AIP/TLF Dragon Age Inquisition: Making Friends and Influencing People (Four)
29
Jan
Part Four of my As-I-Play Inquisition is up on TLF! Don’t worry, Sera grows on me later.
Category Archives: Videogames
Does Gender Matter Behind the Pen?
27
Jan
So yesterday my attention was drawn to this opinion piece on Polygon about whether or not we can rely on men to write good female characters. I assume, by extension, that women must therefore be unreliable as authors of male … Read More »
AIP/TLF Dragon Age Inquisition: Not in the Hinterlands! (Part Three)
23
Jan
The next installment in my playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition is up over on TLF. I finally made it out of the Hinterlands (for the first time, although not the last), and moved on to smaller and better things.
Not the Problem You Are Looking For: “Nerds” are Not Game Culture’s Problem
22
Jan
Gaming culture – particularly in its pseudo-journalistic internet form – has problems. A lot of them. Some of them are problems it shares with every other culture on the planet and are a simple byproduct of being human. Some of … Read More »
[Redacted] – Games, Censorship, and Sexual Violence
15
Jan
One of the big news stories in gaming at the moment is about Australia’s refusal to issue classification to Devolver’s Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number due to sexual violence (link to Kotaku Australia). In Australia, media that “depict, express or … Read More »
AIP/TLF Dragon Age Inquisition – The Unending Hinterlands
12
Jan
My second As-I-Play for Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Unending Hinterlands – is up on TLF. The Hinterlands really do feel like they will never end. Ever. I will spend all the time in the Hinterlands. But not really. Although … Read More »
TLF/AIP Borderlands 2: Failure and the Enkindling (Part Seven)
2
Jan
New Borderlands 2 post over on TLF! More chasing Roland around Pandora!
Peace, Love, Social Justice, and the Inquisition
28
Dec
I’m a few days behind on this blog, but here’s my Christmas post – a podcast with A Play on Nerds! A little theater, a little Inquisition, and a whole lot of GamerGate.
TLF/AIP Borderlands 2: Diamond in the Rough (Six)
21
Dec
New post on Borlderlands over on TLF in which I get to meet Ellie. Ellie is awesome. And no, I haven’t given up on Inquisition. Double-fisting games for the win!
Bad Hair Day
1
Dec
So this post is actually a response to a comment on my first Dragon Age: Inquisition post on TLF. The comment reads as follows: Kristin I’ve been wondering how you feel about the overtly masculine representation of women in Dragon … Read More »
AIP/TLF No One Expects the Inquisition
25
Nov
I haven’t given up on Borderlands 2, but being as much of a fangirl as I am of BioWare, I had to put it on hold to pick up Dragon Age: Inquisition. Here’s the first As-I-Play post on Inquisition over … Read More »
Being Heard
19
Nov
So a few weeks back, the University’s PR firm inquired about taking a post from this blog and pushing it out – with minor modifications – to the world at large. This was, first and foremost, a minor source of … Read More »
Really Warm Fuzzies
18
Nov
So I recently returned from the National Women’s Studies Association conference where I moderated a fantastic panel on gender in games – looking at perceptions of players, perceptions of developers, journalism media, and pedagogy through a feminist lens. It was … Read More »
TLF: Memento Re-Mori – A Review of Monument Valley
12
Nov
In the midst of all the craziness this year so far, I did manage to play Monument Valley (on a plane coming back from San Diego), and I loved it, so I wrote up a review for TLF.
AIP/TLF Borderlands 2: Double-Header!
29
Oct
Due to having some surprise extra playtime this week, I’ve got two Borderlands 2 posts up on TLF. Parts Four and Five.