So this week I finally played Super Mario Maker for the Wii U. I haven’t purchased the game for home because I have a ridiculous backlog of games that have come out in the last month and Fallout 4 and Tomb Raider are both looming for release next month. But […]
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Since before the launch of NYMG many of us here have been using our gaming to raise money for various charities. With the annual drop in temperatures comes the annual Extra Life Marathon to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. This is going to be my 6th consecutive year […]
So this semester one of the things that I have been doing (in my ample free time) is working on a diversity grant proposal to fund a tech/games/STEM based summer program for young girls of color. As I have been thinking through the minutiae of the project I have been […]
I am going to have to start with full disclosure and admit that I played the first two versions of Animal Crossing on the DS and 3DS with something that bordered on addiction. With the first iteration I played the game every night until the battery in my DS died […]
As a middle-aged (when did that happen) woman who plays games I often find myself in the situation where I am either called upon to “prove” my credibility as a gamer or simply ignored in gaming spaces. The former happens in both academic and non-academic spaces. Unfortunately in academic spaces […]
When the Skylanders game was first released I was kind of hooked. I played that game…a lot. I came to a new area that required a new element and immediately went out and bought new figures. I tried to get as many people hooked as I could so I didn’t […]
Episode 111: On Anita Sarkeesian: Ti**ies as Reward (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). This show is definitely not for the easily offended. Tonight we talk about Anita Sarkeesian’s latest mini-episode on women as reward in DLC and MGSV’s Quiet…because photosynthesis…and titties. Games Legend […]
In light of what’s been going on lately in the feminist community (and in the world as a whole) I’ve decided to revisit the Twitter rant that I went on almost 3 months ago. That rant was specifically about intersectionality and in light of the non-conversation that Roxane Gay recently had […]
Episode 110: Back to School Special: Learning With, Through, and Around Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). With school starting recently for all of us, we’ve been thinking a lot about games as educational spaces. In this episode we talk about lots […]
TW: I’m going to go ahead and tag this one for racism and racist imagery. This week a little bit of hell broke loose in the serious games space that quickly circulated to the mainstream. Serious Games Interactive tweeted about a game that they were playing, Playing History 2: Slave […]
So I’ve been playing a lot of Fallout Shelter lately. Consoles games have fallen pretty much by the wayside as I have spent more time on campus and have come home exhausted. This is not an excuse for playing mobile games, but rather an explanation for why I have found […]
We have our newest guest writer and podcaster, Kishonna Gray! Kishonna is an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. She is also the Founder & Director of the Critical Gaming Lab housed in the School of Justice Studies. Kishonna completed her PhD in 2011 at Arizona […]
Recently there have been a couple of different articles that have addressed the way that girls and women interact with technology and how their experiences are affected by their interactions in games (via voice chat) or the ways that they perceive or are perceived by the community. As the mother […]
For five years Alex and I have been participating in the Extra Life marathon and raising money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in Indiana and Minnesota. And for me this year will be no different. I will beg for pledges and sit in a room for 24 hours playing some of […]
People often ask me why I maintain a cache of nigh ancient game consoles when all of the old games are now available on emulators or virtual console. It might be the archivist in me, it might be the hoarder in me, or I very well be a gaming snob, […]
I remember sitting up way past bedtime playing King’s Quest when it originally released. I was just starting high school and it was one of the first actual graphics based computer games that I played. I played the game far into the night (many nights) trying to figure out where […]