What a year it was for female gamers, geeks and nerds. The Internet was ablaze, especially during the summer months, over ill-considered tweets, Facebook rants, opinion columns, and harassing flash games that policed women and girls’ participation in traditionally male popular culture. In case you missed it, I’m referring to controversies in game and comic [...]
Panic over spoilers is not new, and certainly not new to games. ***SPOILER ALERTS*** are like red flags on the information highway. And the danger reaches beyond the tight corners of the Internet. This past summer NBC apologized toUS audiences for revealing in its own promo spots the outcome of tape-delayed Olympic events yet to be aired on television. Oops! In [...]
I am thrilled to serve as editor of the second issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, which will focus on Feminist Game Studies. You can download a PDF of the call for papers here. CALL FOR PAPERS Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology Issue 2: Feminist Game [...]
It isn’t difficult to find feminist game studies, or feminist gamers. The reputation of misogyny in video game culture, lack of women and racial minorities in the industry, the perpetuation of player stereotypes in games marketing and the popular press, and the dearth of non-white, female, or queer characters in games has provided plenty of [...]
On Monday night I attended a Modern Warfare 3 launch party at a national video game retailer. I was particularly pleased with the diversity of the crowd. I was not the only lady in the house! I spoke with students, an investment banker, a librarian, a building manager, moms, dads, kids, etc. As Kotaku readers [...]
Distractions
watching
game of thrones / hbo
listening
philharmonics / agnes obel
playing
bioshock: infinite / ps3
reading
ready player one / ernest clineTwitter Feed

