"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
So as #GamerGate continues to fizzle on the internet, despite its disappearance from much of mainstream Twitter and news, it’s becoming increasingly clear that what GGers are attempting to do is not hold gaming journalism accountable for corruption or shoddy … Read More »
The first post in a new As-I-Play series has gone live over on TLF: this time, I’m playing through Borderlands 2! This is one of those games that I kept considering every time I thought about getting a new game. … Read More »
And my final As-I-Play XCOM: Enemy Unknown post is up over on TLF.
So today a friend tweeted about a piece in the New Statesman on gaming criticism… sort of. The piece, entitled “Criticism vs. Reviews: Sometimes it’s OK to Care Only About How a Game Plays” by Phil Hartup, makes certain highly … Read More »
And a little more XCOM over on TLF… almost done!
So my most recent As-I-Play of XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Part Seven – Girl Fight!) is up on TLF. It’s getting close to the end… Coming up in a couple weeks, Borderlands 2… I’m looking forward to it!
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 »
I just read the best summary of this week in gaming that I’ve seen thus far by Chris Plante on Polygon: Two groups are at opposite ends of this moment: One side has folded its arms, slumped its shoulders while … 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 »
To be perfectly clear, this is not a post about games or gaming or the gaming community, although it is something that happens in the gaming community and could therefore be applicable. Mostly, it’s about something that happens when I … 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.