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Bad Gamer Part 26: What Happens If You Play Through Dragon Age: Inquisition...
Catch up on previous Bad Gamer installments if you missed them! Frostback Basin: We head back to camp to tell Professor Kenric what the spirit has told us about Inquisitor Ameridan. Trustworthy or...
View ArticleNew Feminist Frequency Video Dissects the Trope of “Strategic Butt Coverings”
Anita Sarkeesian has just released the newest episode of Feminist Frequency, titled “Strategic Butt Coverings”. This episode focuses on the techniques that developers and designers often use to...
View ArticleCan They Remake Final Fantasy VII Without the Sexism?
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Street Fighter V‘s Yoshinori Ono Changed Butt-Focused Camera Angles Due To...
The last time Street Fighter V developer Yoshinori Ono spoke about the decision to change several butt-focused camera angles in the beta version of the game, he described the change as an artistic one...
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Pixelthreads: What’s the Deal With Final Fantasy and Louis Vuitton?
I was in for a bit of a shock when I opened my February 2016 issue of Elle magazine this month. I flipped through the first few pages, which are always ads, right to a picture of a familiar face:...
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Parsing the Mixed Feminist Feelings About Bayonetta in Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros., Nintendo’s wildly popular fighting franchise, has added its final two DLC characters, Corrin from Fire Emblem and head witch in charge, Bayonetta. Both of their inclusions garnered...
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The Witcher 3 Imparts an Important Message About Parenting
Video games have been trying to successfully convey narratives with paternity at their core for years now. They usually come in the form of a father/daughter relationship, and while some have had...
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On Story Games and Narrative With Jean Leggett of One More Story Games
Indie game studio One More Story Games is dedicated to bringing us high quality, narrative-focused games. With their game engine, Story Stylus, anyone can write a game and share it. The company takes...
View ArticleXBox Apologizes for Schoolgirl Dancers at Microsoft’s GDC Party
Someone sent me photos and and an OH: “We’ve got the best spot in the house, don’t we?” (Deleted originals to blur) pic.twitter.com/WWiLo0wwOB — Kamina Vincent (@spamoir) March 18, 2016 Microsoft has...
View ArticleFeminist Frequency’s Ordinary Women Campaign Keeps Kicking Ass Despite...
Two weeks ago, Feminist Frequency launched a crowdfunding campaign for Ordinary Women, our new video series about incredible, defiant women throughout history, and we’re pleased to say that we’re on...
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Blizzard Responds to Fan Concerns Regarding Oversexualized Overwatch...
In a move that’s spun off a surprisingly civil conversation, Blizzard has removed a controversial victory pose belonging to Tracer, one of the heroes from their upcoming first-person shooter game,...
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Nintendo Denies Harassment Factored Into Termination of Employee - Alison...
Yesterday afternoon, Alison Rapp, who had been the target for a sustained harassment campaign for several months, tweeted that her employment at Nintendo of America had been terminated. In response,...
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The Mary Sue Interview: The Ladies of Geek & Sundry’s Critical Role Explain...
Every Thursday at 7 pm PST, a group of, in their own words, “nerdy-ass” voice-actors get together to play their Dungeons & Dragons campaign live as part of Geek & Sundry’s hit series Critical...
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Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Expansion Earns Ire of Gamers Angry at...
On March 31st, Beamdog released an expansion to the popular Baldur’s Gate II game, titled Siege of Dragonspear. As of right now, a little less than a week after its release, the aggregated reviews...
View ArticleOverwatch‘s Tracer Receives New Victory Pose, Seemingly Inspired by Pin-Up Art
I don’t know pin-up art from my elbow, but @christianmccrea deftly identified the source here pic.twitter.com/RovfwQliYO — BooDoo (@BooDooPerson) April 6, 2016 Blizzard just recently released a new...
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Forget Real Yoga, Play Jenny Jiao Hsia’s Wobble Yoga
Jenny Jiao Hsia’s game Wobble Yoga is a perfect representation of me trying to do yoga in real life. Hsia created the game as part of the Ludum Dare game jam (the theme was “shapeshift”), and it was...
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Amilia St. John Has Some Words for Her Father’s Sexist “Toddler Meltdown”...
To catch you up, Alex St. John, one of the original pioneers of Microsoft’s DirectX platform and founder of WildTanget Software, wrote an opinion piece over on VentureBeat a few days back basically...
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The “Uncensored” World of Street Fighter Mods: The Good, The Bad, The Naked -...
There are a lot of great reasons to install fan-made modifications to the character models in Street Fighter. Personally, I like to install mods made with referential cleverness in mind, like the mod...
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Gen Con’s “Industry Insiders” Guest List Has Finally Reached Gender Parity -...
Gen Con 2016 has just announced their list of invited “Industry Insiders,” which refers to a group of 25 Featured Presenters as well as the Industry Insider Guest of Honor, who is Michael Pondsmith....
View Article[VIDEO] Interview: Courtenay Taylor Talks Her Favorite Roles and Following...
Courtenay Taylor is one versatile actress. She’s lent her voice acting talents to Halo 5, Fallout 4, Mad Max, Resident Evil, and, of course, the role of Jack in Mass Effect 3—but voice acting wasn’t...
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