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 […]
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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 […]
One more week to go. Can you feel it? Is your body ready, Reggie Fils-Aime? Nintendo On June 14, Nintendo will stream some sort of Super Smash Bros. announcement on Twitch. What could it be? (Please let it involve an Amiibo restock.) Sony Could The Last Guardian actually show up? […]
It’s June 1, which means E3 is only two weeks away. The floodgates are opening, releasing a deluge of pre-E3 announcements. Check out a quick roundup below. Microsoft Rise of the Tomb Raider gets a new trailer two weeks ahead of E3. Check out its box art. Respawn Entertainment will not unveil […]
I get a lot of people asking me how the writing that I do here on the site connects back to the academic writing that is expected in the job that I do that keeps the lights on around here. Well, today I presented a piece (along with Alex Layne […]
The ways that I see my seemingly divergent areas of scholarly study constantly coming together still continues to amaze me after years of doing game studies work. This week in my Minority Rhetorics graduate seminar we had a great conversation about Gloria Anzuldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera and blaxpolitation. To keep it brief […]
What exactly marks a good writer? I don’t know that there’s a real answer, even with two creative writing degrees under my belt. I can break down a story and analyze the elements, the way everything fits together, the way it might weigh in on various scales of quality, both […]