It’s difficult to find provocative topics to write about each week when I am drowning in dissertation work. Right now I’m working on my literature review, which though often a throwaway chapter, is crucial to my argument. The lack of overlap between important fields, and the ways I suggest we […]
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Episode 51: Don’t Psychoanalyze Me: A Romantic Valentine’s Day Episode (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk about all of the usual stuff and some deeply twisted stuff under the guise of talking about our three favorite relationships in video games. Links […]
I think it’s important to recognize the connections between the video game industry and other STEM fields. Too often video games get forgotten because they’re, well, games. They are play. They aren’t serious. (All of which of course is contentious.) Brilliant work is being done about the gender inequities in […]
Nicole’s post on video games and art has brought up something for me that is a bit of a sore spot. And that would be Jonathan Blow’s latest whack-a-doodle (yes, that is the technical term) rant on Twitter about “art” games (defined seemingly as those made by him) vs. AAA […]
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 […]
Bear with me for a bit while I get to video games. We need a little context here. I remember watching a prime time news show back in 2004 where “well trained” Korean teens exclaimed that the Americans were Nazis, GW Bush was Hitler, and that America must be destroyed […]
Episode 50: We’re Golden!: Celebrating Episode 50 With Meagan Marie (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) Our 50th episode where we are joined by Meagan Marie, community manager for Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics). Meagan she talks about her work at Crystal Dynamics, in the industry […]
Alright alright, everyone calm down. Just because Sony left us an eerie message on the PlayStation blog yesterday doesn’t mean that we’re getting the announcement we think we are. If you haven’t seen the video yet watch it here: Yup, a 45 second video filled with a whole lot of […]
“Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers” by Emilio Castilla is a report done in 2008 at MIT to explore the literature on merit-based reward systems. Castilla uses huge amounts of data that “empirically establishes the existence of this bias and shows that gender, race, and nationality differences continue to […]
Let me start out by saying that I have the cutest kid in the world (and while the little girl with the test tubes is cute, she is not mine but the rest of the images are of my Peanut). If you have kids I am sure that you think […]
Episode 49: The Choices We Make: The Walking Dead (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we totally spoil TellTale Games’ The Walking Dead (all 5 episodes). We discuss the choices that we made in each episode and work through our own WD issues. We’ve all […]
Sometimes my brain works much like the horrible Bing search engine commercial where people jump from tangential topic to tangential topic based on keywords and loose connections. Today’s post comes from just such an idea jump that I experienced today. It started when a student in my Gender and Technology […]
In the wake of the national debate over whether or not violent video games make players more prone to violence, I wanted to discuss a different, more happy side effect of video games; the bonding effect. Anyone who has played a game can attest that there is a deep social […]
Update 3: After a restart, steam used my “cloud” save to replace my local save. Which deleted all of my progress for the entire day. So my journey ends here for now. I got to episode 3, but am back at the very beginning. So, I’m done. Unless anyone knows […]
Hey everyone, we here at NYMG decided to give you all a special treat this Sunday. Starting at 10am eastern, nymg-er Alex Layne will be playing The Walking Dead from start to finish, complete with video stream, audio updates, and blog reflections. This will be an all day experience, so […]
So, it looks like it bears saying again. Parents should be playing with their children. Not just when they are little and cute and want to play tea party, Legos, or pirate fairy princess, but when they are (pre)pubescent and cranky. When you really start to wonder if they were […]