Batman: Arkham Knight has been pushed back for a second time. The game is now slated to be released on June 23, 2015 rather than June 2. As a consolation prize Rocksteady Studios has released some gameplay footage to hold us over…yeah right. Hurry up already, I want to play […]
Samantha Blackmon
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Ever since the announcement of the new Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U at E3 last year people have been pondering the existence of a female Link character. The usual suspects on the internet exploded. People swore their allegiance to a male Link and vowed to disown Nintendo […]
Episode 97: Let’s Talk About Let’s Plays (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about Let’s Plays and their potential as critical media.
The ways that I see my seemingly divergent areas of scholarly study constantly coming together still continues to amaze me after years of doing game studies work. This week in my Minority Rhetorics graduate seminar we had a great conversation about Gloria Anzuldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera and blaxpolitation. To keep it brief […]
There has been some interesting news coming out of GDC this year and it makes me sad that I wasn’t able to swing a visit to SFO, but next year…. Now that being said Todd Harper (Univ. of Baltimore) gave a talk at GDC yesterday where he talked about how […]
Episode 96: It’s All About Community: A Chat with Dave Hulegaard (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about games and narrative with sci-fi/paranormal author and Bioware Canada Community Manager, David Hulegaard (davidhulegaard.com).
Ok, the title is a little provocative, but this post might not be as outrageous as you might think. This week I’ve been re-reading Earnest Cline’s Ready Player One with one of my classes and it has really made me nostalgic for the games of my youth. I spent a […]
I love weekends, but not because I get to hangout out later or sleep longer in the mornings because there is none of that when you have young children. I love weekends because we can cheat on bedtime a little and do more of the stuff that gets cut short […]
Episode 95: Strange Choices: Discussion of Life is Strange (Episode One) (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about the first installment of DontNod’s episode game, Life is Strange. Spoiler alert, we talk about the entire episode.
My post for today was going to be specifically about Evan Narcisse’s article that talked about video games’ blackness problem, but as I sit down to write I find that it is only going to be tangentially connected. Video games do have a blackness problem…and so do video game players. […]
DontNod Entertainment’s new episodic game, Life is Strange is the studio’s answer to the variety of games coming from Tell Tale Games. Life is Strange is point and click with an original storyline and a young female protagonist, Max, who attending high school, Blackwell Academy, in a small town in […]
Not Your Mama’s Gamer is happy to welcome Ashley Barry as a guest writer to the site. She may be familiar to some as she was a guest on the podcast about a month ago. Listeners found her fun and engaging so we decided to ask her to come on […]
Since I’ve been going to lots of talks in my department that focus on people and their teaching philosophies (gotta love job search time) it’s been forcing me to think more about what it would look like if I gave a talk about about my own pedagogical teaching practices (don’t […]
Episode 94: #gamingconfessions: The Deep Dark Secrets of NYMG (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we divulge our deepest, darkest #gamingconfessions. Come and listen to ours and then feel free to share yours in the comments.
So, it’s no secret that Grim Fandango that is one of my favorite games ever. For years I would go back and replay sections of the game every year on the Day of the Dead. It was kind of a ritual. So when the announcement came that Double Fine was […]
For years we have been talking about learning to write code through game play with things like Gamestar Mechanic and Double Fine’s Hack and Slash (which requires you to change the code of the game’s assets in order to win), but the recent attention that folks like YouTuber SethBling has gotten […]