Tropes vs. Women in Video Games: With Anita Sarkeesian. The Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered clichés in the history of gaming and the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the medium itself.
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These days, while throwback games with qualities similar to the classic days still exist, most games focus more on the narrative. They are an experience, play off of the suspension of disbelief, and take you along for a story instead of sending you equipped with three lives into hours of b...
You see, In the world of fighting games, there are two telling factors about how much relevance a character has: their ease of play (how good they are), and they're general popularity (how flashy they are if a guy/how hot they are if a girl). Momoko here is a bouncy teen fighting...
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Queer Tropes in Video Games” a video from Feminist Frequency “The trans narrative in ‘The Last of Us Part II’ is compelling. There’s so much more to be done.” by Julie Muncy “ ‘Am I Trans?’: One Teen’s Quest and How Gaming Helped” (...
Many games attempt to emulate cinema, dealing in the same tropes and stock characters. Initially, it looks like Uncharted does the same thing – it focuses on a treasure hunter who frequently finds himself in danger across exotic locations. But when you play Uncharted, especially the second inst...
“I thought I'd killed the Ghost Pirate LeChuck for good. Wrong.” Pirate Guybrush Threepwood’s journal entry offers an ominous start toMonkey Island 2, but make no mistake, this is still one of the funniest adventure games ever coded. Threepwood’s quest to unite the pieces of a lost...
PeriscopeandYouTube (live)are services enabling anyone to broadcast live video.Twitchis a live video site oriented towards video games but includes other content as well. Live TV channels wwiTV,TVopedia, andSquid TV(which has no search function), list the live streaming pages of television cha...
Braidwas a pioneer for indie games, a subversive platformer that turned many of the tropes and expectations set by theSuper Marioseries on their heads. Rather than straightforward, linear levels with relatively consistent mechanics,Braidintroduces time manipulation, essentially allowing you to rewind you...