"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
It is three days before election day, 2016, the 5th of November, and the US is facing a decision about whether to elect a reality show celebrity and businessman or a lawyer and career politician to the presidency. On the … Read More »
This week is “It Ends Now” week on my university campus. It is also the week that one of our students posted on Huffington Post about being sexually assaulted by another student and her belief that the administration of our … Read More »
I posted about this idea briefly right after the Brexit vote in June, but this past week I had something actually published about how Shakespeare–and Shakespeare’s Pericles–can help us think about the Brexit vote: “From Rome to Tyre to London” … Read More »
Today I am struggling to find words. Words are the things I use all the time. They are where I am most comfortable, most at home. I feel safe in words. Today I am struggling, not only to find words, … Read More »
This morning I was disappointed to see that the UK had voted to leave the EU. Disappointed, but not surprised. I say this not because I have any particular knowledge of modern UK politics or disillusionment about the opinions of … Read More »
Today’s TLF post touches on the ubiquitous problem of the female videogame character wearing metal bikini armor, talking specifically about the most recent Tropes vs. Women in Video Games episode (2.3), “Lingerie is Not Armor.” I’m usually somewhat disappointed by … Read More »
So since my last catching-up post, I’ve not been as prolific as I wish I could be, but se la vie. I haven’t been getting much videogaming in this summer so far, so I’ve only managed to put up part … Read More »
I am generally pretty jaded when it comes to things like politics, elections, and presidential candidates. I dislike most of them. I dislike some of them more than others, and those are the ones for whom I do not vote. … Read More »
I know we academics say this every year, but this spring was worse than most when it came to things like “getting things done” and “time,” which leads me to my mea culpa about not having posted on here for … Read More »
It’s the end of the semester, so I’m going to have to apologize for the dearth of posts here. I don’t have time to think, much less write all that much. That said, this week’s posts on TLF and NPC … Read More »
Here is the final post in the As-I-Play Bastion series on TLF. This post explains why I went from mostly being annoyed by Bastion to being a pretty serious fan. This is not a fun final post. It’s full of … Read More »
Today I finally got a chance to look over the ESA demographics report for 2015, and noticed that–quite to my surprise–the percentage of women gamers has actually gone down for the first time in many, many years. In 2014, the … Read More »
This week’s TLF post is my second-to-last in the As-I-Play Bastion series, and it marks the point when I began to realize just how political (and serious) a game Bastion actually is. If you follow me on NPC Gamer, you … Read More »
Like many other feminist scholars in games, when I saw the photos of the go-go dancers at a Microsoft after-party (thrown following a “Women in Gaming Luncheon”) I rolled my eyes, sighed, and thought “of course they did.” It’s a … Read More »
This week my final post in the Rise of the Tomb Raider As-I-Play series went up on TLF. My AIP posts tend to have a lot of frustrations in them, since those are very often the gut reactions we have … Read More »