Episode 148: It’s All Fun and Games: On Childhood, Play, and Video Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week are joined by early childhood education specialist Heather Bernt (@ece_nerd) of the Cause An Effect podcast and Lauren Woolbright, Assistant Professor of […]
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It was 6 years ago when I ran into a big, crude-talking, anthro-pomorphized penis shaped gun (in)appropriately named Johnson in Shadow of the Damned and I thought that video games had reached an all time low with offensive sidekick/weapons in video games…until now. I have to admit that I was […]
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 streams start in less than 7 hours and we all stoked to be playing games for such a great cause! As always we will be hosting one stream per shift on the NYMG Twitch channel, but you can check in to as many as you like using the handy […]
Video games give us the opportunity to explore some dark social and political ideas in a relatively safe space and to learn a bit about ourselves in the process. Are we willing to kill Nazis, sacrifice children, or leave loved ones behind to discover secrets about ourselves (even if we […]
Episode 147: On Streams and Things: A Chat With Girl Tribe Gaming’s Jen (@MotoOnXbox) (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). In this week’s episode we talk with Jen (@MotoOnXbox) co-founder and podcast host at Girl Tribe Gaming and streamer on Beam What We’re Playing: […]
When we were offered the chance to do a review of Klonk Games’ 3rd puzzle platform, Shift Happens (Xbox One/PS4/PC), I jumped at the chance because I thought that it would not only be a fun game to play with the kids, but also a fun game to play with […]
Episode 146: Sometimes We Play Games on Boards (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). In this week’s episode we talk about board games with our guest Tony Bushner. There’s also lots of talk of TCGs and Hearthstone because that is how we roll sometimes. […]
On Saturday, March 11, 2017 we are hosting our sixth Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as our charity. Since 1920 the ACLU has been fighting hate and bigotry in the United States. Since January the ACLU has been working diligently to […]
This week many (privileged) folks hit social media all aghast that Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced under Rule XIX which stipulates that “no Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming […]
Episode 145: Sometimes You Have to Kill Things: On Games and Self-Care (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). In this week’s episode we talk about games and self-care. We spend some time talking about the games we play to soothe our souls. We welcome […]
So my gaming has been quelled a bit by a freak accident. I somehow managed to take a sizable chunk of my thumb out with a bottle opener. I will spare you the gory details, but suffice it to say that even the ER nurse was impressed by my incredible […]
Episode 143: The F*ck You Line: Games and Emotion (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). In this week’s episode we talk about games and emotion using a chapter from Katherine Isbister’s book How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design. We talk about the emotions that […]
I have been playing a lot of Final Fantasy XV over the course of the last month. It’s a game that I was pretty sure that I wasn’t going to play (or like), but I rented it on a whim and I have to admit that I was pretty quickly […]
Today marks the 6th anniversary of Not Your Mama’s Gamer. Six years ago today we launched the site and broadcast with just me and Alex Layne. Over the course of six years, over a thousand posts, and almost 150 podcast episodes we have grown a lot. We now have a full staff […]
This semester marks the beginning of what I can only call my homeschooling journey with my kidlet after the closing of her project based learning school at the end of last year. This move has required my pulling out my experience as an elementary school teacher and combining it with […]