Starscream vs. Rainbow Dash
Deceptacon Transformer Starscream faces My Little Pony Rainbow Dash in a battle to the death at Death Battle! Start about halfway through the video to get straight to the battlin’!
“Why I Still Play Spelunky”
“[It] strikes me as a bit counterintuitive that I would enjoy Derek Yu’s Spelunky as much as I do, while I remain estranged from Dark Souls. Aren’t both games super-cruel dungeon crawls, presenting maddeningly difficult challenges while swiftly and severely punishing the slightest error?” Jason McIntosh ponders the […]
Get Lamp
A trailer for the documentary on text adventure games and their designers, Get Lamp.
A Nasty Game
As part of the harassment of Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Sarkeesian, a guy from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario made a “game” where players could punch her. The Internet found the game’s designer and people talked to him on Twitter. Storify has more as does Gameranx. And She Was Disclaiming […]
“We Do Not Want A Page On This Topic”
TV Tropes has blocked all its pages concerning rape as trope in popular culture after Google threatened TV Tropes‘ ad revenue over “explicit content.” “If you’re thinking this ineffectual censorship just highlights how ridiculous and dangerous the pressure to rid our social vocabularies of potentially ‘creepy’ words like […]
“In Offence Re: Rape”
Mighty God King responds to game designer James Desborough’s essay, “In Defence of Rape.”
The Cultural Gutter 