism, and what does it mean for the gaming sphere? What are the bounds of criticism, and what purpose does it serve? Is critique censorship? What is […]
Approximately two years ago in the wake of E3 2013 I wrote an article for the site about how I had once wanted to be a booth babe. For those who may be unfamiliar with the term, a “booth babe” is a woman, generally a model, who is hired by […]
A few weeks ago, Polygon editor Arthur Gies published his review on The Witcher 3, an action-based role-playing game developed by CD Projekt RED and based on the Polish fantasy novel of the same name. Though Gies’ review was largely positive and although he still admitted that The Witcher 3 […]
The latest entry in the Mad Max franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, employs its grim, post-apocalyptic world to comment on a good many contemporary concerns. There’s the obvious one, which was confirmed to be director George Miller’s inspiration for the series: the oil crisis and ongoing concerns over the sustainability of […]
There are a few things I noticed in the Final Fantasy XV Duscae demo that have made me a bit concerned for the highly anticipated upcoming addition to the Final Fantasy series. The automatic camera angles are jarring and have a nasty habit of changing right when you’re trying to […]
Episode 100 (Part the Second): From Diversity to Dialogue Trees: A Conversation with Brianna Wu (Right click and save as to download, or hit us up on iTunes or Stitcher) So it wasn’t all parties and mayhem in our celebration of our 100th podcast episode; we also sat down for a very […]
The very first time I tried my hand at streaming I was hit on. I had just returned from GameStop with my just-purchased gaming headset – I had never really seen the need for one before as I rarely game online – and was a bit giddy to get started […]
Two of Marvel’s Avengers, Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner, have come under backlash for sexist comments against their female teammate, Scarlett Johansson’s character, Black Widow. In a video interview with Digital Spy, Renner called Black Widow a “slut” and Evans followed up with, “I was going to say something along […]
Romance can sometimes be a tricky and troubling thing, and it appears that this is no different in the the virtual world. In my review of Story of Seasons, a new addition to the Harvest Moon franchise that had to undergo a name change due to licensing issues, I described […]
In some ways my experience last week could have been the closing scene from a cheesy Disney movie: a girl enters the room and a hush falls across the crowd. The sudden arrival seemed to have fundamentally changed the character of the environment. Except, of course, it wasn’t a ball […]
With the release of the upgraded State of Decay Year One Survival Edition just around the corner, it seemed a good time to revisit the original game, which I explored at length over the months after release in terms of realism and representation (as well as gameplay and mechanics). At […]