Posts tagged ‘Gaming’

Guest blogger Courtney Stanton explains how she organized a game developer conference with 50% women speakers. Stanton is a project manager for a video game company in Boston, and long-time feminist scourge of the computer ...

“When I read WotC’s article what I saw was Jon Schindehette going through one of the early cycles of trying to understand sexism. (…) I wish he had gotten further along before he wrote a public article… but he has my empathy as to why getting there takes time.”

A quote from Mara Wilson’s review of Top Girl. I’ve played some pretty terrible video games, but this sounds like it may be a candidate for the worst game ever.

I think my dump stat is probably all-nighters. Can barely stay awake at all: certainly the amount of work produced is nowhere near worth the cost. How about you?

This is also an open thread for any other topics of interest to you.

Ask a Geek Feminist: Do gender-diverse teams tend to create better/more unique/more inclusive games? How high is the danger of tokenism and/or essentialism here?

The fact that I’ve grown accustomed to the whiff of garbage that comes with almost every game on the market doesn’t mean I can’t smell it, though. So while I’m having a heck of a lot of fun playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, I am also slapping my forehead a lot.

Kathleen “Kit” Connell, dubbed “Britain’s oldest gamer” by The Sun, claims that gaming keeps her mind sharp.