This past weekend during the Super Bowl thousands took to Twitter to address their concerns over representation in advertisements during the various commercial breaks that are arguably as watched as the game itself. Each tweet called out various offenses that a number of companies were guilty of – lack of […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
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Episode 71: The Unconventional Dwarf: An Interview with Tof Ecklund and Rhiannon Reyes (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk to Tof and Rhiannon about their new book on creating non-traditional/non-standard characters in Role Playing Games and anything else that we can think […]
I’ve been playing a lot of Diablo III lately, and not just out of guilt from pre-ordering it when it first came out and never really getting into it. For many reasons that I won’t bore you with here, I chose to explore it as one of three primary case […]
Broken Age, Tim Shafer and Double Fine’s point-and-click adventure became available to all last month on Steam. Broken Age began as a Kickstarter campaign under the code name of Double Fine Adventure, and the game has received reviews that suggest Broken Age conjures nostalgic memories for those who have played […]
**Triggers: sexual assault, sexual harassment** Recently, a screenshot of an explicit conversation between Josh Mattingly, a video game reporter, and “Alice,” a game industry worker made some pretty big waves. The two had met a couple times at professional event and Mattingly friended Alice on FB. Immediately after she accepted, […]