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Yearly Archives: 2015
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It’s no small secret that we’re big fans of board games around here so I was pretty excited when I got the chance to get my hands on a beta copy of the re-boot of Kill Doctor Lucky by Cheapass Games. Clue has been one of my favorite mainstream board games […]
Alisha recently alerted me to a piece making the rounds on Facebook called “Ghoul, You’ll Be a Woman Soon: Supernatural Puberty and the Horror of Periods,” in which Emalie Soderback discusses a subgenre of film that she likes to call “supernatural-period-girl-horror.” Soderback begins this examination by laying its foundations: Rosemary’s […]
This weekend, several NYMG staffers (and friends!) are gearing up for the 2015 Extra Life marathon, a 24-hour frenzy of gaming for charity. We will be hosting streams from several of our members on the official NYMG Twitch channel, but below we have listed individual channels along with a preview […]
I love you. I hate you. Let’s have sex. Leave me alone. “Somebody help me” joins the ranks of the most powerful three word phrases in the English language. It can be an annoyed exasperation or a desperate plea. But one thing is certain: we all need the occasional helpful […]
Last week the New York Times ran a piece on gender and toys/costumes and it really got me started thinking, especially after Pea and I went on our annual post-Halloween half-price costume stock-up trip (it’s a thing, trust me). While I thought that we could run in, fight the crowds, and […]
(SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW) Last night I watched an interesting indie horror movie called Lost After Dark. I picked it up because I grew up loving 80’s horror movies and this one promised to the “best 80’s horror movie not filmed in the 80’s.” Sounded good to me, even though I […]
Last week, I read an article by Mike Mariani called “The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies,” and it got me thinking about the folkloric and mythological trajectory of the undead. Indeed, what strikes me about Mariani’s article is his argument that our current pop culture iterations of the zombie whitewash […]
Episode 114: No One Benefits From Exclusion: A Conversation with Lauren Warren (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). This episode, we sat down with Lauren Warren of Black Girl Nerds to talk first-person shooters, transferable skills, and Lauren’s Diversity in Gaming project (here’s […]
Last week a good bit of our mama and me gaming revolved around Minecraft Story Mode…until Pea watched her first episode of StampyCat playing Super Mario Maker. Oddly lots of our gaming choices revolve around StampyCat. Doesn’t every 7 year old want to play what Stampy plays? But this time […]
Not long ago, I started playing State of Decay again. I know, I know, but at this point, it’s become a comfort object for me, something to help me relax during a busy week. I started a new Breakdown game and fiddled a little with Lifeline again, and looking at […]
Today’s Power Hour review is really a review of a game within a game. I love LEGO Dimensions, but as I’ve written before, it’s pretty expensive. I’ve been mostly skeptical about the Level Packs, which come with both LEGO builds and a new level, but also come at a pretty […]
My parents came out to visit last weekend, and while they were here, my mom and I played through the first few hours of Until Dawn together. As we played, I was reminded of the fact that, growing up (and still), I often bonded with my mom over horror movies, […]
The Dwarf Run is a very interesting game because its very existence represents a desire in the gaming community for a return to early point and click adventure games. When I was growing up, Realmz was my absolute favorite game. Realmz is a fantasy adventure RPG only developed for the […]
This week I played The Beginner’s Guide, the latest effort from Davey Wreden, creator of the much-lauded The Stanley Parable. The Beginner’s Guide, much like that game, is a short experience, built in Source, and as The Stanley Parable is a commentary on agency and game design, The Beginner’s Guide […]
Our work at NYMG has always been in service of making games better for everyone. This includes the community that loves games, the industry that makes them, and the academics that talk about them incessantly (myself included). Some people don’t like the way we go about this. In particular, some […]