We Can All Calm Down: Rise of the Tomb Raider isn’t *really* an Xbox Exclusive
Gamescom 2014 is going on right now, which means Microsoft and Playstation are once again trying to outdo each other. In this competition, Microsoft seemingly had a huge weapon in its arsenal. They...
View ArticleGamescom Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain trailer demonstrates more...
Just as my love for anything drawn by Ross Campbell is well known (and Kevin Wada covers) so is my distaste for games touched by Hideo Kojima. It’s solely because of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes...
View ArticleCelebrities Speak Out on behalf of Sarkeesian’s latest Tropes vs. Women in...
When Anita Sarkeesian released the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games Kickstarter in summer of 2012, she most likely had no idea that she was about to start the misogynist storm of the century. However,...
View ArticleThreatening Anita Sarkeesian for Criticizing Misogyny Definitely Proves...
….not. As you know, Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency released another video in her Tropes vs. Women in Video games series this week. While it has been met with surprising support from various...
View ArticleLet’s talk about Ethics in Games Journalism
This is one of those weeks where I am quite content not to be reject the label of “games journalist” in favor of “academic-trained games critic”. This is due to the insane ethics tsunami that has hit...
View ArticleRounding Up the Sexist Cyclones of Gaming in August 2014
Whew. So it’s been an incredibly rough couple of weeks to be a lady in video games. Like, some of the events of this week make me want to throw my Playstation out the window and just give up on the...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy XV Director Talks Gender In Face of All Male Cast
If I was giving a lecture on the development of female characters in video games, the Final Fantasy games from Square Enix would be a key part of that discussion. In an era where many women in games...
View Article4 More Projects for Nintendo & the Playboy Playmates
Earlier this week Nintendo invited Playboy Playmates Amelia Talon and Pamela Horton to play the upcoming third-person shooter game, Splatoon. Five months ago Nintendo teamed up with Playmate Pamela...
View Article#HowOldRobot Definitively Proves Link is a Girl
Considering #HowOldRobot has been trending on all my social media platforms for the past day, I’m going to assume most of you have gotten the chance to play with it by now. For those that haven’t, the...
View ArticleLife is Strange and the “Perfect Victim”
By: Seth Brodbeck TW: Discussion of date rape and rape culture. Brief references to suicide. (Also: Spoilers for the first two episodes of Life is Strange, but I thought the above information was more...
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