A recent article came out by a collaboration force of Iowa State University, University Grenoble Alpes and Universite Savoie Mont Blanc of France talking about sexism and video game exposure in adolescents. As one may expect, based on the first sentence which reads, “Research has indicated that many video games are saturated with stereotypes of wom... Read more
This is going to be a short article, as it’s nothing we haven’t seen time and time again, but people deserve to know the truth each time it comes back around. You see, just recently Kotaku wrote an article titled “What is Richard Dawkins: Evolution?” in which they refused to disclose their relation with their topic. As a matter of fact,... Read more
Well, THAT sure didn’t take very long, did it? Yep, everyone’s favorite commentator of video games, “Saint” Anita Sarkeesian is back, and this time she’s criticizing the best Zelda game ever (“The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”). At the time of this writing, the review is not up, but it has been submi... Read more
I (Robin Ek, TGG) had no idea what ResistJam was all about until I was informed about its existence earlier today. Well, for those who don’t know what ResistJam is all about, this is the actual official description of the event/game jam: “#ResistJam is an online game jam about creating games that resist oppressive authoritarianism in al... Read more
As most of you probably already know by now, the GDC 2017 event ended less than one week ago (GDC 17 went on between the 27th of February and the 3rd of March). Well, since I’ve been reading quite a lot of tweets, posts and comments from Gamers and game developers who went to GDC 17. Long story short, I... Read more