Someone recently asked me if it’s frustrating talking about harassment in games year after year. Yes, of course it is. When we started NYMG over 6 years ago, I did it with the idea that we would have a hand in ending the harassment women face online. Little did we […]
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In a recent Games and Culture article, “’I can Defend Myself’: Women’s Strategies for Coping with Harassment While Gaming Online,” author Amanda Cote presents research and interview data collected to show how women and other targeted groups deal with constant online harassment. She found five main ways women cope: “These […]
Five years ago as I sat in dr. b’s class, I kept noticing the NYMG sticker on the back of her laptop. I had no idea what it meant, and I was too shy to ask. I learned a lot in that class, and by the end of the semester, […]
Back in April I posted a thought piece on whether or not systems themselves can be the cause of harassment, hate, and toxicity. My post was inspired by a research study that found a strong correlation between systematic behaviors and human ones: when systems informed a player they were being […]
Invisibility Blues is back for a discussion of the position of games criticism within the industry, and the sometimes unfortunate response to critical work viewed as damaging to gaming communities. We would like to thank writer Tauriq Moosa for joining us this time around as we discuss our roles as critics, […]
CW: Rape, Harassment, Threats About a month ago, LEGO released the new Ghostbusters Ecto 1 & 2 set, which included the new female characters. On that day, someone from Reddit posted a picture of his or her 6-year-old daughter excitedly holding her new set. If I recall correctly, the set […]
CW for sexual violence in this post, and some of the content may be considered NSFW. Earlier this week, Compulsion Games’ released a preview version of We Happy Few, the nightmarish dystopian game set in a drug-fueled alternate-reality 1960s England. As this game speaks to everything I love—weird visual styles, […]
Barbie’s new career was announced earlier this year, and now the new doll has been released: Game Developer Barbie, a doll whose price shot up almost immediately (what was initially available for $13 is now a hundred or more). While the doll is only available in white skin (for now? […]
Obsession is one of the most frightful things I’ve encountered. I’m not talking about how we think of obsession in popular culture: someone counting calories, watching a show over and over, or even wanting to spend most of your time with your puppies (I’ve been known to proclaim that I’m […]
I’ve been watching the second season of Fargo, which is a great show. The second season is set in the 70’s, so much like Mad Men, the sexism is blindingly obvious, as it was in the first season of Fargo. The portrayals of sexism in both seasons are a bit […]
It’s no surprise that people generally think the internet has made our society more violent and toxic. Perhaps it’s not the internet as much as the anonymity it provides, but either way. Hate, misogyny, racism, homophobia, and all kinds of fear-based/difference-based abuse has always existed, of course. We didn’t need […]
Conditions, diseases, the law, careers, crimes. The list could possibly go on forever. What list? You ask. The list of things that mean less, carry less weight, and are taken less seriously when they happen to women than to men. One only needs to quickly peruse the history of medical […]
As we prepare to write this, we sit in silence, simultaneously furious and sad. Sad because a woman we would like to call a comrade-in-arms has met with a huge injustice and furious because we live and work in a community that not only makes that kind of injustice possible, […]
NYMG is by no means new to streaming on Twitch and we’re certainly not new to talking about it. (Sarah’s mentioned her own plights as a woman streaming here and Alex comments on her love for the gaming community in Twitch here); I, however, I’m just getting my feet wet. […]
Minecraft: cultural phenomenon, powerhouse in online gaming, bedrock of young gamers’ experience and learning, and now, a hotbed of abuse and playground for predators, according to a recent piece on Motherboard by Matthew Broomfield. Broomfield details the exploits of YouTuber LionMaker, who was, and is, befriending and exploiting children as young […]
Recently, a reader approached us and asked if we could share this exclusive story detailing her experiences within the games industry. The following relates her time spent working for a major studio’s big game release. The NYMG editorial staff stands with the writer in sharing her perspective on events, and […]