This post is brought on by two facts this week: 1) video games can be powerful rhetorical tools and 2) I lost someone who means the world to me this week. So if it gets a bit rambly bear with me. I had been playing through Freebird Games‘ Indie RPG, […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
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I have just finished reading Jesper Juul’s A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players. For anyone interested in the casual/hardcore debate, I highly recommend this quick read (about 150 pages excluding research data). Since I’ve talked numerous times about the casual/hardcore debate, most often focusing on the gender […]
As a woman who plays games I find myself constantly wishing that more games had playable female characters in them. This wish does not stop me from playing the games I love, but when they start to embrace the playable female character I get really excited. This recently occurred when […]
It’s difficult to find provocative topics to write about each week when I am drowning in dissertation work. Right now I’m working on my literature review, which though often a throwaway chapter, is crucial to my argument. The lack of overlap between important fields, and the ways I suggest we […]
Episode 51: Don’t Psychoanalyze Me: A Romantic Valentine’s Day Episode (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk about all of the usual stuff and some deeply twisted stuff under the guise of talking about our three favorite relationships in video games. Links […]
I think it’s important to recognize the connections between the video game industry and other STEM fields. Too often video games get forgotten because they’re, well, games. They are play. They aren’t serious. (All of which of course is contentious.) Brilliant work is being done about the gender inequities in […]
Nicole’s post on video games and art has brought up something for me that is a bit of a sore spot. And that would be Jonathan Blow’s latest whack-a-doodle (yes, that is the technical term) rant on Twitter about “art” games (defined seemingly as those made by him) vs. AAA […]
Here at Not Your Mama’s Gamer we’ve talked a lot about the debate over whether or not video games can be considered art. Some haters still say they aren’t, but I’m pretty sure the rest of the world has come to conclude that, yes video games are their own brand […]
Bear with me for a bit while I get to video games. We need a little context here. I remember watching a prime time news show back in 2004 where “well trained” Korean teens exclaimed that the Americans were Nazis, GW Bush was Hitler, and that America must be destroyed […]
Episode 50: We’re Golden!: Celebrating Episode 50 With Meagan Marie (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) Our 50th episode where we are joined by Meagan Marie, community manager for Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics). Meagan she talks about her work at Crystal Dynamics, in the industry […]
Alright alright, everyone calm down. Just because Sony left us an eerie message on the PlayStation blog yesterday doesn’t mean that we’re getting the announcement we think we are. If you haven’t seen the video yet watch it here: Yup, a 45 second video filled with a whole lot of […]