I hadn’t had a chance to get back to State of Decay 2 for a while, but recently I booted it back up and picked up my community where I’d left off. Right now, I have nine people and only two of them are clearly visually coded as white. In […]
This week Alisha and Samantha sit down and talk about PAX West, salty gamers, and whatever else comes to mind.
This week we are joined by Melissa Boone and Jerome Hagan, Team XBox User Researchers who focus on Minecraft, online safety, and Gaming is For Everyone.
This game packs an emotional punch and easily carries on the legacy of Life is Strange’s heavy themes and tenuous emotional choices.
Families belong together and this Saturday we come together as humans and gamers to @supportKIND (Kids in Need of Defense) with our latest Gaming 4 Good charity marathon. We’re running shifts starting at 12 a.m. EST on 6/30/18. Please come support, signal boost, and donate if you can. We can […]
Episode 174: The Shape of Things to Come: Our Favorites From E3 2018 (Click to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). With E3 ending this week Alisha and Sam have come together to talk about the games that they are most looking forward to in the coming year. […]
Episode 173: Hate-Play and Hashtags: A Conversation with Megan Condis (Click to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we have a conversation with Megan Condis, author of the new book Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture. We chat about toxicity and hope in […]
In the United States June is National LGBTQi+ Pride month. This month we celebrate our history and recommit to not only celebrating that history, but making strides forward in equality for all. It is because of this that we have chosen the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as our charity to […]
I recently watched two TEDTalks. The first was titled ‘Why tech needs the humanities’ (2017) and was presented by Eric Berridge, the cofounder of BlueWolf, an IBM company. The second was ‘Teach arts and sciences together’ (2002) presented by Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut. While neither are exclusively […]
Episode 172: Regular People in Irregular Circumstances: A Conversation with Undead Labs (Click to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we are joined by Brant Fitzgerald and Geoffrey Card of Undead Labs as we talk about the zombie survival game, State of Decay 2. This time around […]
This review contains some mild State of Decay 2 spoilers. I’m not always the fastest player. I like to take my time and explore, and if there are side quests, I will stay distracted forever, following tiny threads and traveling the countryside. I love scrounging things, too, picking flowers, finding […]
At first, I didn’t think I would like State of Decay 2. If you’ve spent any time around here at all, you know the depths of my obsession with the original State of Decay. I put in hundreds of hours, most spent in the Breakdown DLC, building and rebuilding my little patch […]
Subaeria (Illogika, $14.99 USD) is rougelike action puzzler in which you play a teenaged protagonist named Styx who is prone to hacking her VR game unit to get more time online. The problem with that is that Subaeria is set in a time when all crime is punishable by “cleansing” […]