Did We All Help Get Rid of BroThor?
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Why is FemThor replacing a BroThor? Is the replacement -- instead of addition -- thanks to a society crying out for more diverse representation?
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RTX 2014: The Power of a Community
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Rooster Teeth's RTX 2014 teaches us a valuable lession: The Internet isn’t all about numbers - remember to take care of people who care about you.
Read MoreIs Hearthstone's Chat Wheel Really Worth Praising?
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I chafe at limited communication. The idea of a social media service that only lets you choose pre-written responses aggravates me, and that's why I'm worried about what Hearthstone means for future gaming communications.
Read MoreDemocracy 3: My Most Humiliating Death in a Video Game
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If you want to do well in Democracy 3 you have to be a good ruler. And I failed. Miserably and utterly. I’ve died thousands of times in video games over the years, but this death was probably the most humiliating.
Read MoreWhat LucasFilm Could Learn From J.K. Rowling and BioWare
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LucasFilm's marginalization of the Expanded Universe demonstrates a disturbing lack of faith, but will they disappoint like Mass Effect's ending? Or could they learn from J.K. Rowling's handle of Harry Potter canon?
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When Do Bugs Actually Work and Why?
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Instead of being aberrations, there must be a time and a place when bug become a natural part of a video game’s flow. Why is it that some bugs will render a game to be broken, but others are celebrated and hunted by players?
Read MoreThe King of the Mews: An Interview with EmuKiller
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WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP. What does Emukiller think of dethroning Mew2King?
Read MoreBeyond the Oregon Trail: Your History Education and Gaming
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Between all of the education-first and the entertainment-first offerings available, there should be more than enough games out there for students to sweep a history-themed category on Jeopardy!
Read MoreIt’s Art, Man! An Interview With a Local Gaming Virtuoso
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Gamer symphony orchestra member Steve O'Brien talks about the history of his local orchestras and their passionate power over professional events like Video Games Live.
Read MoreOn the Morality of Stealth Games
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Whether it’s in Deus Ex, Splinter Cell or Dishonored, stealth games ask players a question -- when sneaking through a room full of guards, would you rather mercilessly kill your enemies, or would you rather harmlessly knock them out?
Read MoreConnor Kenway, Delsin Rowe and the Search for a Fully Realized Character
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While Assassin's Creed III and InFAMOUS SecondSon illuminate diversity in AAA games, they still fall short of perfectly complex protagonists.
Read MorePAX Through the Eyes of an Amateur Photographer
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The cosplay world can be cynical, and I know that photographers like me perpetuate these disparaging problems.
But from my camera, I just want people to know I consider myself lucky.
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Mass Effect and the Female Gaze
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The Mass Effect series invites gamers to view the world through the lens of a so-called "female gaze," which helps redefine how we think about characters that challenges how we think about sexuality and attraction.
Read MoreMetal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes Reminds Me When I Wasn’t Good At Video Games
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Games like Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes reminds me what it means to be a "bad gamer." But maybe that was the point...
Read MoreDear Game Devs, Stop Killing Our Families
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The "dadification" of video game protagonists is getting old in 2014.
Read MoreWhat Video Games Should Be Borrowing From Television
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Video Games are frequently compared to cinema, but maybe television is a better comparasion...
Read MoreWhy the State Department Should be Jealous of Reddit
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The internet really wanted to help find the Boston bomber.
Because they knew they could do it.
And they could have, but they needed guidance.
Read MoreGamification Contagion, Part One: Badges
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Will Wright once called the gamification a “kind of monosodium glutamate you can just add to any interface." We'll examine why, starting with badge fever, and the continous failed attempt to achieve Pokemon badge levels of awesomeness.
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