Rachel Helps

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Sexy airhead characters should be blamed on their creators.

There are a lot of gut reactions going on when a scantily-clad lady appears in a videogame. Things like “she’s hot!” and also “she must be cold in that.” Some of us might sigh in exasperation and wonder if there will be any real ladies in the game.  An essay at J. Shea’s blog urges us to reconsider

Forty-four free online multiplayer games to start your week.

Many good multiplayer games require expensive things like four controllers for a PS3 or a high-end PC. But for those of us with old computers, there are still multiplayer, non-Facebook games available.  Pixel Prospector celebrates their fourth anniversary with a video of 44 free, multiplayer indie g

Japanese ruins tell a story; inspire indie game.

If your posessions were found in fifty years, what story would they tell? For one house in Japan, the ruins tell the story of a Western man with ties to the Queen of England who married into a Japanese family. Someone in the family didn’t like him, as he was cut out of some of the photos. Why did th

The locally-grown game movement starts with this chart.

The slow food movement has been gaining popularity in the USA. Hip restaurants boast that their food is locally sourced and completely organic. Purchasing food locally can reduce gas consumption and supports the local economy.  Purchasing videogames locally might not reduce gas consumption, but it p

Elmo plays an RPG to learn letters.

Sesame Street has a history of creating parody music videos (like Cookie Monster’s “Share It Maybe“).  Videogames are prevalent enough in popular culture that they’re deserving of Sesame Street parodies as well. After all, the target audience of Sesame Street today has always had access to things li

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