Guess which heroes you start out with – and guess which ones cost 20 Dollars to play. Having some more free time on my hands, I decided to try out the new free to play Action-RPG Marvel Heroes. My impression is that the game suffers from exactly what happened to
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Dead Wild Roses: Damsel in Distress Part 2 – Anita Sarkeesian
Ms.Sarkeesian continues her video series about the misogyny prevalent in video games. Filed under: Feminism, Gaming Tagged: Anita Sarkeesian, Tropes vs Women, Video Games
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Standing Up Against the Systemic Misogyny in our Culture – Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012
Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012 lets the world see that there are people willing to stand up and fight against the misogynistic status-quo. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Anita Sakeesian, Feminism, Patriarchal Backlash, Video Games
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Call me Ducky
The Nipper has the Best Ideas Ever Invented. He said, last night on the way to rehearsal, “you know what would be cool, would be if they made a Call of Duty ™ game that’s age-appropriate for kids and they called it Call of Ducky. And you’d play this duck
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Creepy Cull of Female Protagonists – Jimquisition
No objectification going on here Ms.Facetitsass. None at all. Embedding in wordpress sucks. Thus, I am only able to provide the link to the video I would like you to watch. Jimquisition, featured on the pop culture gaming site The Escapist, puts crass behaviour and bombast squarely in the centre
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damsel in Distress – Tropes Vs Women in Video Games
Oh, those women, they just want to have power over men. Evil feminists that don’t see the FACT that men and women are treated equally now… Pardon me while a expunge the neurons used to formulate those sentences… *splork*… Ahh…all better. Like it or not, video games are a
Continue readingArt Threat: Blown Up: Gaming and War
Let’s face it: shooting stuff is fun – in video, that is; but it can also be ethically complicated. Gallery 101’s current exhibition Blown Up: Gaming and War, brings to the conventions of video gaming the complexities of art, activism and critical commentary. I am not exactly a typical gamer
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Video Games – Boy George – Directed by Mike Nicholls
The process of joy on the woman’s face when she first meets her man is priceless in this video. Thank you, Angel Rose and Cesare Polini (playing the featured couple), Boy George, Lana Del Rey, and Mike Nicholls.
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Video Games – Boy George – Directed by Mike Nicholls
The process of joy on the woman’s face when she first meets her man is priceless in this video. Thank you, Angel Rose and Cesare Polini (playing the featured couple), Boy George, Lana Del Rey, and Mike Nicholls.
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Video Games – Boy George – Directed by Mike Nicholls
The process of joy on the woman’s face when she first meets her man is priceless in this video. Thank you, Angel Rose and Cesare Polini (playing the featured couple), Boy George, Lana Del Rey, and Mike Nicholls.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We are post-feminsim, post-patriarchy and post-racism…honest.
Trigger warning for Language, Homophobia and Racism and violence in general. This is by no means a scientific finding. This isn’t even a good sample, but lets background that for bit and look at what is going on in the video. How many times do you hear the word “Bitch” or “Fag” or even more […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: My Flippant Love Affair – With Video Games
I hate to say it folks, but video games have not been improving as of late. Certainly the exceptions being the gratuitous eye candy and special effects, but as far as things that make you sit back and go, “Wow that was fantastic!” have been few and far between.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Hour of The Gun
This article from The Edmonton Journal offers an interesting explanation of why ‘black guns’ are growing in popularity amongst gun ‘hobbyists’. Were I a conspiracy-minded individual (which, of course, I am not), I might wonder about the relationship between two of the major industries discussed within. Recommend this Post
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