Playing at Leadership: Games, Gaming, & Leadership Studies
"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
Amid the toxic fallout from August in the gaming world is an idea that’s being championed by several feminist critics, including Leigh Alexander at Gamasutra, that the term “gamer” ought to be disposed with. On the one hand, I completely … Read More »
In a (hopefully) much less controversial post – my latest As-I-Play post on XCOM: Enemy Unknown is up over at TLF. In a side note, I’d originally titled the post “Stop, Don’t Shoot” when I started writing it the day … Read More »
Yesterday, Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency released a new Tropes vs. Women in Video Games video – part two of “Women as Background Decoration.” As per usual, people seem to either love it or hate it (and I’m pretty sure … Read More »
So recent events – of which I’m sure many of you are aware – in the games-journalism world have me thinking about the nature of sexism and how privilege corrupts the idea of social justice. Not only have people been … Read More »
The fifth installment of my As-I-Play XCOM series is up over at TLF. You can use the As-I-Play category tag to find the rest.
This week, Gamespot ran a piece on how Dontnod, the developer who made Remember Me and is currently working on Life is Strange, isn’t “trying to fix the industry” by featuring female leads. This struck me as odd on a … Read More »
Post number four on for my TLF As-I-Play series, focused on XCOM: Enemy Unknown. You can find posts 1-3 linked to here.
The third installment of my As-I-Play XCOM is up on TLF. Short version: I’ve now caved and started using save games to keep my squad from dying horrible deaths, mostly because I’m lazy and don’t want to try too hard. … Read More »
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how people who criticize games ought to just “make their own games” that say what they believe games should say. There are innumerable problems with this statement, some of them practical and some … Read More »
My second as-I-play post on XCOM: Enemy Unknown has gone live on TLF. I’m a few more hours into the game now, and have started to see my soldiers carving out niches in terms of their tactical abilities (which really … Read More »
Here’s the first “As-I-Play” post for XCOM: Enemy Unknown over at TLF. I haven’t gotten very far yet, so I’m sure my impressions will change – in other words, don’t start yelling at me because I haven’t fallen in love … Read More »
So one of the things I’ve been meaning to do for a while is play through XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Everything I have heard about said game is that it’s awesome, and I’m really hoping that all the hype (and the … Read More »
So I was one of many people disappointed by the ending of Mass Effect 3. I was not, however, one of the people for whom the ending “ruined” the entire series. Nor was I one of the people calling for … Read More »
My review of Dark Souls went up last night on TLF. For the sake of full disclosure, although if you actually read the title it should be obvious, I didn’t actually play Dark Souls. I watched. If I’d tried to … Read More »
(Note: Please read the last two words of the title as though you are George Takei, if only for your own personal amusement.) In what seems to be a followup to yesterday’s post about gender-customization and Ubisoft, today I get … Read More »