Playing at Leadership: Games, Gaming, & Leadership Studies
"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
A conversation on twitter today between friends made me start thinking more seriously about being a woman and being a geek and gamer – and also being an academic. Recently, I’ve seen a spate of articles on “fake geek girls” … Read More »
This is my second – and possibly last – post on Fable III, mostly because I couldn’t actually make myself continue through it. My TLF review – which includes a stream-of-playthrough-commentary – is up, but I’d like to talk a … Read More »
So this piece on Kotaku from Stephen Totilo today made me stop and think about the fact that one of the biggest pushes in gaming from the feminist perspective is to have more games with female protagonists, or at least … Read More »
Today’s post is a review of Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine, over on The Learned Fangirl. One of the fun things about Monaco is that it’s co-op, and that’s something that we tend to talk much less about in videogaming, … Read More »
So I’ve recently started playing Fable III. There are many reasons I hate the game so far, although I’m going to give it the proverbial college try for a little while longer before I give up completely (also, probably going … Read More »
Today Gamers Against Bigotry shared a story by a male gamer about what it was like to log in to his wife’s multiplayer account. It contains most of what you’d expect – the male players identified the gamertag as female, … Read More »
So a couple days ago, Kotaku posted this story about a boy who has been in prison for three months after making a poorly-thought-out comment on Facebook following a League of Legends game. If you don’t want to read the … Read More »