I’m currently working my way through Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves. I’m writing about it here because the book was described to me as feminist science fiction written by a man. I had forgotten that description until I had gotten a little ways into the book, but it came back to me […]
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CW: Rape, Harassment, Threats About a month ago, LEGO released the new Ghostbusters Ecto 1 & 2 set, which included the new female characters. On that day, someone from Reddit posted a picture of his or her 6-year-old daughter excitedly holding her new set. If I recall correctly, the set […]
I’ve written a couple posts on Rise of the Tomb Raider already because I’ve been playing the game a lot lately, and while I’ve been playing, I’ve also been watching Jessica Jones on Netflix. As a result of my concurrent engagement with both, I’ve been thinking that the two seem to […]
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about the construction of motherhood in Alien: Isolation and Among the Sleep, and since then, I’ve been playing Rise of the Tomb Raider and thinking a lot about how parenthood is constructed in this game as well. Indeed, it would seem that, […]
With her humongous axe and fire orange braids, I grinned like an idiot as I led Thora, Jotun‘s viking protagonist, from one pissed off giant to the next. Not only does she possess a diverse body type, sturdy and difficult to take down, she’s also unwavering in her courage and that’s a […]
After this year’s E3 I thought that it would be fun to look back at one of my posts about last year’s E3 and the status of women in games. Last year we were talking about Aisha Tyler’s claim that female NPCs in games increased diversity in games and Anita […]
I’m not sure why I call myself such an unapologetic fan of Bethesda Softworks and all their related arms; I played Skyrim a while, but found it mostly boring, I won’t touch Elder Scrolls Online, and if you mention The Evil Within, I will set off on an hour-long rant […]
I have spent a lot of my last 40 years playing adventure games. Text based adventure games, monochromatic adventure games with crazy little pixelated figures that “moved” from screen to screen along with the story, 8-bit, 16-bit, cel shaded, PC, console, mobile…you name it. Lots of them. More of them […]
Last October, Sega released Alien: Isolation, and much of the discussion around the game has dealt with its pacing, its level of difficulty, its relationship and faithfulness to the film franchise, and whether or not the game is successfully scary. Relatively little discussion has occurred, however, regarding the manner in […]
Miguel Sicart defines games as systems “in which the rules force the player to face ethical dilemmas, or in which the rules themselves raise ethical issues.” The game rules force players to interact in specific ways in order to confront ethical issues. In this manner, Life is Strange asks players to […]
PlayStation recently announced plans to launch storyline DLC for The Last of Us, 2014’s Left Behind, as its own title on the PlayStation store on May 12. It will be available on both PS3 and PS4 for $10 / £8 / €10. The package also includes a two hour […]
This is the first in a series of Critical Let’s Plays on State of Decay Year One Survival Edition we’ll be featuring here at NYMG, exploring Lifeline, the main story mode, and Breakdown (though we may not do the full stories for all modes). There’s a lot to unpack in […]
So this has been rolling around in my head for a couple of weeks now, but I’m just now getting a chance to sit down and write about it. When the thought first came to me I wanted to write about Aisha Tyler’s comments about the increased numbers of female […]
“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 […]
WARNING: This post will be somewhat spoilery, if you haven’t finished Bioshock Infinite and don’t want to ruin the ending, stop reading! Today Irrational Games spiced up the release of the first DLC for Infinite, Clash in the Clouds, by showing players a teaser trailer for the first of a two part […]
When most people think of comics and comic books, they think of superheroes and boys. For a long time strong male characters have been the face of comic books; Superman, Batman, Captain America, Thor… you get the idea. When Wonder Woman was introduced she offered something that comics had lacked […]