[Originally posted on Joystick Division] As games have been opening up to a wider audience, one of the challenges is providing content that several different people can enjoy. A crude line in the sand is usually drawn between “casual” and “hardcore” games but the most effective way appealing to everyone is by adding extra content … Continue reading The Lost Art of the Sidequest
[Originally posted on Joystick Division] Have you ever had any interest in sharing video games with someone? For those that haven’t grown up with them, video games are a completely foreign and unapproachable beast. Even those that want to see games as legitimate can’t because, for whatever reason, some people just can’t play them. Games … Continue reading Horror Games As Shared Experiences
[Originally posted on PopMatters] Being a woman in a video game would not be easy. There’s not a single decent, complete set of armor in the world that fits properly. Your mammary glands swell until you’re so top heavy that your skeleton may well warp. There’s plenty that’s already been said about how women are … Continue reading Passivity and Women in Games
[Originally posted on PopMatters] On May 20 of 2010, Pablo Picasso’s painting, Le Pigeon aux Petits Pois (The Pigeon with the Peas)—along with a handful of other paintings—was stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern art. The work of art, now destroyed, no longer exists. For visual art and even literature, there is usually a … Continue reading Video Games and the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
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