Last week The Evil Within released, a game I had some high expectations for the title, given that the design team design team includes the self-proclaimed “father of survival horror”, Shinji Mikami. However, while the game seems to tick off all the boxes (creepy hospital- check! Stoic, jaded hero- check! […]
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“If you have any kids, they’re going to die too. I don’t give a fuck. They’ll grow up to be feminists anyway.” [All quotes used can be found here. They are tweets shared by feminist game designer Brianna Wu that she received before fleeing her home] Saying you’re going to […]
During last week’s podcast I chose the Borderlands series as my “guilty pleasure” games. The series as a whole is pretty irreverent, the characters are exaggerated, and the games repeatedly present unabashedly non-serious and goofy situations. In many ways, the series reminds me of classic cheesy horror movies- bad, but […]
I’ll admit I was pretty excited to get my hands on this game. I was so excited that I got up early and went to Target right after they opened, and then I played it for most of the day. (Thank you whoever invented fall break!) It’s the perfect game […]
WARNING: This post may be a little bit spoilery for the Destiny storyline, but it’s definitely worth the read 😉 Unless you’ve been under a NYMG you know by now that Alex and I have been playing a lot of Destiny (Bungie 2014)…and I do mean a lot. I won’t […]
Grief is a funny thing. Caught up in the throes of loss, every day can feel like you’re living through Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. When we lose something precious, it’s not just an emotional blow. It’s a physical and mental attack that […]
Episode 87: On Guilty Pleasure Games; Or, It was Destin(y)ed to Happen (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) In this episode we talk about guilty pleasure games and what constitutes them.
It may be a little odd to think of Super Smash Bros. as a stand-alone, legitimate handheld title. Although I had bought into the hype long ago and had already mentally committed myself to buying it, I had my doubts about the new Super Smash Bros. for 3DS. Super Smash […]
“If your image of a computer programmer is a young man, there’s a good reason: It’s true,” begins this article on NPR. I hear this a lot, but I typically hear reasons for this that have nothing to do with the history of tech presented in this article. I usually […]
Last night I pulled out some readings for my classes- things which, despite being barely a decade or less old, are already slightly out of date classics by even academic standards on new media. I got a brief chuckle from Nakamura’s Cybertypes and Castronova’s Synthetic Worlds, both of which mention […]
On this week’s podcast, NYMG will be talking about our favorite “guilty pleasure” games. What games do you play over and over that you know are bad, but you can’t help yourself? Respond and we will talk about your game on the podcast!
This shit is about to get real. I’m feeling the feels this morning. I couldn’t even muster up enough rage to write Why It’s Sexist Vol. 3: Where Are the Statistics On That? which will be coming next week. This week I want to talk about one thing and one […]
Recently I had a conversation with someone who mentioned that game developers were afraid to incorporate more diversity – specifically, in this instance, female characters – in video games. He went on to explain that, in their eyes, the costs often outweigh the benefits for them. No matter what they […]
This statement was more of a plea than an imperative and it came from an unexpected source. Let me back up a bit and say that I have been playing a bit of Destiny multiplayer this week and I’ve been playing with the same folks because they don’t mind that […]
D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die is an episodic game exclusive to Xbox One. I played the Prologue, which was surprisingly short. I’m not sure it took me even an hour to get through. But, it does come with Episodes 1 and 2. In playing the Prologue, I didn’t feel like […]