One of the most fascinating things about writing for Not Your Mama’s Gamer is the audience that we attract. While I don’t have hard numbers/facts, I am almost positive that a majority of our readership are scholars/academics or people who stumbled on our site as an effect of being friends […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
220 posts
Power Hour Reviews are a new NYMG feature in which we spend one intense hour playing newly released games in order to get a sense not only of game mechanics and characterization, but narrative as well. Let us spend our time first, so that you don’t have to waste yours. […]
It’s easy to get lost in all the bad things in the gaming community. It seems like everywhere you look there are sexual assaults, exploitations, racism, and so on. We critique a lot on this site, but we do it for one reason: we love gaming. We love the community, […]
Here’s a rundown of what you missed (or not) here at NYMG this week. Click through and read more. In Researchers Are Doing It For Themselves, Sam talked about logistics and games research. Do we have to play games to write about them? Alisha came back with Looking from the Margins […]
Power Hour Reviews are a new NYMG feature in which we spend one intense hour playing newly released games in order to get a sense not only of game mechanics and characterization, but narrative as well. Let us spend our time first, so that you don’t have to waste yours. This […]
After having the relentless fashionista Gracie visit my town in Animal Crossing for the first time last week, it dawned on me how little clothing I owned to pass her rigorous checks. I was able to pull together enough flashy clothing to make it through and pass but in the […]
Every week as I rack my brain trying to figure out something new to discuss I always fall back to asking myself “what do I constantly think about when playing video games?” This question always circles back to the fact that I wish I was employed in the video game […]
When Gears of War first debuted in 2006, I hated the game — the controls felt wrong to me, the game bored me, and everyone I knew was obsessed with it, which made me hate it more out of sheer annoyance. So if you’d told me that seven years later […]
I play games…a lot of games, but games are what I research. When I am researching a game I play the whole game. I have to finish it. Don’t get me wrong, I may not 100% percent it and I may use a game guide (very rarely) if I get […]
Here’s a rundown of what you missed (or not) here at NYMG this week. Click through and read more. Nicole Marie covered the transphobic incident during the Microsoft presentation at the Eurogamer Expo. Alisha shared the data from her latest research project that looks at video game covers and the […]
In the last couple of months I have been thinking a lot about games research artifacts. I’m not even sure if that’s the best thing to call them but it’s what I’m running with for now. While conferencing this summer I had a handheld game system stolen from a hotel […]
Episode 64: Quiet, Woman!: On Silent Women in Video Games and On Underpants (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) Alex, Sam, and Sarah come together to consider Metal Gear Solid’s mute sniper, agency, and silent women in video games and on underpants. We had a few technical […]
Some things are standard to mention when critiquing and reviewing video games: characteristics that make the game innovative or unique, the fluidity of the interface and the level of the player’s control over the gameplay, its artistic design and the quality of its graphic elements, its replayability, the consistency of […]
As many of you know October 1st marked the launch of GTA Online, the multiplayer component to GTA V we’ve all been anxiously waiting to play. Unfortunately for many of us the online component was unplayable for most of the day Tuesday. I had intended on expanding my Power Hour […]
After spending some time earlier this year exploring the cover for Remember Me and other games featuring protagonists in comparable poses, I decided to do a little further study into game packaging, tallying the types of figures featured on best-selling game covers. I’ve seen a lot of game covers in […]
The convention season is drawing to a close and while it has been an extremely exciting season due to the new consoles coming out this year, it certainly wasn’t a season without its struggles. From Gamescom, to PAX Prime, to E3 the shortcomings of the video game industry in respect […]