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Ever since my first convention experience – BlizzCon 2009 – I’ve had the itch to do some cosplay. Especially after seeing other friends walk around in costume and the dedication and love they felt either for a role they were playing or a costume they were proud of, I knew I wanted to take the [...]
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Anita Sarkesian’s first video in from the Kickstarter’d Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series was released last week! This first video is about the Damsel in Distress trope (called “Part 1″ because “Part 2″ will address some of the more recent games revolving around this trope, as opposed to the older games addressed in [...]
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If you never look at the column on the right-hand side of my blog posts, you might miss my little section called “What I’m Backing”. Typically once every few months I find a Kickstarter project I’m interested in, and I’ll update the section to show at what I’ve most recently chucked money. Right now it’s [...]
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If you don’t follow Geek & Sundry, you really should. Besides being a repository for all things silly and geek, its creator, the Lady Nerd Felicia Day, has taken the success of their show TableTop (hosted by Wil Wheaton) and parleyed it into the first International TableTop Day. The goal with ITTD (the abbreviation I just made up) is [...]
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March seems to be a month of sequels in games – let’s talk about the ups and downs of the 3 I find most exciting. Tomb Raider Release Date: March 5th Ever a fan of the strong female main character and ever a fan of gritty origin stories (everybody likes a good origin story, I [...]
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A long long time ago (like…last April) I backed a Kickstarter project for Wasteland 2. To be fair, at that time I was new to Kickstarter and ready to throw a little money at any project that moved, but this was one I felt some true interest in, due mostly to the fact that the original Wasteland [...]
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Big company’s abuse of the work of smaller “indie” companies or individuals is, I’m sure, an issue that’s been around awhile. It’s not until now, though, that occurrences are finally being brought well into the public’s attention, specifically when it comes to people making their living mostly on the internet. There’s been a couple of instances recently [...]
Continue ReadingHey, happy 2013 y’all! Clearly I’m already behind on the new year’s posting schedule, but here’s to a full year of posts and discussions on nerds, technology, and anything else that happens to come up. Go team go, etc. For now, feast your eyes upon the new Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm cinematic. As usual, [...]
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The Better Bombshell is a blog (also becoming a book in February of next year) that discusses the redefinition of the sexy female “bombshell” in society. This past month they’ve been doing interviews with women in the gaming industry, getting their opinions on women in all aspects of gaming (development, playing, etc). One of the [...]
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I never had any interest in playing Max Payne 3, and I found the trailer (at least, the one constantly peddled on Hulu the week before the game’s release) completely uninspiring. “Wow, a main character protecting rich guy tries to redeem himself by getting back rich guy’s sexy-but-obnoxious girlfriend?” Yawn. The only thing that ever [...]
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