The convention season is drawing to a close and while it has been an extremely exciting season due to the new consoles coming out this year, it certainly wasn’t a season without its struggles. From Gamescom, to PAX Prime, to E3 the shortcomings of the video game industry in respect […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
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In the past few weeks I have played both Saints Row IV and Grand Theft Auto V. Numerical markers aside these games have a lot in common. Both of them involve crime (and lots of it), both build characters based on horrible stereotypes, both drip sexism, and both a super […]
As an extension of the previous post I wrote about regarding feminist-friendly cartoon choices and considering that, in my experience anyway, fans of video games and Japanese anime seem to overlap, I would like to offer some suggestions for navigating the wide and extensive world of anime. Much like any […]
Power Hour Reviews are a new NYMG feature in which we spend one intense hour playing newly released games in order to get a sense not only of game mechanics and characterization, but narrative as well. Let us spend our time first, so that you don’t have to waste yours. […]
A little disclosure here: I haven’t bought Grand Theft Auto V. I’ve never been a huge fan of the franchise (I can take ’em or leave ’em), and my husband and I are so busy these days that neither one of us has had much time for games anyway. I’ll […]
**spoilers** (up to 60% of the game) Playing GTA V, you expect a few things: racism, sexism, violence. Buying a copy is a kind of tacit agreement that you will be getting offended some time in the near future. I don’t think anyone expected respectful portrayals of women (there […]
Episode 63: A Cornucopia of Topics: We’ve Got Plenty to Talk About (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) Join us as we talk about the resurgence of the argument that violent games make violent people as well as our early thoughts on Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft […]
Power Hour Reviews are a new NYMG feature in which we spend one intense hour playing newly released games in order to get a sense not only of game mechanics and characterization, but narrative as well. Let us spend our time first, so that you don’t have to waste yours. […]
Hey, welcome to our community. You have definitely figured out by now that we are feminists, but I would argue five distinctly different kinds of feminists. Women that have been shaped by our personal, educational, and professional experiences just like everyone else. And for that reason we welcome everyone into […]
Here at Not Your Mama’s Gamer we spend a lot of time talking about the unfortunate side effects of being a woman passionate about the video game industry. Obviously for good reason, there are constant struggles in our quest for equal AND correct representation in video games that need to […]
Surely you’ve heard Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser’s take on Grand Theft Auto V’s three male protagonists by now: “The concept of being masculine was so key to this story.” And they can’t just shoehorn anything in, you know. It’s got to work with the narrative. They had a story […]
Trigger Warnings: Rape, rape culture, lotsa swearing. [a great, comprehensive recap of this situation can be found here: http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-penny-arcade-a-timeline] About a week and a half ago, the Dickwolves controversy reared it’s ugly, ugly head again when Gabe said in an interview that he wishes he wouldn’t have pulled the Dickwolves […]
So, this week I went against my better judgement and rented Saints Row IV. I got drawn into the hype. I heard a million other podcasters talk about how it was just plain, old “stupid fun”. And this was the kind of week that I needed some good old fashioned […]
As October draws ever nearer, an influx of horror games has begun to hit the market in an attempt to fill the creepiness quota so in demand during the Halloween season. Though the settings and contexts differ from game to game, the asylum, particularly the abandoned and decrepit asylum complete […]
With the passing of PAX Prime, Gamescom, and San Diego Comic Con it’s time to once again assess where the new consoles stand. Microsoft has reneged on a few of the options they discussed at E3 and Sony has introduced a few additional goodies. Video game journalists and people in […]
I went into Killer is Dead prepared to love it, to laugh, and to defend the silly gigolo missions as just part of the package. I’d seen the screenshots; I knew how ridiculous they were, how objectifying, but I told myself, it’s just Suda, it’s just Japan, you know how […]