Posts tagged ‘games’

Tired of hearing the same arguments regarding sexism in games? Here’s a sexism in games bingo card by @fireholly99. Trigger Warning: Includes mention of violence against women. Additional Warning: This card has been copied verbatim ...

I just spotted a picture of angry bird cupcakes drift past in my Google+ stream. Unfortunately when I clicked on it, it reported the site was over quota. Oh well. So I hopped over to ...

If you’re not a gamer, perhaps you haven’t seen this post entitled Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer which complains about the romance options in Dragon Age II. [Warning: minor spoilers for ...

As I mentioned in Some reasons I’m looking forwards to PAX East, my friends and I have been making angry birds to play with at PAX East this weekend. I finally took some pictures and ...

I think I’m going to start a new segment here, because I’ve just found another bit of awesome, nerdy stuff on the internet that would at very least amuse many geek women. I shall call ...

A few Penny Arcade fans with little grasp of basic human decency and even less grasp of basic grammar and spelling have really been making for an unpleasant week. The last linkspam has related links ...

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...

We’ve filled a lot of linkspams with discussion of negative reviews of World of Warcraft from the feminist perspective. While I still think “I KILL THINGS WITH MY LADYBITS” may be the best description of ...

[Trigger warning: as you probably realized from the title, this post discusses the (overuse) of rape in fantasy settings] I’m going to start with saying that I thought the Penny Arcade comic was actually pretty ...

The Hack Gender project is running until June 5, inviting you to create something that talks about gender and its transitory state in modern discourse. See submission instructions and existing submissions. FemaleScienceProfessor tackles a question ...

We are essentially a social commentary blog. We tend to grab relevant somethings that pass through our individual radar and put them up for discussion. As part of this, I noticed and wrote a quick hit ...

From the casual stereotyping department comes Puzzlebots. First off, I want to make it clear that this particular game is not unique in this regard at all. It’s just a convenient example that I came ...

Inspired by a post of lauredhel’s asking for recent movies that pass the Bechdel test, I wondered if anyone has some recommendations for good recent geeky entertainment that also passes, ideally comprehensively rather than barely. ...

Something to contribute to: Be counted! A survey of the gender distribution at tech events: annina an9, Persephone Miel, Hanna Wallach and Karen Brennan have launched a site to collect data on gender diversity at ...

Arr, it be talk like a pirate day, and dem scallywags at Telltale Games be givin’ away der booty. Okay, I promise, I won’t pirate it up for an entire post. But Telltale really is ...

EA has been promoting one of their games with some pretty dubious deadly sin-themed marketing stunts. Their “lust” stunt left many of us unimpressed, but with their “greed” stunt, they gave Joystiq a chance to ...