war games
Winning Hearts and Minds
A writer with family in Fallujah reckons with a video game set in the city where his cousin was shot and asks whether realism in games is even welcome anymore.
representation
News
Old Man’s Journey, a beautifully slow game about nearing the end of life
In a market oversaturated with dark shooters and bright pixels, calm games can seem few and far between. Enter Old Man’s Journey, a beautiful upcoming game by Viennese studio Broken Rules that is exactly what the title describes. The teaser trailer, released last Thursday, features a cute, white-bea
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The videogame that dares to tackle African politics
Videogames have a problem with how they portray Africa—the continent often appears as nothing more than a stereotypical warzone. The most egregious example is 2009’s Resident Evil 5, which included an unnamed African locale with a conspicuously incensed mob united under an unconvincing explanation o
Review
Everyone should be squirming to play Push Me Pull You
Sweating, writhing, fleshy worms are locked in combat with each other. Their two heads and four arms struggle to maintain dominance over one another. It’s a vicious and gross game of sport. And yet it is somehow completely, utterly adorable. Push Me Pull You lands somewhere between sumo wrestling, a
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Badiya hopes to change Arabic representation in videogames
“Sometimes showing things just the way they really are is the biggest contribution you can make toward the cause,” explains Ahmad Jadallah, the director of development at Saudi Arabian studio Semaphore. He’s looking to help fix representation of the Arab world in videogames, and hopes that his team’
Essay
The Qun Demands It: The Evolution of the Barbarous Other
The secret racism behind high fantasy’s brutish races.
News
Women redesign female characters to show what videogames are missing out on
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a
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A zine imagines the awesome possibilities of diverse female fighting characters
Crab-women, monster girls, mystic ladies.
News
Emoji diversity is coming, and not a second too soon
See yourself in your phone.
Article
New PBS Game/Show asks Would it Matter if Master Chief Were Gay?
It depends whether or not you mind being a little gay.
silent hill
Like a Boss
Grappling with the lords of darkness
Issue 01
Video Game Feminist of the Decade
Why the Best Feminist of the Decade is You