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It’s been days since I wanted to talk about anything other than Metal Gear Solid [official site]. My sister is probably sick of this. We’re very close but live far apart so we tend to speak almost every day, not so much about our lives as about the things that distract us from our lives….
Women: too hard to animate for Assassin’s Creed, but pretty easy to be horrible to With some of the building discussion about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which will, for the first time, allow you to play as a man and a woman (siblings, we’re told), it occurred to me that there wasn’t…
Well, That Escalated Quickly: A Samus Followup | The Mary Sue.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the lack of women protagonists in videogames. But our problems with diversity don’t stop there. As one article recently noted, shockingly, there have only been 14 playable black women in videogame history. Gamers who aren’t cisgender white men often find themselves lacking characters they can rally behind….
So, there is this story making the rounds where Paul Dini on a podcast explains why execs do not want female viewers for their super hero shows. There’s a link in the resources below. But the gist of it is basically “Girls do not buy our merchandise.” Sounds horrible right? People are shocked! Yeah, well,…
Ending the Wild West The exceptions, the problem First-person shooters, action games and sports games have been popular among boys ever since the early ’90s. In 2012, the three categories combined were responsible for 58.8 percent of video game sales in North America. They’re easily some of the most visible kinds of games, lining…
Congratulations, gamer girls—you’re officially at the top of the food chain when it comes to games. A new study released by the Entertainment Software Association has revealed that adult women now occupy the largest demographic in the gaming industry. Women over 18 made up a whopping 36 percent of the gaming population, followed by adult…
When Cammy was first shown in Street Fighter V, people online in Japan were not happy with the character’s appearance. Now, they are. As website Hachima Kikou noted at the time, Cammy’s SFV character design was called “exceedingly ugly” online in Japan. Sporting more angular features, the character did appear different from her Street Fighter…
Delays, demands for refunds and online feuds are breaking out Chris Roberts needs a vacation. ######## BEGIN SNIPPET ######## Since Star Citizen was presented on Kickstarter back in 2012, he says he’s been working non-stop. In the last few weeks, Roberts has made a Gamescom appearance, visited his studios around the world, talked to various…
Game Info Platform PS4, Xbox One, Win Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Developer Avalanche Studios Release Date 2015-09-01 ######## BEGIN SNIPPET ######## I’ve heard it said that the Mad Max films are less about Max as a conquering hero and more about a passive protagonist, someone who has no real control over his own fate,…