Corporate Decision Silliness · Games Criticism · Gendered gaming · Rants · Sexuality in gaming

Say Anything

Remember a while back, a long while back, I wrote about a League of Legends champ named Taric and how I felt Riot should just make him gay already? A long time has passed since then (three years+, in fact). As I've written elsewhere, my feelings on Riot, on the situation itself, and on what I said back in… Continue reading Say Anything

Body Types in Games · Corporate Decision Silliness · Games Criticism · Rants

Whole Hog

This is a short post. But I am cranky. Like many people in the gaming culture/press/business/what-have-you, I have spent many a moment over the past couple days looking at my Battle.net client longingly, hoping I too will suddenly receive a beta invite for Blizzard’s upcoming TF2-alike, Overwatch. To kill some time, I decided to look… Continue reading Whole Hog

Fan Culture · Games Criticism · Gendered gaming · Sexuality in gaming · Uncategorized

Paradoryxical

Where to begin. Although the information has been floating around gaming's social media spheres and message boards for a few weeks now, yesterday Polygon ran an op-ed by Laura K. Dale about Oryx, the titular king of Destiny's recent The Taken King expansion, being transgender. As a cis-though-not-as-cis-as-they-thought-they-were-for-30-years person, I struggled a lot with whether it was even… Continue reading Paradoryxical

Bizarrely Out of Character · Games Criticism · Games Journalism

Teachable Moment

Right. By now I'm sure many of you have heard about Michael Thomsen's WaPo review of Super Mario Maker. Suffice it to say that I found it really freaking obnoxious. Others did, too. I didn't see many people defending it, and I can imagine some reasonable ones; Tom Auxier at least had a couple reasonable explanations for… Continue reading Teachable Moment

Games Criticism · Games Journalism · Rants · Sexuality in gaming

Dismissed

Hi, Twitter. So I made this tweet earlier tonight, around dinner time-ish: https://twitter.com/laevantine/status/618580256325283840 I've got thoughts about both of these topics, obviously, but I've been skirting writing about them for various reasons. Some of them more professional, some silly (FF14 has eaten up a lot of my life lately), and some personal (I am scared… Continue reading Dismissed