Interview: Life online can be brutal, especially for women. In this For the Record
segment, NPR’s Rachel Martin talks with game developer Brianna Wu,
biologist Danielle N. Lee and writer Mikki Kendall, about their
experiences being harassed and threatened on the Internet.
News: World of Warcraft's subreddit taken offline in protest, controversy flares
Review: If you’re a fan of old school D&D RPGs and Beamdog’s work on the recent Baldur’s Gate remake, you may want to check out the developer’s latest release, as they’ve now worked their magic on another classic of the 90s. Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition is now available on PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Review: Reid McCarter’s review of Advanced Warfare at Kill Screen provides a sort-of summary on the franchise’s relationship with war and how the latest Call of Duty seems to almost finally recognize those problematic aspects.
Boing Boing ran a brief, but interesting piece this week about the history of social deduction games by Matt M. Casey.
Business Insider reminds us How To Still Play 10 Of The Best Video Games From Your Childhood. Why Business Insider insists on writing link bait about gaming still baffles me, though.
Claire Hosking explains Why games are better without a damsel to save.
Going Analogue: What MMOs Can Learn From LARPs is an intriguing intersection of my personal interests: "Fest LARPs and MMORPGs are remarkably similar. For example, both feature lots of people inhabiting the same place with different ideas about what makes for a good time. There are MMORPG players who just want to kill stuff and become powerful. Others want role-play full of intrigue and romance. Some just want to shank up other players. Some want it all."
Justice Points Podcast co-hosts Tzufit and the Apple Cider Mage chat with scholar and game developer Michael Lutz on the intersections of Shakespeare, performance and gameplay.
Keza MacDonald writes for Vice, asking why drugs are always so lame in videogames. This starts good and gets better. "This tone was set by 1988’s Narc, a game in which you are a steroid-pumped super-soldier who is literally called Max Force and mows down wave after wave of shuffling barefoot junkies. This game was said to have a “strong anti-drugs message”, because drugs are terribly bad. But ultra-violence? No problem!"
Maddy Myers’ talk at this year’s Boston AlterConf is available to watch online. She discusses how gonzo journalism is presently practised by some of the more esteemed outsiders of the games industry.
Overwatch cleverly highlights everything that is broken in Team Fortress 2.
PopMatters regular columnist takes aim at the recently released Bayonetta 2 and how it is like attending a Beyonce concert in both form and function.
Prepare To Die is a poetry chapbook about Dark Souls by Jess Jenkins.
Robert H. Dylan dismisses the critical commentary on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s funeral scene in Press X to disrespect: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. Dylan explains why the “Pay Respects” prompt is “a perfectly harmonious example of naked, apocalyptic scale human hostility, innocently dressed up in its pious, militaristic, fascist propaganda jive of ‘freedom isn’t free’, ‘sacrifice’, ‘duty’ and ‘sincere emotional investment.’”
Video games and art: Why gaming is the future of media
Wired looks at a war survival videogame that shows you the real horrors of fighting.
News: World of Warcraft's subreddit taken offline in protest, controversy flares
Review: If you’re a fan of old school D&D RPGs and Beamdog’s work on the recent Baldur’s Gate remake, you may want to check out the developer’s latest release, as they’ve now worked their magic on another classic of the 90s. Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition is now available on PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Review: Reid McCarter’s review of Advanced Warfare at Kill Screen provides a sort-of summary on the franchise’s relationship with war and how the latest Call of Duty seems to almost finally recognize those problematic aspects.
Boing Boing ran a brief, but interesting piece this week about the history of social deduction games by Matt M. Casey.
Business Insider reminds us How To Still Play 10 Of The Best Video Games From Your Childhood. Why Business Insider insists on writing link bait about gaming still baffles me, though.
Claire Hosking explains Why games are better without a damsel to save.
Going Analogue: What MMOs Can Learn From LARPs is an intriguing intersection of my personal interests: "Fest LARPs and MMORPGs are remarkably similar. For example, both feature lots of people inhabiting the same place with different ideas about what makes for a good time. There are MMORPG players who just want to kill stuff and become powerful. Others want role-play full of intrigue and romance. Some just want to shank up other players. Some want it all."
Justice Points Podcast co-hosts Tzufit and the Apple Cider Mage chat with scholar and game developer Michael Lutz on the intersections of Shakespeare, performance and gameplay.
Keza MacDonald writes for Vice, asking why drugs are always so lame in videogames. This starts good and gets better. "This tone was set by 1988’s Narc, a game in which you are a steroid-pumped super-soldier who is literally called Max Force and mows down wave after wave of shuffling barefoot junkies. This game was said to have a “strong anti-drugs message”, because drugs are terribly bad. But ultra-violence? No problem!"
Maddy Myers’ talk at this year’s Boston AlterConf is available to watch online. She discusses how gonzo journalism is presently practised by some of the more esteemed outsiders of the games industry.
Overwatch cleverly highlights everything that is broken in Team Fortress 2.
PopMatters regular columnist takes aim at the recently released Bayonetta 2 and how it is like attending a Beyonce concert in both form and function.
Prepare To Die is a poetry chapbook about Dark Souls by Jess Jenkins.
Robert H. Dylan dismisses the critical commentary on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s funeral scene in Press X to disrespect: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. Dylan explains why the “Pay Respects” prompt is “a perfectly harmonious example of naked, apocalyptic scale human hostility, innocently dressed up in its pious, militaristic, fascist propaganda jive of ‘freedom isn’t free’, ‘sacrifice’, ‘duty’ and ‘sincere emotional investment.’”
Video games and art: Why gaming is the future of media
Wired looks at a war survival videogame that shows you the real horrors of fighting.
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