In 2011, I made the best Xbox Live avatar ever, according to me. That’s because Bastion had come out and they made Kid’s outfit available for all avatars. I shelled out…I guess it was four dollars….got myself the outfit, gave myself some elf ears and spiky red hair and bam! […]
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Top image: part of artist Krista Hoefle’s Quest NYMGers Bianca Batti and Alisha Karabinus will be in Chicago, IL June 25th for a panel at Woman Made Gallery. The panel follows the opening night of Krista Hoefle’s Quest exhibition, and alongside the ongoing CODE/SWITCH and CODE/MIX exhibitions. Per the gallery’s […]
If last year’s E3 was all about the women, this year’s is all about the undead hordes, with announcements about the next season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, a sequel to NYMG-beloved State of Decay, a Dead Rising 4 that looks like it’s getting back to the franchise’s roots, and […]
Forecast: Not good but getting better. Maybe. I’ve written before about being nonbinary and considering what that looked like in games and why continued strides in representation matters. This week Laytonya Pennington at BGD looked at Kingdom Hearts Unchained X and offered evidence of why better representation is necessary for […]
Spring (May) 2016: Gaming Marathon On Saturday, May 7, 2016 we are hosting our third Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen the Flint Child Health and Development Fund (FCHDF) as our charity. The FCHDF was created to support the delivery of critical public health, medical, and community-based services […]
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, […]
On Saturday, February 13, 2016 we are hosting our second Gaming for Good event. The Gaming Mammothon seeks to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF), which provides education and detection services for women across the country. Founded in 1991, the NBCF provides free and low-cost mammograms to […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have our newest guest writer and podcaster, Kishonna Gray! Kishonna is an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. She is also the Founder & Director of the Critical Gaming Lab housed in the School of Justice Studies. Kishonna completed her PhD in 2011 at Arizona […]
At the Distant Worlds: Music of Final Fantasy concert in Pittsburgh on August 1, conductor Arnie Roth dropped a bit of shocking news: a Final Fantasy XII remake is in the works. The bit came during his first monologue, where he introduced himself and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the […]
As you may know, we are currently seeking funding in support of our project Invisibility Blues, a critical video series exploring race and representation in games, and with just over a week to go in the Kickstarter campaign, we have created a teaser video showcasing some of the type of […]
Nintendo president, Satora Iwata, passed away Saturday at the age of 55. During his 2005 GDC keynote, Iwata-san said “On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.” And it was the gamer in Iwata-san […]
Today we are excited to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for our new Invisibility Blues video series is going live. Through this series, Samantha and Alisha will explore race and racial representation in video games via such topics as women of color, indigenous populations, and character generation engines in games. […]
Because of the woefully bad performance of the PC version of the final installment of the Batman trilogy, Batman Arkham Knight, WB has suspended sales of the game for PC until such time that they can patch the game to a playable point. WB representatives on the game’s official forum […]
Yesterday, it was reported on Twitter and Reddit that Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet’s MMORPG, had added a transgender NPC — or rather, featured the transition of an NPC, Sya, who had formerly been known as Symon. Sya appeared with yesterday’s game patch that featured the re-opening of Lion’s Arch, a […]