If you haven't heard of #GamerGate in the past few weeks, or months if you've been with us from the start, I am extremely jealous of you. Your head probably doesn't hurt from watching this bizarre debate unfold before your eyes. But it never hurts …
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…
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…
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…
There usually are not female enemies in video games. By that, I mean the nameless grunts that the player kills by the hundreds over the course of a game. This is not a good thing. This lack of visible females among the grunts is most likely because…
Last week we read an interesting post on costume design that discussed the concept of sexiness and the relationship between gender and costume design in games. The article addressed the "suspension of disbelief" in the context of clothing practical…
Welcome to the first attempt of a couple of undergrads to critically examine Gender in New Media. Specifically looking at the representations within Video Games. Each week we'll be posting observations based off of weekly assigned readings. We'll h…