E3 is this week and most companies go for the wow factor in their conferences, but honestly, it’s been lacking that magical feeling we gamers love to have when new things are announced. Ubisoft tried to amp things up at their conference by introducing attendees to a trailer of Far Cry […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
83 posts
I am a mediocre Mass Effect fangirl at best. I quit the first game because the controls and the damned planet scanning were just too friggin’ painful. I plowed into ME2, with its improved control scheme, with gusto that only died down a bit, and I powered through ME3 with […]
Episode 35 : “I’m Sexist and I Know It: Sneaky Sneaky Till the Soapbox Comes Out” (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where Sam, Alex, and Nicole record in one space and have drunch (aka drinks and lunch). They each take a turn with […]
Despite how problematic I find Bogost, most of the time, he is right about some stuff. In Persuasive Games, Bogost writes, “video games deploy more abstract representations about the way the world does or should function” (100). I’ve written several blogs about how historicity functions in games like Civilization, focusing […]
A recent presentation at PAX East talked about the harassment gamers face online. In it, the posit three cardinal rules for women who want to play in online gaming environments. They are: Don’t choose a distracting name—as in, one which will remind male players that women actually exist Don’t choose […]
We’ve talked about sexual harrassments and death threats in our community a lot around here at NYMG. Alex Layne has a couple of folks about death threats against women in the Open Source community and the fact 3 in 10 women are sexually assaulted at tech conferences. We covered the […]
Episode 34 : “Shut Up and Take It!: Death Threats and the New Industry Norm” (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where Alex Layne narrowly escapes death herself and we talk about death and assault threats against women (and men) in the industry. It’s finals […]
I have finally gotten around to editing my video and adding voiceover from my portion of the CCCC Access Happening. I recorded the portion of the talk that went with the video and was actually scripted. There was an introductory bit that was done extemporaneously, but that is not included. […]
For a huge portion of my life, I had fit the stereotypical role of the “hardcore gamer”. I remember reserving Super Mario Bros. 3 just for rental because of the footage I’d seen in the movie The Wizard. I pre-ordered the PS1, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, while trading for […]
Episode 33 : “Vagina Blocked!: On Sex, Games, and Community Supported Developers” (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) More on feral children and an interesting discussion between male led and female led community funded Kickstarter project Links of Note: GOG CEO Hates the Steam Sales BBB […]
So I’ve been thinking about my posts lately, plus a comment a friend made to me, and I realize that a lot of what I do is talk about talking about video games rather than talking about the video games themselves. It led me to think more about the role […]
I am a lesbian and a gamer and I make no excuses for either of those things. It has been a very, very long time since I have tried to hide either of them. I am unapologetic though I get disapproving looks from most folks for one or the other […]
Google Maps 8 bit is coming and it’s going to be an NES exclusive. See the video and then head over to Google Maps to try it out!
Heads up readers, there will be a lot of SPOILERS in what will be my first (and probably least popular) post on NYMG as I’m going to try and convince you that the Mass Effect 3 endings weren’t as horrible as the gaming world seems to think and that changing […]
Episode 32 : “No Man? No Problems?: Female-Female Character Interactions in Games” (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where Sam calls other people’s children feral and we talk about interaction between female characters in video games. There is more talk of Mass Effect 3, […]
I just gave a talk at CCCC’s about the project Sam and I did on female video game podcasters. I talked about the research we had done, what we found, and what I hoped our community of academics could do with the information we found. There are two (sort of […]