1000 Days of Syria
For a brief period after the onset of the Syrian Civil War, journalist Mitch Swenson was there, hitching rides with Syrian rebels and rubbing elbows with smugglers. Then, he came home to the US to...
View ArticleLGBT VGC
The fight for gay rights isn’t limited to real-world spaces. There’s a swelling movement for greater diversity and LGBT representation in video games that’s about to reach a national tipping point.
View ArticleCreating Games For Journalism
We as journalists can learn a lot from video games. They can help players explore unfamiliar worlds and experience stories, almost literally, through the eyes of another person. Designed well, video...
View ArticleGood Old Games’ DRM-free version of Steam
Good Old Games is coming out with their own version of Steam (or uPlay, or Origin, or…). Sounds like it could be an interesting alternative/addition to the gaming arena, especially since they promise...
View ArticleThe ‘Foreign’ Hope
A transgender Canadian succeeding in the hypermasculine Korean-dominated subculture of professional Starcraft players.
View ArticleGamelectical Materialism
Class Struggle was a board game designed in 1978 by a New York professor to teach players about Marxism.
View ArticleWomen are so hard to animate
So, Assassin’s Creed: Unity is going to have four-player co-op. None of the characters available, however, are female. “It was on our feature list until not too long ago, but it’s a question of focus...
View ArticleLevel 99 Capitalist
It hasn’t been long since the marketers of gritty and politically inept titles had a go at spinning their ineptitude as ‘thematically brilliant, I’ll believe you’ll find‘, even if nine times out of ten...
View ArticleThis is Phil Fish
This video is not about defending Phil Fish. Or about setting him on fire. A case study in internet celebrity (via MeFi).
View ArticleBecause Reasons
“Female pixels can only be harvested from special flowers that grow on the moon.”
View ArticleUlitsa Dimitrova
In Ulitsa Dimitrova, you are “Pyotr, a seven year old homeless boy who lives in St. Petersburg, who’s a chain smoker and has to beg to get cigarettes all the time. And if you stop playing, things come...
View ArticleDon’t Worry
There are no hard and fast rules of what you must or must not put in your game. All I’m saying is that, as an adult human being, you have to accept responsibility for the work you produce.
View ArticleWomen Are To Hard To Animate Jam
in the just-finished ‘women are too hard to animate’ jam. [more more more more more more]
View ArticleDiversity Question
“We need the diversity question to keep getting asked, and we need to be listening for complicated answers.” A long and well-reasoned roundup of some of the recent discussion around diversity as...
View ArticleSquaresoft in the head (sustained softness)
Unfortunately I’m forced to remove my posts and pages related to the popular Final Fantasy Type-0 fan translation project. (Previously on GF)
View ArticleInterhate
Zoe Quinn talks (at Cracked.com, of all places) about 5 Things I Learned as the Internet’s Most Hated Person, in the wake of the idiot-hatefest that has come to be known as hashtag-gamergate. Did I do...
View ArticleRevenge of the Nutters
In the continuing saga that is #GamerGate, Intel today pulled its ads from Gamasutra under pressure from activists involved in Operation Disrespectful Nod. Gamasutra’s response. BoingBoing: Intel pulls...
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