I finally got around to playing through Her Story last week, and as a result, I’ve been thinking a lot about what a game can be and what a game can do. Indeed, Alisha has already written previously about the fact that there is even discussion about whether or not […]
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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 […]
It’s starting to feel like fall, which always makes me want to watch scary movies and play creepy games. So, this morning I went looking for a spooky game on Steam, and I found Port of Call, a free to play indie adventure game. I like to play these quick […]
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 […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the Western approach to menstruation and how it factors into constructions of the ideas of (cis) womanhood, so it seemed like a happy bit of synchronicity when the Lammily doll’s new accessory popped up on my social […]
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 […]
So, I have some things to say about “resting bitch face.” For those of you who may have been living under a rock up until reading this post, “resting bitch face,” as Jessica Bennett explains in a recent New York Times piece, “I’m Not Mad. That’s Just My RBF.,” is […]
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 […]
There was a story recently stating that police and social services would be called on parents who let their children play Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and other Mature rated games. The recommendation also suggested that children should not have Facebook accounts. While I don’t agree with this recommendation […]
Alisha asked me something earlier this week, and since it’s something that’s been nagging at me since, I figured, hey, maybe it’s about time I write about it in an effort to explore the subject more deeply. The subject at hand is perhaps best introduced in the paraphrasing of Alisha’s […]
It seems strange that Shadowrun is only just over twenty-five years old; for me, Shadowrun, that dour, gritty marriage of cyberpunk and fantasy that so made William Gibson roll his eyes, feels eternal. I feel like the landscape has been littered with books and games in the Shadowrun universe for […]
Spoilers abound; content warnings as well for sexual violence and torture. There’s been a lot of discussion about the “male gaze” around Quiet, the mute female sniper in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and it’s a phrase we’ve employed here a number of times in talking about video […]
“If innate male aggression and dominance are at the root of the female oppression, then the feminist program would logically require either the extermination of the offending sex, or else a eugenics project to modify its character. If sexism is a by-product of capitalism’s relentless appetite for profit, then sexism […]
A few weeks ago, on a brutally hot day, I met someone I’ve admired for some time. I attended Felicia Day’s book signing at the Brookline Booksmith, an independent bookstore the Boston community holds near and dear. My stomach gurgled in a nasty way as I approached the table where […]
As I mentioned during our latest episode of the NYMG podcast, I’ve been playing Until Dawn, and the game has got me thinking about a few different things that I’d like to spend some time parsing through, like the game’s representation of things like gender and race, how it is that […]
Women have been long denied a voice in the gaming industry. This site, and others like it, have been fighting for years to establish a place where women’s voices aren’t only tolerated, but they are central to what it means to talk about games. Just because this site focuses on […]