For the next phase of my research on game covers, I initially planned to look at this year’s releases, but found myself instead falling through an Internet black hole and browsing the listings for the next generation releases. After I was done calculating all the money I would need to […]
In honor of the hilarious and fascinating series of stories being told over at Cody Reimer’s blog, I’ve decided to share a part of my gaming history. If you haven’t seen his 5 part series on his first time playing EQ, you need to go to the beginning and check […]
Here’s a rundown of what you missed (or not) here at NYMG this week. Click through and read more. In 3 Ways the Video Game Community Is Not So Bad Alex gives a breakdown of some of the things that keep her active in the gaming community. In the first of two […]
Halloween is one of our favorite times here at NYMG. There have been so many video games in the horror genre that I, and I’m sure countless others, would consider some of the best games ever made. You have psychological thrillers like Heavy Rain, blood and guts carnage like Silent […]
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 the game’s mechanics and characterization, but its narrative as well. Let us spend our time first, so that you don’t have to waste […]
Episode 65: Spirit Walk With Me: The Grand Theft Auto V Spoilercast (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where all five of us come together to spoil GTAV in more ways than one. It’s a long episode but it is definitely worth it!!
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 […]
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 […]