Why does video game boobs and booty cause moral panic? Many, many months ago I wrote about Marvelous Entertainment and Tamsoft´s upcoming games Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (a action/side scrolling game for 3DS) and Estival Versus (a action/beat-em-up game for PS4 and PSV). Well, I have changed my mind about them (I have seen in-game footage from ... Read more
It´s not uncommon for big games news sites such as Polygon and Kotaku to bring up the “gender bending” subject in the world of games (“8 Impressive Girls-As-Guys Cosplays,” “It’s time for more leading women in games,” “Gender-Bending Game Characters: The Revenge” to name a few). And before I eve... Read more
It´s been a while since I heard anything about Polygon´s notorious senior opinion editor Ben Kuchera. But just now I stumbled up on a rather interesting tweet by neontaster. As the tweet contained a subtweet from Ben Kuchera (he talked about blocklists on Twitter). And by the look of it, Kuchera don´t care all that much if you have ended up on his.... Read more
There has always been a need for a scapegoat when times get rough. And ever since last summer (August to be exact) #GamerGate has been media´s (mainstream and game-related media) number one scapegoat target for everything and nothing (misogyny, doxxing, death threats, etc.). However, media is not the only ones who have blamed a lot of things on #Ga... Read more
Vox media has attempted to link Cecil the Lion’s death to Gamergate. The unfortunate truth about this situation is that they try to directly link the poor animal’s death to Internet harassment, and Gamergate. In his article, Max Fisher suggests that the “tactics” used to run Walter Palmer out of public and online society, are those employed by Game... Read more
