There is no denying the change in perception of gamer demographics in the past few years. Video/computer games in the early to mid-90’s were made for an adolescent male audience by male programmers, though this isn’t all that surprising, considering that most of the people who would consider themselves “gamers” were male. The hardcore/casual divide [...]
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Capcom and the Decline of the Japanese Presence in the North American Game Market: What’s Gender Got to Do With It?
January 24th, 2012 
alexlayne 
Posted in 360, DS, Miscellany, Mobile, PC, PS3, PSP, Uncategorized, Wii 
Tags: Capcom, Dead Rising, Mega Man, Resident Evil, Street fighter 
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The Women of Mortal Kombat
October 3rd, 2011 alexlayne As I played the new Mortal Komat, I was struck by how similar this game seemed to the ones I had always played: similar characters, similar scenes, and similar moves. I’d like to imagine that video game companies are under pressure to develop their characters to move away from the disgruntled, white, male protagonist. [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Mac, Miscellany, PC, PS3, PSP, Uncategorized, Wii, Windows Comments Off
What Video Game Designers Have to Teach Us About Education (Or “A Rip-Off of My Cs Presentation)
April 17th, 2011 dr. b. Below is an edited and (hopefully contextualized) version of the talk that I did at CCCC 2011 in Atlanta, GA. I have added some images and video but not the entire PowerPoint presentation from the talk. Ian Bogost defines procedural rhetoric as “a technique for making arguments with computational systems and for unpacking computational arguments [...]
Posted in Games and Education, Uncategorized, Wii Tags: Education, games and learning, Gamification 1 Comment »
Is Sexism Intrinsic to Technology? An Introspection
February 21st, 2011 alexlayne I’m writing this as a response to a thoughtful article called “If tech discussion was really about tech, it wouldn’t be sexist” by Restructure. The author writes, “There is sexism in tech culture. However, I continue to love tech, because I think of the sexism as a separate, unnecessary appendage to pure tech. I cannot [...]
On Gender, Mickey and Hardcore Gaming
February 4th, 2011 dr. b. Episode 2: Who Ya Callin’ Hardcore?!? (“Save As” to download) The second episode of Not Your Mama’s Gamer podcast where Alex, Sarah, and I talk about gender, hardcore gamers, 3D technology, depression, Sam’s video game compulsion, and Disney’s Epic Mickey. Don’t worry it all comes together nicely. Links of Note: Video Game Addiction Tied to [...]
