I'm writing over at Medium Difficulty. It's a site about video games.
My first article about the relationship between role playing and game playing with Mass Effect 2 as the focal point.
My second article about why a market without used video games isn't the end of the frickin' world.
--CPW
Showing posts with label Video Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video Games. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Monday, September 12, 2011
Women in Video Game News: Not a Hot Month
UPDATE: So BioWare has gone ahead and they are releasing that figure of Liara. You can pre-order it here, and then possibly reconsider your life decisions.
A few days ago I posted on Super Whatnot about my intentions to start reading comics because of the DC Universe re-launch. I made a passing comment about how women are underrepresented in the industry and that there are some complications with how they are represented in the medium itself on too many occasions.
Video games are no different.
Typically I wouldn't go out of my way to post about simple gaming news, but there have been a pair of stories that have really irked me in the last few weeks and that I feel like I would like to address here.
1. BioWare's Liara (Mass Effect) figure reveal
2. Dead Island's code place holder for a player character
Sadness rant after the jump.
A few days ago I posted on Super Whatnot about my intentions to start reading comics because of the DC Universe re-launch. I made a passing comment about how women are underrepresented in the industry and that there are some complications with how they are represented in the medium itself on too many occasions.
Video games are no different.
Typically I wouldn't go out of my way to post about simple gaming news, but there have been a pair of stories that have really irked me in the last few weeks and that I feel like I would like to address here.
1. BioWare's Liara (Mass Effect) figure reveal
2. Dead Island's code place holder for a player character
Sadness rant after the jump.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Bacon vs. Worms(z)
Okay, so remember Tremors? Starring Kevin Bacon? And Fred Ward? Reba McEntire? Hmm... Oh! the movie was about them trying to not get eaten by a handful of ugly subterranean worm dinosaurs.
Yeah that's the one. As a child I watched this movie more times than I can count, including the sequel. But then they kept making movies (one with things called ass-blasters... seriously ass-blasters?) and a TV show and so the franchise became, well, fucking ridiculous.
But anyways, the original is still lots of fun and now you can play its protagonist, Mr. Bacon, and save the town from the evil (and fast as sin) graboids in the new flash game Tremerz.
I managed pretty well on my first attempt. I saved everyone but Reba McEntire (no big loss) and the girl on the pogo. Strangely only men made it out of the tremerz attack alive. I SWEAR THIS WAS A COINCIDENCE! Strangely Rhonda isn't in this, which I assume is due to the fact she does not have a picture on her IMDB actor profile.
Anyways, enjoy.
via Kotaku.
Can you fly mothafucka!?
Yeah that's the one. As a child I watched this movie more times than I can count, including the sequel. But then they kept making movies (one with things called ass-blasters... seriously ass-blasters?) and a TV show and so the franchise became, well, fucking ridiculous.But anyways, the original is still lots of fun and now you can play its protagonist, Mr. Bacon, and save the town from the evil (and fast as sin) graboids in the new flash game Tremerz.
I managed pretty well on my first attempt. I saved everyone but Reba McEntire (no big loss) and the girl on the pogo. Strangely only men made it out of the tremerz attack alive. I SWEAR THIS WAS A COINCIDENCE! Strangely Rhonda isn't in this, which I assume is due to the fact she does not have a picture on her IMDB actor profile.
Anyways, enjoy.
via Kotaku.
Can you fly mothafucka!?
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