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 […]
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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 […]
Episode 164: On Minstrelsy and Mayhem: A Conversation with Yussef Cole (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we talk to games journalist motion designer, Yussef Cole (@youmeyou) about his lastest research and article in Unwinnable, “Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation“, […]
We’re always on the move! This weekend Alisha and Bianca presented “Feminist Game Design: Creating Change, Crafting Inclusive Spaces” and Bianca presented “Feminist Ludus: Intersectional Methodologies in Feminist SF Criticism and Feminist Game Studies” (respectively) at the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference in Baltimore, MD. Sam was a guest on […]
The concept of nostalgia is a huge one for Nazis these days. They seem to all want to make America great “again” as if it has ever been so great for those of us spend our days fighting oppression of one sort or another (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia) or just […]
For me I think it all started with Civilization: Beyond Earth and by it I mean that colonialism saturation point with games. To be honest most games are tales of white saviors and colonialism, but that particular iteration of Civilization was one that I had been anxiously awaiting since it was […]
Our work at NYMG has always been in service of making games better for everyone. This includes the community that loves games, the industry that makes them, and the academics that talk about them incessantly (myself included). Some people don’t like the way we go about this. In particular, some […]
Recently I have found myself having lots of heated discussions about racial representation in video games and the importance of paying attention to the history behind these representations (*cough* Cuphead *cough*) and in some cases it has been a bit of an uphill battle, but it’s not new. It’s the […]
Jim Norton wrote in Time Magazine that “Americans have collectively become the most hypersensitive group of whining milksops ever assembled under one flag.” It’s easy to see why he thinks this. Go to a lot of popular blogs, and you’ll see that people are pissed off. Though, “people” is perhaps […]
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 […]
Critical Video Analysis: Cuphead, Fleish & Cherry, and the Influence and Impact of Classic Animation. By Samantha Blackmon and Alisha Karabinus. Originally posted on June 19, 2015; reprinted at Kill Screen June 26, 2015. Can You Kill a God? Rhetoric and Deicide in Destiny: A Critical Let’s Play. By Samantha […]
Episode 190: It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: Co-Op Gaming in the Age of Online (Click to download, or find us on iTunes, Spreaker, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Spotify). This week we talk about the joys and problems of playing games together in co-op mode. The struggles of playing games offline and on and, of […]