Mansions of Madness is far from the most complicated game I’ve played (I’ve played Food Chain Magnate, ok), though unboxing it was still very intimidating. I’ve certainly never been a “minifig” person, and I know there are those who love that kind of stuff. What most intrigued me about the […]
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Representation matters. This is something that we have said countless times. It matters in games, in game development teams, in games communities, and in the world at large (especially in our current political environment). Over the course of the last couple of months we have spent several podcast episodes talking […]
Episode 156 Pizza Party is the Best Party…Oh, and Our Video Game Summer Run Down (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we chat about what we’ve been playing this summer and what we are going to be playing to close the […]
In the 50th year of the journal of College Composition and Communication, in 1999, Jacqueline Jones Royster and Jean C. Williams began their essay “History in the Spaces Left: African American Presence and Narratives of Composition Studies” with a statement they call aphoristic, but that remains an important reminder we […]
Perception (2017) by The Deep End Games is above all else a psychological horror game about connection. And the game itself begins with one woman’s search for connection. Cassie, the protagonist, is a blind woman who has been drawn to a house by dreams about the house, a rope, a ticket, […]
I’ve been trying to get caught up on some reading this summer, and one of the series that I’ve been digging into the past couple months is that of The Expanse. It’s a science fiction series by James S. A. Corey, which is actually the pen name under which two […]
Episode 155: Rebooting Boyhood and Playing Games For Girls: A Conversation with Carly Kocurek (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we have a conversation with Carly Kocurek, author of Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade (2015) and Brenda Laurel: Pioneering […]
Friday the 13th: The Game (Gun Media) is a third-person horror, survival game where you either play as a camp counselor trying to survive or as Jason trying to kill all of the camp fornicators. I was ecstatic to see this game as I recall playing the 1989 version on Nintendo. Being an […]
The fifth and final season of Orphan Black began a couple weeks ago. It’s a show about human clones—about how being a clone might impact both one’s personal identity and one’s relationship to others (that is, one’s potential roles as sister, daughter, mother, partner). But more than that, the show […]
Episode 154: 2017 E3 Wrap Up: What We Loved and What We Didn’t (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). As a follow up to episode 153, this week we talk about what we saw and played at E3 as well as talking […]
Episode 153: Champagne Wishes and E3 Dreams (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week in the podcast we talk what we want to see (or not) at E3. A good conversation between Sam and Alisha about upcoming games and what the future holds […]
Recently I took a survey about places in games and it’s been on my mind ever since. The questions were all about my favorite places in games, but the more I consider the topic, the more I think about important places in games rather than my favorite places – the […]
I know in a previous post I set out to review the top 30 board games ala Board Game Geek, starting with Food Chain Magnate. I have to deviate from that a little bit because of a new game I tried and fell in love with at a game night […]
A few months ago, I wrote about A Normal Lost Phone and the layered experience of inhabiting another through the use of their phone as an empathy device, so when I stumbled upon another game that used a similar approach, I picked it up immediately. But while A Normal Lost […]
Episode 152: Then is Not Now: On Nostalgia in Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week in the podcast we talk about nostalgia in and around video games. We also talk a lot about playing games with our kids because we […]
This week I have been playing Pokemon Moon again.I’ve had the game since launch, but I tend to play Pokemon games in bits. A few hours here, a few days here. Whenever the mood strikes me and I feel like catching some pocket monsters. This week I started playing again […]