Lately in an attempt to see if Pea would be interested in something other than Ni No Kuni (now logging 100+ hours) which has less playability now that the main quest is complete, we have started to play around with Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Now this iteration of Zelda […]
Samantha Blackmon
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We’ve all heard the old saying, “If you can’t ask, then you can’t afford it”, but I want us to consider for a moment a slightly modified version that might say “If you have to ask, it might be true for you”. In the last couple of days I have […]
Episode 55: Mommy Dearest: A Mother’s Day Tribute to Mamas Who Game With Their Kids (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we hear from mothers who game with their children (in myriad ways). We are joined this week by Jennifer, the mother of our […]
So Papo & Yo (Minority Media, 2012) is a game that I have been interested in playing for a while. When the indie title appeared on PS3 about a year ago I did a bit of research to see what other folks were saying about the title. I was simultaneously […]
Alex, Nicole, and I get great pleasure out of the work that we do here at NYMG and we really love it when we hear that others get some joy out of the work that we do as well. Not Your Mama’s Gamer gives us the opportunity to share our […]
For me (and Pea), the time has come. Tonight we will beat the White Witch (failed last night because I forgot to equip our new wand). There is no better time to beat a boss and end a game than a Friday night. After that Pea will be able to […]
Episode 54: Raising a Self Saving Princess: An Interview with Mike Hoye (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk with Mike Hoye, the dad who hacked The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker so that his daughter could play as a […]
Let me tell you a little story of how a video game made me tell my little girl a lie. Pea and I are nearing the end of the main quest line of Ni No Kuni. And in true RPG fashion we are about 60 hours in. Going in to […]
Episode 53: Lara Croft: Whimpering Idiot or Feminist Icon? (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk about Tomb Raider! It’s a long episode and the first half is us talking about what we’ve been playing (a lot apparently) and the news. In […]
Mother’s Day is a month away and at Not Your Mama’s Gamer we are looking forward to a little something special to celebrate mamas all over. Are you a mother-child gaming team? Do you game together? Support each other’s gaming? Chat about gaming? Maybe you even share games or tell […]
So yeah, this post is going to be about voice. Voice has always been a huge issue with me. Not necessarily with how a voice sounds, but with the absence of voice and what that absence of voice actually means. It’s because of this that The Little Mermaid is one […]
So things have been pretty quiet around here post conferences, but that’s because we have lots of fun things in the works! One of the things that we have coming at the beginning of the week is a Tomb Raider spoiler episode and we’ve been working hard to get some […]
To steal an idea from The Borderhouse blog, I would love to know what other people are playing this week. They call it Whatcha Playing Wednesday….I call ours procrastinating when I don’t want to work 🙂 It is especially hard when work is gaming. I was at GDC last week and played […]
Episode 52: The Proof in the Pudding: Doing the Academic Gamer Thing (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk a bit about our presentations that were delivered at the 4Cs conference in Las Vegas last week and share our presentations with you. […]
I’ve kind of fallen behind in a lot of things in recent weeks and one of them has definitely been my posts on what it’s like to game with children. Not as in having children, but physically with a child. As we wait for the new Lego City Wii U […]
I spend a lot of time listening to other gaming podcasts and a bit less time watching video podcasts about games. A lot of the folks that I watch and listen to have a lot in common with me older gamers (Gamers with Jobs), female gamers (Ladies of Leet), gamers […]