This article spoilers for Dark Souls and Bloodborne in entirety. “Remember, there are no happy endings in Dark Souls.” Wise words from my partner that I rapidly chose to ignore almost as much as Rule 1 (Don’t Get Greedy). It’s not that I wanted to ignore these. I typically take […]
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When I wrote my first post for Not Your Mama’s Gamer three months ago, I didn’t anticipate writing a follow-up about Blizzard and representation so soon. I admit, my cynical expectation would have been that if I were writing a follow-up, it would be my continued criticism of their abysmal […]
The issue of mental illness in games has been an important topic in the games community for the past few years, though it has yet to really breach the world of game studies in academia. Here at NYMG we have published two pieces dedicated to the issue, and have mentioned […]
Episode 142: 2016: A Podcast Year in Relief (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). In this week’s episode several of us have chosen our favorite podcast moments from the last year and brought them together with our thoughts. It’s a great short(er) episode to […]
The holiday gift giving season is the time of year when I have to make one admission to myself (and this year to the world). I love toys. And I’m not talking about video games as toys, that’s a given. I’m talking about actual toys. Geek toys that stem from […]
[This article is about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and is SPOILER FREE] Star Wars has always been one of the driving forces of my pop culture background. My parents took me to see the Special Edition release of A New Hope when I was ten and since then […]
I’m not a completionist, as a rule. I don’t have to get all the achievements or find all the secrets or upgrade all the weapons just because. Sometimes these goals feel arbitrary, and frankly, I’ve got better things to do. But there are some goals I will pursue, lying in […]
This contains possible spoilers for The Last Guardian. It was like coming home. For a brief moment I looked around the room for my mother, or brother, or sister, or father. The people who had been around when I started the journey with these games. Shadow of the Colossus, a […]
As the end of the semester approaches, I’ve found myself buried up to my neck in final projects. While this has cut into the vast majority of my usual video game time, I was fortunate that one of the final projects involved some time in front of the screen. A […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The time when friends and family members start to send us frantic texts about games they should and shouldn’t be purchasing for the children on their holiday lists. Taking that into consideration I thought that I might create a kind of kid-safe wish […]
The following article may contain spoilers for Final Fantasy XV and its surrounding universe. So Final Fantasy XV came out last week. Honestly, by now, it should be no mystery that I’m probably one of the least excited people in the world about that. Though I tried to keep my […]
I’m currently only about halfway through the main storyline of Pokemon Moon, despite picking it up the day it was released. Most of this is due to my end of semester schedule, which is a series of late nights and endless cups of coffee, but I still have plenty of […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the significance of feminist science fiction for feminist games studies, the ways our scholarship is impacted by the forms we write about and research. And I’ve been continuing to think about the idea of criticism in both these fields—feminist criticism of science fiction […]
The Civilization franchise has long been one of my favorites. My character on the NYMG banner, for example, is a play on a character from the Civ series. I love it. So of course, I had to buy Civilization VI when it came out. I’ve been playing it for a […]
A note: I’ve only played through on low chaos with Emily so far, so while I’ve read about high chaos choices and Corvo playthroughs, I speak from the vantage of only intimately knowing my own adventure to reclaim Emily’s throne. Note also: spoilers here! When Emily was revealed as the […]
It’s somewhere around 2001 or 2002. My twin sister and I have asked for a Game Boy Advance and Pokemon Silver for Christmas. My dad is not too happy about it. He tells us that gaming systems like that will make us “antisocial” and that games are something that should […]