This post is a hearty plug for a lot of cool stuff happening in order to address the gender gap in Computing Science. So this evening I was rereading an article by Mike Carbonaro, Duane Szafron, Maria Cutumisu, and Jonathan Schaeffer entitled "Comp…
The intention of this post is to initiate a conversation about the treatment of race in games. Countless resources have been written about the treatment of race in the media, however few exist that work solely towards deconstructing race in games. …
Appreciating the Women in Games Killzone is a 2004 game developed by Guerrilla Games. As a whole, the plot is fairly predictable and the villain is extremely campy. However, the character interactions are well crafted and hilarious. One of my favou…
AVAST! Assassin's Creed Spoilers abound me hearties. So this happened. And a small part of me died a little on the inside. Allow me to explain. The Assassin's Creed games have always been pretty cool. They mix two of my favorite things: Hist…
****THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS**** Let me start this post by saying, Fire Emblem Awakening is one of the best RPGs games I have ever played. Ever. If you have never played a Fire Emblem game then stop what you are doing and go do that. Right now. …
Hey readers! This post reflects my opinion only. :) Ethics and Computing Science seems to be desperately lacking a feminist perspective. In taking a 300 level computing course on computers and society, I noticed immediately that the majority of dis…
**I would like to issue a trigger warning, this post contains discussion of violence and sexual assault.** Techland, producers of Dead Island recently released a special "Zombie Bait" edition of the game that includes a severed female torso statuet…
So this is the newly released Bioshock Infinite cover: Ken Levine justified the decision for the unimaginative, unoriginal, unsatisfying cover in an interview with WIRED magazine. We went and did a tour... around to a bunch of, like, frathouses and…
The year is 2012 and humanity has stumbled into a distant future in which gaming has migrated, in practice, from a hobby to be enjoyed in the public spaces of arcades to the isolated confines of our mother's basements. Children no longer save up th…
In the last couple of weeks we've looked at a series of articles focusing unsurprisingly on issues of gender, representation and feminism in games. These articles have been a wonderfully brain wrinkling experience for me and you can find the source…