Hey, remember Mortal Kombat X? The series reboot by NetherRealm? Came out early last year. I remember it, because in April I wrote the game’s subtle deployment of the first canon […]
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 […]
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. […]
Touch Me
Where do I start. On Thursday, Robert Yang put out a game called Rinse and Repeat. It is a game that is part of Robert’s growing body of work on making… well, […]
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. […]
Apropos of Nothing
It’s, uh… it’s been a heck of a couple weeks, hasn’t it.
Dismissed
Hi, Twitter. So I made this tweet earlier tonight, around dinner time-ish: Twitter is it worth my time to write about Soleil or Rust's dick size thing or should I […]
Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)
So, let’s talk about Cobra Club, the dick pic simulator by Robert Yang, for a little bit. Because the content of the game is NSFW — and because I’m going […]
Please Don’t Touch Me
So: Dragon’s Crown. It’s come back into my life recently, as I have been playing it on my Vita (it’s a surprisingly good fit for that system). Also spoilers, despite all […]
Dys-embodied
I originally wasn’t going to write this post. This morning I read a great piece in Offworld by Aevee Bee on video game bodies and physical conflict as metaphor for […]