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Category Archives: Video Games

Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018

Carolyn’s Top Five Games of 2018

Each year, the barrage of game releases feels bigger and more unmanageable than the last. In some ways, I suppose that’s a good problem to have, but it does mean that there are some much-talked-about […]

Sep 12, 2017Nov 18, 2020

UK Conference Inducts Anita Into European Women in Games Hall of Fame

Anita delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Women in Games Conference at the East London Arts and Music Academy on September 6th. Women in Games is a non-profit, games industry diversity organization, and their […]

Aug 01, 2017Aug 01, 2017

Tacoma Review: Found in Space

Perhaps more than anything else, Tacoma is proof that a decent story, brilliantly told (which Tacoma is) is far better than a brilliant story, decently told. The follow-up to their debut masterpiece, Gone Home, Tacoma […]

Jul 24, 2017Dec 21, 2017

Pyre Review: The Fires of Freedom

Games almost always want us to feel like a great deal is at stake. Our hero’s life, or the outcome of a war, or maybe the fate of the universe. But few games succeed at […]

Jul 12, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Contained in Our Moments: Ignorance and Love in Nier: Automata and The Witcher 3

PLEASE NOTE: This piece discusses the ending of Nier: Automata in extreme detail.     I finally finished The Witcher 3, that beast of a game. I have plenty of gripes with it. It egregiously sensationalizes […]

Jun 14, 2017Jun 15, 2017

Building a Human Universe: The Ambitious Vision of Beyond Good & Evil 2

I wouldn’t have been surprised if the demo I saw for Beyond Good & Evil 2 had reminded me of the open-world adventure of Breath of the Wild, or of The Witcher 3’s efforts to […]

Jun 14, 2017Jun 14, 2017

Gender Breakdown of Games Featured at E3 2017

For the past two years, we’ve produced gender breakdowns of the games showcased at the major press conferences of E3, the game industry’s biggest annual event. We do this not because we believe that every […]

May 03, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Children of the Earth: The Limits of Link and the Promise of Aloy

Link and Aloy, the heroes of 2017’s two biggest and best open-world action-adventure games thus far, are both born of the world to save the world. In Breath of the Wild, Link emerges into the vastness […]

Mar 10, 2017Nov 18, 2020

What Lies Beneath: On the Love and Anger of Night in the Woods

To one degree or another, we’re shaped by the places we come from. Mae Borowski, the twenty-year-old college dropout hero of Night in the Woods, doesn’t know how deeply her hometown of Possum Springs has […]

Feb 22, 2017Feb 22, 2017

Hall of Mirrors: Facing Patriarchy in the Media, Facing Ourselves

John Wick is “a man of focus,” as another character describes him early in John Wick: Chapter 2. Once he sets his mind on a singular task, you don’t want to come between him and […]

Jun 17, 2016Dec 31, 2016

Gender Breakdown of Games Showcased at E3 2016

After last year’s E3, we produced a gender breakdown of the games showcased at the press conferences held by Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and other companies. There was a lot of discussion during last year’s show […]

Jun 06, 2013Jul 22, 2016

Full IGN interview with Anita Sarkeesian

A few months ago I was interviewed by Paul Dean for an article at IGN entitled “Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Why it Matters”. Our conversation touched on a wide array of topics, including […]

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