On Wednesday January 29th I attended my first YEG Girl Geek Dinner. YEG Girl Geek dinners are (from their facebook page): Edmonton Girl Geek Dinners. A monthly-ish series of dinners we hold throughout the year to highlight amazing geeky women and t…
Women and Outfit Transformations - Lightning Returns versus Ar Tonelico III 'Did you see new article on Lightning Returns? I feel like they're trying to sex Lightning up.' 'I'm surprised you don't seem upset about it.' I got these texts from a male…
Today I'm here to talk to you about the magic of friendship and the way in which it's portrayed in games, specifically I'll talk about Otome games and how they handle friendships. Otome Games, also known as "Maiden Games" are ones that usually targ…
In just a little over a week I managed to eat, sleep and pretty much breathe Pokemon Y to point where I completed the main plot line, beat the Elite Four and collected a couple of mysterious legendary Pokemon. In this weeks time I managed to come t…
I recently played through Jade Empire, a Bioware RPG release in 2006 and set in a fictional East-Asian society. It's a little bit old so I played it on recommendation, buying the game off Steam. On a little side note, if you want to try it o…
I finished playing Bioshock Infinite this summer, and I have been mulling on the game for some time. I was really impressed by the art and story of the game, it was deep yet concise, and had me engaged. But I am most critical of the things I love, …
On July 6th I had the privilege of mentoring a Ladies Learning Code Html/CSS session in Edmonton (I'm in front on the left!). The Edmonton chapter was started up by the lovely Bree from BE3Designs (front and center) and the session was instructed b…
So I was reacquainted with my favorite game of all time recently, Dragon Force for the Sega Saturn. It's an interesting take on the RTS genre. Players can choose from 1 of 8 kingdoms to start their journey of recruiting the eight members of the Dra…
I am going to try to relate privilege to the topic of video games and media in general. Please check the Further Reading section at the bottom for more resources on this topic. Privilege basically means what it sounds like: some people have benefit…
Kate Beaton offers a hilarious summary of what I'll be discussing in this comic. Check it out. Now don't get me wrong, I am a true believer that the ownership of one's sexuality is truly empowering. But what I'm going to argue today is that by obje…
