The Alaska carefully crafted in Upper One Games’ first creation Never Alone is as beautiful as it is haunting; as enchanting as it is perilous. In some of the most treacherous lands in the continent a young girl named Nuna, accompanied only by an arctic fox known simply as Fox, […]
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The Final Girl: it’s a trope that’s sure to resonate with any horror fan, regardless of their level of interest or devotion to the genre. Referential to the trend of horror media leaving a solitary female character as its “last person standing,” The Final Girl is generally defined as being […]
*Trigger Warning: brief discussions of suicide follow as well as discussions of depression below.* The news of actor and comedian Robin Williams’ death by suicide came to my attention from all sides this week. My family was talking about it in person as it buzzed across the daily news. Across […]
In an effort to promote Namco’s recent edition in the Soul Calibur franchise- Soul Calibur: Lose Swords, a free to play downloadable game available for PS3 – and perhaps in an attempt to boost the fighting franchise’s relevancy, Namco will be offering their players the chance to attain some “season […]
He flirts excessively and inappropriately with women, has an obsessive need to ogle all the attractive ladies around him, and may or may not partner his verbal sexual harassment with physical groping or “loose hands.” Sounds like a gross character right? Not always, because deep down this character might have […]
In a shockingly poor, not to mention homophobic and just generally nonsensical, moment of PR, Nintendo admitted today that they will not include same sex relationships in their upcoming social game Tomodatchi Life. Tomodatchi Life seems to be00 a mixture of the Sims, Animal Crossing, and their Mii avatar creation […]
“Come, tuck yourself into bed / Let me tell a story / Of Lemuria, a kingdom past /And a girl born for glory,” a woman lyrically instructs as the stylized game begins. Much as it’s opening lines suggest, Ubisoft’s new cross-platform RPG Child of Light in many ways resembles a […]
I must first begin with a disclaimer: there is a good deal of rant in the post that follows and for that I apologize. When I was first told that there was a growing movement of male fans of the latest Disney princess movie Frozen who had begun to draw […]
When the new year dawned after the close of another, I found myself curious regarding the quality of media representation for the year. As I set forth to do a little bit of investigative research I found that there are a decent amount of statistics for female representation in blockbuster […]
Every week as I rack my brain trying to figure out something new to discuss I always fall back to asking myself “what do I constantly think about when playing video games?” This question always circles back to the fact that I wish I was employed in the video game […]
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 […]