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What Is, What Should Be: An Open Letter to David Gaider
Dear Mr. Gaider, The following is a response to your blogpost regarding Trans* characters in the Dragon Age games. Let me begin by stating my position. I am, by all accounts, an unabashed BioWare fangirl and have been since the … Continue reading
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Abandonment Issues and Abject Subjectivities in Borderlands 2, Bioshock 2, and Baldur’s Gate, Too
A little over a year ago, I wrote a review of Baldur’s Gate, in anticipation of its upcoming rerelease. It was a sloppy piece on looking at the relationship between the main character and their father, Bhaal, god of death, … Continue reading
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Girls, Games, and the Products They Create
Let me throw a couple of unsurprising claims at you.
1. Many girls play video games.
2. Many girls are geeks.
Neither of these are news to you, I would imagine, because for one thing, you’re reading something written by a girl who meets both those claims. For another, it’s just common sense. That said, a smaller percentage of all girls play video games or have geeky interests than is the case with boys. This might depend on your definition of “geeky interests” (or even “video games”), but basically, more dudes appear to be into it.
Indeed, of the entire “hardcore”/”real” video gaming or geeky interest population, the vast majority are boys. Again, no surprises. So, really, we shouldn’t be surprised that attractive gaming girls or geeky girls are extremely marketable. What does surprise me, however, is how people tend to cash in on it. Continue reading
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Round One: Brazzers versus the Fighter Game Industry
By Kaitlin Tremblay Brazzers’s offer of potential sponsorship for fighting games to break into the world of spectator sports has caused the old arguments of porn as either a feminist or anti-feminist industry to resurface full-force. What’s interesting to me … Continue reading
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