Green Apple Candy Companion Cube
It’s a highly-detailed Companion Cube made of soap so you may live the complete gamer lifestyle.
Breaking Down Borders in Gaming
The Border House is a gaming website dedicated to “breaking down borders in gaming” and analyze games from a feminist viewpoint. This month they have stories on “The Women of Mortal Kombat“; “102 Quadrillion Unique Male Character Variants, 0 Female Characters“; and Turning the Tabletop: A Look at […]
The Unnameable Future
…or, Why We Are Confused About The Defining Terms Angrily Dismissed By Those Trying to Trademark Them Recently on her site GiantMice.com, “experience designer” Brooke Thompson posted an article entitled, “Transmedia Is Killing Hollywood Will Kill Transmedia.” In it, Thompson decries the fact that the new storytelling form […]
“Democracy is Death”
Quintin Smith at RockPaperShotgun talks to the CEO of the Goonfleet, the Mittani, about politics, metagame intrigue and failure cascades on Eve Online, the interstellar MMO. If you’re not interested in gamepolitik, there’s neat propaganda and space art.
The People’s Mario
Mario is a hero of the Proletariat.
Bioware Says, “Get Over It.”
A straight male gamer accuses Bioware of ignoring straight male gamers by having queer romance options in Dragon Age II. Bioware responds by talking about having options for everyone and straight male privilege. Seriously.
The Cultural Gutter 