When Bethesda made the E3 announcement that they were going to be releasing a mobile Fallout game I was more than a little bit excited. I have been playing Fallout Shelter (iOS) almost constantly since it launched. I started with just one vault and thought that I might get that one […]
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Episode 104: Because the Apocalypse Is About People, or An Interview with Undead Labs (Right click and save as to download, or hit us up on iTunes or Stitcher). It’s not any kind of secret that we like State of Decay — we’ve written extensively on Undead Labs’ title since its […]
I like to fight as much as the next person who grew up with video games, but I find I’ll often avoid combat when I can. Not in the style of oh, let’s run past these guys when playing Destiny, for efficiency’s sake… it’s more the thrill of finding a […]
I have been an avid Frisbee (aka disc) golfer for years. That’s not to say I’m good because I’m not, but I am passable. I played in the 2014 Amateur Worlds Championship (where I got second to last in my division, only because the person I was battling for last […]
Another E3 has quickly come and gone, and as I reflect back on the hours I spent watching conferences and live streams from the show floor, hunting down gameplay video, and reading the latest gaming news and updates, I can’t help but think that this year was notably different from […]
Recently there has been a lot of discussion in the games community about criticism and objectivity. Questions have arisen such as: What is criticism, and what does it mean for the gaming sphere? What are the bounds of criticism, and what purpose does it serve? Is critique censorship? What is […]
This week, I’ve been reading through The Cult of LEGO, which has turned out to be one of the most comprehensive accounts of LEGO I’ve read to date. The authors included a lot of fun and not so fun tidbits about the history of LEGO. For example, I knew, of […]
I’ve been a fan of the Fallout franchise for some time now. I have very fond memories of exploring the desolate outskirts of Washington D.C. with my well read super mutant companion, Fawkes. In Fallout: New Vegas, I would often take pleasure in observing the rolling desert from the dinosaur […]
The recent NYMG piece on Sam’s reaction to the new Cuphead trailer has inspired a lot of reaction of its own about the game, the animation style that influenced it, and what it means to critique a trailer, and so for the purpose of further discussion and analysis, we have […]
I watched the movie Tammy last night. It stars the fabulous Melissa McCarthy, one of my favorite all-time actors. I started thinking about how amazing to see a plus-sized actress for the first time. I know, I know, there are “plus-sized” actresses and models all over the place, right? Well, […]
We joked several times on the last episode of the podcast that this was going to be the year of the 4 at E3. We were all anticipating 2nds, 3rds, or 4ths of some series or another and that held up for the most part. One of the things that […]
Approximately two years ago in the wake of E3 2013 I wrote an article for the site about how I had once wanted to be a booth babe. For those who may be unfamiliar with the term, a “booth babe” is a woman, generally a model, who is hired by […]
As a LEGO fan and a gamer, I have enjoyed many of the LEGO video games, but LEGO Jurassic World has been my most anticipated LEGO video game by far. I like the superhero film franchises, like Batman well enough, and LEGO Batman 2 is thus far my all time […]
I am a sucker for a good spy story. And when those spies are also cyberpunk hackers, then all the better. So when I discovered that Invisible, Inc. is a game that features such hacker-spies, suffice it to say I was pretty excited to play it. Invisible, Inc., developed by […]
My post today comes from the conversations that have been happening around games for years, but have come to the fore again in the last couple of weeks with all of the discussion of representations of race (or a lack thereof) in CD Project Red’s The Witcher 3. We have […]
(We were asked by a friend of the site to run this personal essay, which we present here anonymously at the author’s request. Warnings for difficult subjects like sexual abuse and depression apply.) I was sexually abused at thirteen years old. The experience left me so damaged that I wasn’t able to […]