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		<title>Microsoft Reveals Xbox One, The Future of Gaming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock you may have missed Microsoft&#8217;s reveal of their new console yesterday. Xbox One will launch later this year (surprise surprise) and will come packed with an amped up version of the Kinect (Kinect 2.0; creative!) no matter which model you buy. The new Xbox will sport 8GB of RAM, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple Medias Never Hurt; How Hawken Utilizes Graphic Novels to Push their Game Further</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 16:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video games are becoming a more apparent part of our culture every day; it used to be that society viewed gamers as overweight guys who still lived in their parents&#8217; basements. Now, we know that gamers come in all shapes, sizes, genders, and ethnicities, but there is still a large part of society that doesn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Male Privilege, It&#8217;s So Great to Have*: Guacamelee and Race in Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard the old saying, &#8220;If you can&#8217;t ask, then you can&#8217;t afford it&#8221;, but I want us to consider for a moment a slightly modified version that might say &#8220;If you have to ask, it might be true for you&#8221;. In the last couple of days I have experienced a couple of situations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Video Game Companies: Textual Analysis of Workplace Policies pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2672</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is inherently a discursive project. This means that change is restricted by the structures of language and by the conventions of language use. Change will be a product of what can be legitimately said (or written) in a specific context at a specific moment in time. (For those of you who haven’t been following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 55: Mommy Dearest: A Mother’s Day Tribute to Mamas Who Game With Their Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2663</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 15:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 55: Mommy Dearest: A Mother’s Day Tribute to Mamas Who Game With Their Kids (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we hear from mothers who game with their children (in myriad ways). We are joined this week by Jennifer, the mother of our own Alex Layne. We also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing Time at the DMV; Can Certain Praise Turn into Harm?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2654</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I had to go spend the afternoon at the Secretary of State (or as you may know it, the Department of Motor Vehicles). I know it’s an old and overused joke to talk about how much time you can spend in this god forsaken place, but the reason the joke is successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Monster Within: Papo &amp; Yo As A Meaningful Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2638</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Papo &#38; Yo (Minority Media, 2012) is a game that I have been interested in playing for a while. When the indie title appeared on PS3 about a year ago I did a bit of research to see what other folks were saying about the title. I was simultaneously intrigued and disturbed. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Video Game Companies: Textual Analysis of Workplace Policies pt 1</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2630</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businesses restrict their own growth potential when women are unintentionally excluded from key training and advancement opportunities. Whether the economy is up or down, who gets promoted — and who gets left behind — has substantial consequences for business success. Ilene H. Lang, President &#38; Chief Executive Officer, Catalyst (For those of you who haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bioshock Infinite, Pushing the Boundaries of a Female Character?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2621</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you’ve played through at least some of Bioshock Infinite, I mean c’mon it’s amazing, and you’ve probably read some articles on how everyone is praising the main female character, Elizabeth, as having been one of the most amazing A.I. companions in video game history. Some people have even gone so far to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write Here, Right Now?: On (Your) Writing for NYMG</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2611</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex, Nicole, and I get great pleasure out of the work that we do here at NYMG and we really love it when we hear that others get some joy out of the work that we do as well. Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer gives us the opportunity to share our passion with all of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis of Valve&#8217;s Employee Handbook and Code of Conduct</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2599</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who haven&#8217;t been following, this is the second to last installment in a series of posts where I analyze 5 different video game company policies or codes of conduct. In this series, I examine the connections between the company&#8217;s public perception, noted problems with harassment, and the company policies. My final post will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s on Deck? Weekend Gaming Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2595</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me (and Pea), the time has come. Tonight we will beat the White Witch (failed last night because I forgot to equip our new wand). There is no better time to beat a boss and end a game than a Friday night. After that Pea will be able to walk around explore to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 54: Raising a Self Saving Princess: An Interview with Mike Hoye</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2589</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 54: Raising a Self Saving Princess: An Interview with Mike Hoye (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk with Mike Hoye, the dad who hacked The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Walker so that his daughter could play as a female character. We had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis of Zynga&#8217;s Code of Conduct</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2577</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zynga is a particularly interesting company to study because they pioneered a new type of gaming company. Founded in 2007, Zynga led the social game revolution that continues to take in astonishing profits. As of 2013, Zynga has three of the top five games on Facebook and has 265 million active monthly users. After releasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play With Your Kids: Narrative Modding as Gaming Strategy in Ni No Kuni</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2560</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a little story of how a video game made me tell my little girl a lie. Pea and I are nearing the end of the main quest line of Ni No Kuni. And in true RPG fashion we are about 60 hours in. Going in to this game I knew that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want a Free Copy of Forza Horizon?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2554</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, as we mentioned on the show this week, we are running a contest from Tuesday, April 15th- Friday, May 3rd to see who wins a free copy of Forza Horizon for the XBox 360. In order to enter the contest all you have to do is leave a comment on a blog post here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis of Riot Games&#8217; Employee Handbook</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2528</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part of an ongoing series where I visually analyze video game company policy. It is incomplete when taken out of context from the rest of my diss and argument, but still, I think, interesting. With this work, I hope to be able to find an implementable way companies can begin to change the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 53: Lara Croft: Whimpering Idiot or Feminist Icon?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2541</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 53: Lara Croft: Whimpering Idiot or Feminist Icon? (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk about Tomb Raider! It&#8217;s a long episode and the first half is us talking about what we&#8217;ve been playing (a lot apparently) and the news. In our Tomb Raider spoiler we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mother&#8217;s Day Special!</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2537</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day is a month away and at Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer we are looking forward to a little something special to celebrate mamas all over. Are you a mother-child gaming team? Do you game together? Support each other’s gaming? Chat about gaming? Maybe you even share games or tell each other about the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She Has No Voice So I Must Scream: On Voice and Agency in Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2523</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Rhetoric]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural critique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So yeah, this post is going to be about voice. Voice has always been a huge issue with me. Not necessarily with how a voice sounds, but with the absence of voice and what that absence of voice actually means. It&#8217;s because of this that The Little Mermaid is one of my most hated Disney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatcha Playing This Weekend?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2478</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So things have been pretty quiet around here post conferences, but that&#8217;s because we have lots of fun things in the works! One of the things that we have coming at the beginning of the week is a Tomb Raider spoiler episode and we&#8217;ve been working hard to get some more fun interviews lined up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis of EA&#8217;s Employee Code of Conduct</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2462</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2462#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alex's Dissertation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (For those of you who did not read my last blog, this is part of my dissertation which focuses on a visual analysis of video game company policy. Obvs what I put forth in my diss is more nuanced and situated in academicy stuff, but this is more fun.) EA is comparable in size [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to You, Mr. Ebert; Thoughts on Video Game Criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2448</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2448#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roger ebert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video games as art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the news of Roger Ebert&#8217;s passing spread through the Internet, social media sites blew up with people thanking him for inspiring passion in movies, for being a true and honest movie reviewer, and for being a trusted voice in the world of film. Even President Obama had something to say about his passing, “For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Sharing Time: What Are You Playing Now?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2438</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2438#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharing time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what are you playing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To steal an idea from The Borderhouse blog, I would love to know what other people are playing this week. They call it Whatcha Playing Wednesday&#8230;.I call ours procrastinating when I don&#8217;t want to work It is especially hard when work is gaming. I was at GDC last week and played lots of great indie games and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis of Blizzard Inc. Employee Code of Conduct</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2408</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2408#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alex's Dissertation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games and Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R&D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a visualization based on word frequency. It has not been adjusted in any way. For my diss, I am using a two-pronged approach for analyzing gaming industry company policy. The first is a hermenuetic analysis and the second is a visual analysis. Using various methods of data visualization and postmodern mapping, visualizing company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artistic Renderings&#8217; How Cover Art Sells a Game</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2397</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2397#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[360]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PS3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beyond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beyond: two souls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cover art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ellen page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantic dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t been following the development of Beyond: Two Souls you should probably start looking into it. Not only does this game look to be one of the most visually spectacular games I&#8217;ve seen in a long time, it&#8217;s striving to become a game that breaks all the molds that video games seem to fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 52: The Proof in the Pudding: Doing the Academic Gamer Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2387</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2387#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 52: The Proof in the Pudding: Doing the Academic Gamer Thing (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk a bit about our presentations that were delivered at the 4Cs conference in Las Vegas last week and share our presentations with you. While Samantha&#8217;s recorded presentation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casino Gaming: Racist Slot Machine Themes (as if there were any other kind)</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2373</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2373#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, Nicole Marie and I were in Vegas last week giving a talk at the CCCC’s conference along with Matt Barton and Samantha Blackmon (in absentia). You may not, however, know that I am an avid, avid gambler. I play poker at least once a week in a live game, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play With Your Kids: Ni No Kuni: The Wrath of the White Witch</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2345</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2345#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Play With Your Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[games and learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve kind of fallen behind in a lot of things in recent weeks and one of them has definitely been my posts on what it&#8217;s like to game with children. Not as in having children, but physically with a child. As we wait for the new Lego City Wii U game to release our Wii [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Short Shelf Life?: On Aging and Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2337</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2337#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[games and education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time listening to  other gaming podcasts and a bit less time watching video podcasts about games. A lot of the folks that I watch and listen to have a lot in common with me older gamers (Gamers with Jobs), female gamers (Ladies of Leet), gamers who are parents, teachers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games and Feminist Research Methodology pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2328</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2328#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alex's Dissertation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed part 1 of Games and Feminist Research Methodology, I’ll give you a brief overview of what I’m up to. My literature review is set up in a way to put fields into conversation that really aren’t in conversation. I make the argument that the research done in game studies has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the Moon: On Love and Loss in Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2301</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2301#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[game commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is brought on by two facts this week: 1) video games can be powerful rhetorical tools and 2) I lost someone who means the world to me this week. So if it gets a bit rambly bear with me. I had been playing through Freebird Games&#8216; Indie RPG, To the Moon, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Casual Revolution&#8221; and Video Game Exceptionalism</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2282</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2282#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished reading Jesper Juul&#8217;s A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players. For anyone interested in the casual/hardcore debate, I highly recommend this quick read (about 150 pages excluding research data). Since I&#8217;ve talked numerous times about the casual/hardcore debate, most often focusing on the gender implications, I thought it would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Playing Women; Let&#8217;s Get More Female Protagonists</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2288</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2288#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[360]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PS3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epic games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eric perna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female protagonist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gears of war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a woman who plays games I find myself constantly wishing that more games had playable female characters in them. This wish does not stop me from playing the games I love, but when they start to embrace the playable female character I get really excited. This recently occurred when Gears of War 3 came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games and Feminist Research Methodology pt. 1</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2274</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2274#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alex's Dissertation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games and Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games and Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to find provocative topics to write about each week when I am drowning in dissertation work. Right now I&#8217;m working on my literature review, which though often a throwaway chapter, is crucial to my argument. The lack of overlap between important fields, and the ways I suggest we intersect them, is at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 51: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Psychoanalyze Me: A Romantic Valentine&#8217;s Day Episode&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2264</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2264#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 51: Don&#8217;t Psychoanalyze Me: A Romantic Valentine&#8217;s Day Episode (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk about all of the usual stuff and some deeply twisted stuff under the guise of talking about our three favorite relationships in video games. Links of Note: Critics say not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games, STEM, and Representation</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2244</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2244#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think it’s important to recognize the connections between the video game industry and other STEM fields. Too often video games get forgotten because they’re, well, games. They are play. They aren’t serious. (All of which of course is contentious.) Brilliant work is being done about the gender inequities in STEM fields that we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Eat Dog Food!; Jonathan Blow on Games as Art (Again)</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2227</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Rhetoric]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[art games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Blow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicole&#8217;s post on video games and art has brought up something for me that is a bit of a sore spot. And that would be Jonathan Blow&#8217;s latest whack-a-doodle (yes, that is the technical term) rant on Twitter about &#8220;art&#8221; games (defined seemingly as those made by him) vs. AAA titles (aka dog food). On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say it Again; Video Games and Art</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2215</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bioware]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Dynamics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DeviantArt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragon Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass Effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomb raider]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer we&#8217;ve talked a lot about the debate over whether or not video games can be considered art. Some haters still say they aren&#8217;t, but I&#8217;m pretty sure the rest of the world has come to conclude that, yes video games are their own brand of art. Recently, it seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Accounts Fair and True: North Korea, Anne Frank, and COD: MW3</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2196</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Rhetoric]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[game developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[north korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bear with me for a bit while I get to video games. We need a little context here. I remember watching a prime time news show back in 2004 where &#8220;well trained&#8221; Korean teens exclaimed that the Americans were Nazis, GW Bush was Hitler, and that America must be destroyed to bring about world peace. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 50: We&#8217;re Golden!: Celebrating Episode 50 With Meagan Marie</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2188</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2188#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cosplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 50: We&#8217;re Golden!: Celebrating Episode 50 With Meagan Marie (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) Our 50th episode where we are joined by Meagan Marie, community manager for Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics). Meagan she talks about her work at Crystal Dynamics, in the industry in general, and her famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future? Or Unintended Hype Train?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2179</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PS3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[announcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaikai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright alright, everyone calm down. Just because Sony left us an eerie message on the PlayStation blog yesterday doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re getting the announcement we think we are. If you haven&#8217;t seen the video yet watch it here: Yup, a 45 second video filled with a whole lot of nothing, but promises of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reflection on “Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers” by Emilio Castilla</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2171</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2171#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers” by Emilio Castilla is a report done in 2008 at MIT to explore the literature on merit-based reward systems. Castilla uses huge amounts of data that “empirically establishes the existence of this bias and shows that gender, race, and nationality differences continue to affect salary growth” (1480). He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Space 3 demo; You&#8217;re Definitely Not in Kansas anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2158</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2158#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[360]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dead space 3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isaac clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you listen to the podcast you have heard me say that I played the Dead Space 3 demo this past week and that instead of telling you about it, I wanted you to just go out and play it. Hopefully by now you&#8217;ve had some time to either play it or at the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama, Can We Make Humans?: First Thoughts on the WiiU</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2132</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2132#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start out by saying that I have the cutest kid in the world (and while the little girl with the test tubes is cute, she is not mine but the rest of the images are of my Peanut). If you have kids I am sure that you think the same thing or that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 49: The Choices We Make: The Walking Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2125</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 49: The Choices We Make: The Walking Dead (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we totally spoil TellTale Games&#8217; The Walking Dead (all 5 episodes). We discuss the choices that we made in each episode and work through our own WD issues. We&#8217;ve all played it now come see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down the Rabbit Hole: #1reasonwhy Women Aren&#8217;t In the Games Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2112</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2112#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[game developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes my brain works much like the horrible Bing search engine commercial where people jump from tangential topic to tangential topic based on keywords and loose connections. Today&#8217;s post comes from just such an idea jump that I experienced today. It started when a student in my Gender and Technology seminar mentioned Phyllis Schlafly and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games and Social Bonding</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2086</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[360]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PS3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-op]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[couch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the national debate over whether or not violent video games make players more prone to violence, I wanted to discuss a different, more happy side effect of video games; the bonding effect. Anyone who has played a game can attest that there is a deep social bond created through the act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Walking Dead: Bring on the Tactical Bacon</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2097</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2097#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update 3: After a restart, steam used my &#8220;cloud&#8221; save to replace my local save. Which deleted all of my progress for the entire day. So my journey ends here for now. I got to episode 3, but am back at the very beginning. So, I&#8217;m done. Unless anyone knows how to get my games [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Walking Dead: A Sunday Liveblog by Alex!</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2092</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2092#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, we here at NYMG decided to give you all a special treat this Sunday. Starting at 10am eastern, nymg-er Alex Layne will be playing The Walking Dead from start to finish, complete with video stream, audio updates, and blog reflections. This will be an all day experience, so get the cheetos and mountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Act Childish!; Play With Your Kids!</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2077</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games and Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-op gaming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it looks like it bears saying again. Parents should be playing with their children. Not just when they are little and cute and want to play tea party, Legos, or pirate fairy princess, but when they are (pre)pubescent and cranky. When you really start to wonder if they were switched out for your real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scapegoating Trolls: Sexism as an Institutional Norm in the Gaming Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2072</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2072#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Women in the game industry, or women as gamers, have been an increasingly popular topic in the media. Just this week, two friends who have nothing to do with gaming sent me articles about women in gaming that they came across in their daily non-game reading. This is a positive thing, no matter how you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 48: And the Award Goes To: Our Best and Worst of 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2066</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2066#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 48: And the Award Goes To: Our Best and Worst of 2012 (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about favorite games and biggest disappointments of 2012. We also share our wildest predictions for 2013. Make sure that you bookmark this one so that you can come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Forward to the New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2061</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2061#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lest you thought that Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer had fallen off the face of the earth&#8230;Alex, Nicole, and I are taking a little family time for the holidays. We are going to be back and better than ever at the start of the new year. We are really exited about our next episode and planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women and Cosplay; How Not to Cross the Slut Line</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2027</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2027#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anna moleva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bioshock infinite]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah yes, cosplaying. The act of dressing up as one&#8217;s favorite character; whether they be from a video game, comic book, movie, television show, or any form of anime (and oh so many other forms of media). When convention season comes around you can always expect to see people dressed up, for better or for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work by Anne Balsamo</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2024</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2024#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have done many game reviews here at NYMG, but this is the first book review. I felt compelled to write this review after reading Balsamo’s book. To give you an anecdotal idea of how much I liked it, I sat down with a cup of coffee Saturday morning and barely moved until I finished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Break in the Clouds, Progress in the Industry *Trigger Warning*</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=2012</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy shit. Somebody listened. And it wasn&#8217;t just an indie game developer with nothing to lose, it was a big name AAA developer. Kotaku&#8217;s Patricia Hernandez published an article yesterday (Nov. 30) on how the writers for Dragon Age 3 actually removed a portion of the game because of a group of women&#8217;s input. Apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 47: Leaving Ourselves Behind: An Interview with The Able Gamers Foundation&#8217;s Mark Barlet</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1986</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 47: Leaving Ourselves Behind: An Interview with The Able Gamers Foundation&#8217;s Mark Barlet (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk to Mark Barlet, CEO of the Able Gamers Foundation and the winner of the 2012 Paul G. Hearne Award from AAPD (American Association of People With Disabilities), about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#1ReasonWhy: Women in Games Speak Out</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1975</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week women in the gaming industry took to Twitter in order to expose sexism in the industry. While many men and women alike used this opportunity to share their own experiences and to demonstrate their support for their female colleagues. And it all started with one simple hashtag #1reasonwhy. From that hashtag sprang #1reasonmentor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marking Time: Changing Perceptions of Resources For An Aging Gamer</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1971</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all about time. It always has been, always will be. When we are kids time never goes fast enough and as we get older time goes too fast. Every day Pea reminds me that a trip to the store, waiting for me to take the trash out, or waiting for dinner to be be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2 Slut Line: Promiscuity and Female Protagonists</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1961</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who may have missed our last podcast, we had an incredible interview with author Christa Charter. In the interview, Charter narrates the struggle between portraying a female protagonist who is sexual, and likes her sexuality, and one who is a slut. She found in her research that there seemed to be a 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYMG Holiday Wish List</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1901</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again when all young (and not so young) gamers hearts turn to gifting. With Black Friday just mere days away we have brought our collective minds to the table to come up with some gifting ideas for the techie minded, fledglings, or wannabes in your life. We like to think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call of Duty: Bro Ops; Virtual Bullying Entering the Real World</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1938</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author&#8217;s note: My views in no way shape or form represent the views of my employer as a company. They are my own personal opinions and should not be associated with the company any further than by the fact that I work there and these experiences come from their employing me. As a self-proclaimed lover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 46: Schooled!: An Interview with Christa Charter, Author of Schooled: A Lexy Cooper Videogame Mystery</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1926</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 46: Schooled!: An Interview with Christa Charter, Author of Schooled: A Lexy Cooper Videogame Mystery (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk to Christa Charter about her latest novel, her time as a community manager at XBox, and women in the games industry. Schooled is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop for Games on Black Friday like a Pro</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1875</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an avid black Friday shopper, I decided to write a post discussing my strategy for maximizing savings and minimizing frustration on black Friday. NYMG always has the best tips for which games to buy for your loved ones, and now we can be your one-stop site for everything video games and holiday buying.  Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Games and Gameplay: Writing and Rhetoric as Bridge Building</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1877</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t figured it out, I have a thing for video games and I have for as long as I can remember. Going all of the way back to handheld blips on a virtual (though painted on) football field that I fought over with my cousins. And now, three decades later I still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Born An Assassin: On Minorities, Agency, and Legitimacy in Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1844</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been waiting a long time for Assassin&#8217;s Creed III (and ACIII:Liberation, but I&#8217;ll save that for another post). I pre-ordered my copy, mapped out my gameplay time, and did the happy dance when I learned that my mother would be visiting during the release window so that Pea would be entertained during my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 45: (Corrected) All I Ever Needed to Know About History I Learned From Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1862</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 45: All I Ever Needed to Know About History I Learned From Video Games  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about history and video games, more specifically Assassin&#8217;s Creed III and Assassin&#8217;s Creed III: Liberation as &#8220;historical&#8221; texts. Links of Note: GameStop PR Chief embezzled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Games Become a Part of Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1826</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As technology advances, video game developers are able to portray realism in their games much more accurately: graphics make video games look like movies, AIs interact with characters at an uncanny level, and the stories can hit closer to home than ever before. Still, some people will always look at video games as unrealistic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Blaming the Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1815</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a GameStop employee I have to be extremely aware of the ESRB Rating system and what each rating means. Employees are required to test on the rating system before they can begin their employment and are trained to take the ratings very seriously. Every time a M (mature) rated game is entered into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screw You Nintendo, I Am a Gamer!</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1775</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nintendo&#8217;s new advertising campaign was clearly intended to draw in more &#8220;users&#8221; of it&#8217;s 3DS (XL). Something that is especially necessary in light of it&#8217;s sketchy sales history, but I&#8217;m not quite sure it&#8217;s going to have the effect that they thought it would. The first two spots in the campaign show Gabrielle Douglass sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halo 4 and the Bombshell A.I.</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1788</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halo 4 is releasing in just over two weeks and we&#8217;ll be seeing the return of our favorite hero, Master Chief and his A.I. sidekick Cortana. We&#8217;ll also see a few changes to the game as a new enemy emerges and the reliable Cortana seems to be losing her mind. AI&#8217;s in this world have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extra Life 2012: Play Games, Heal Kids (Really!)</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1778</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time someone asks you what good ever comes out of playing video games you can tell them video gamers help save children&#8217;s lives! While most people are about 6 hours away from finishing up their 24 hour gaming run for Extra Life and Children&#8217;s Miracle Network, we are just getting geared up for ours. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play On Playa: What it Means to Play Games As Research</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1770</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have seen me rant before about peoples’ perception of my gaming as research practices. This time around I want to do something a little different. I recently saw a call for a special issue of the journal Well Played that wanted people to answer the question “What does it mean to be well played?”. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 44: I See Dead People: Games to Play On All Hallow&#8217;s Eve (Or Any Other Time)</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1766</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 44: I See Dead People: Games to Play On All Hallow&#8217;s Eve (Or Any Other Time)  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about scary games that we recommend (or not) for this bewitching season. We go through some AAA titles and Indie titles alike. Sam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desensitivity? Apathy? Or Other?: Murder vs. Rape in Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1760</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently there has been some discussion among our blog readers about why we find rape in video games more atrocious than murder in video games. By most accounts, murder is worse than rape—certainly the US legal system thinks so. So why do many of us feel comfortable killing over and over, but would feel very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cake is a Lie: Post-Racialism in Assassin&#8217;s Creed III and Games Advertising</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1735</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cake is a lie. Especially when you are talking about having your cake and eating it too. For years video game developers and company execs have been telling us that their use of racial stereotypes in games was not as racist as we wanted to make it seem. That it really wasn&#8217;t racist at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semantics and Silence: What is “Rape” in a Video Game? *trigger*</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1621</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1621#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[***super super duper trigger warning: rape, victim shaming, assholes*** &#160; Recently there has been a big debate about the depiction of rape in video games. I’ll recap quickly for those who haven’t heard. In the upcoming Tomb Raider game, there is a scene in which Lara Croft has to defend herself against an oncoming attacker. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resident Evil: 6, Another Capcom Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1693</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Tuesday (Oct. 2) marked the release of the much anticipated Resident Evil: 6 and the internet was immediately flooded with reviews claiming RE:6 to be the worst in the series yet. One review on Destructoid by Jim Sterling even said, &#8220;If any consistently good thing can be said of Resident Evil 6, it&#8217;s that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Play Becomes Serious; Time to Stand Up</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1715</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week  Democrat Congressional (Maine) candidate Colleen Lachowicz was outed by Republicans. Lachowicz is not, as far as we know, gay, but she is a gamer. Lachowicz&#8217;s opponents have started their own site, Colleen&#8217;s World (You can Google it because I refuse to give them an active link), in an attempt to discredit her as a viable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Just Too Sensitive: Racism in Games and the Gaming Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1660</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1660#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a shocker&#8230;racism is alive and well in the video gaming community. We are growing more and more accustomed to seeing it perpetuated among gamers and in the video games themselves. Oftentimes we find ourselves blaming the use of racist and sexist stereotypes in video games on a lack of diversity within dev shops themselves. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 43: It&#8217;s All About Me: Narrative Modding, Feminism, and Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1669</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 43: It&#8217;s All About Me: Narrative Modding, Feminism, and Games  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about narrative spaces outside of games and how they can be feminist tools. Yeah, and there were pandas&#8230;lots of pandas. Links of Note: Get Halo 4 armor if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Video Games Art? A Vlog</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1625</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following video asks the question of whether or not video games are art. Enjoy! &#160; &#160; Games featured: Journey, Bastion, Braid, Sword and Sorcery, Limbo and The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom.]]></description>
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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Need No &#8216;Girlfriend Mode&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1641</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1641#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the release of Borderlands 2 last week I found myself trying to figure out how I was going to play my favorite split-screen co-op without having a reliable internet connection due to my recent move back home. I quickly recruited my younger sister to play the game with me despite her inexperience playing video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 42: The WiiU Announcement Episode Recap</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1633</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1633#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 42: The WiiU Announcement Episode Recap  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we do a quick recap of the awesome episode that didn&#8217;t record. We talk about the WiiU launch announcement as well as the usual stuff. Links of Note: Kojima Productions is hiring for studio in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Fail At Feminism? If Yes, Are We?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1563</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[geek feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about some recent activity that has been flourishing because of a blog post by Nice Girl on the blog Nice Girls Like Sex Too. The blog post, titled “The Dark Side of Geek Feminism” reports the perception of one woman on attending OSCON (a foss conference). Rather than the post being about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roll a D6: Or, A Nerd Among Geeks?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1600</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1600#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year I went to GenCon. There were dice, cards, and game boards everywhere. And I loved it. There. I said. Out loud. Or wrote it. I started playing role playing games back in high school. Back when teenagers were rumored to dying in caves in our own backyard (Michigan State University) while taking it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 41: What It Means to Be a Female Gamer</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1594</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 41: What It Means to Be a Female Gamer  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about what it means (to each of us) to be a woman gamer. The episode where we share a bit of what being gamers and women simultaneously means to us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYMG Playthrough #1: Lollipop Chainsaw</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1584</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back we thought out loud about how much fun it would be to do a group play-through of a section of a game and just chat about it while it happened. And then Nicole moved away and things got a bit more tricky. Well, we finally finagled something and so we are bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 40: Call Me!: The Listener Email Episode</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1579</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 40: Call Me!: The Listener Email Episode  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we answer some great questions from listeners. After the usual sign off we added the audio from our video mail question and answer so don&#8217;t miss that! And our video email:]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Forward to Episode 40: Listener Mail and a Special Something</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1573</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the deal. Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer is doing a reader mail show this week (and we are planning a special something to release on the same day). So if you have had a burning question or comment for us, now is the time to ask it! Send email questions or audio files (we&#8217;ll read and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake Gamers: The Quest for Authenticity in Faked Pictures of Faked Gaming?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1552</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming off the conversations we have been having lately on the podcast about booth babes, I thought another pertinent topic is the “fake gamer of the week” segment found at Kotaku. In this weekly blog, writers find ads and stock photos and write pithy responses mocking all of the things wrong with the photos. Often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 39: How Much Is That Booth Babe in the Window: Booth Babes, Feminism, and Context</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1544</link>
		<comments>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1544#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 39: How Much Is That Booth Babe in the Window: Booth Babes, Feminism, and Context  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about booth babes in the larger context of feminism and sexism in the games industry. Confessions of a sometimes booth babe Man Declares Love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between Two Worlds: History, Concubinage, and Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Liberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s article at Kotaku about the representation of African Americans in Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Liberation hit really close to home because we were looking at two sides of the same coin. While Evan Narcisse over at Kotaku thinks that the Canadian developers are off point with their depiction of a few Black folks walking around New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 38: Teacher, There&#8217;s a Game in My Classroom!: Games and Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 38: Teacher, There&#8217;s a Game in My Classroom!: Games and Learning  (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about games and education in like of some new moves in the field from the likes of EA, Valve, and the White House. OUYA Kickstarter page EA&#8217;s Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 37: Whoa, V*gina!: Lollipop Chainsaw, Tomb Raider, and the Need for Sarkeesian&#8217;s Cultural Critique</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1508</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 37: &#8220;Whoa V*gina: Lollipop Chainsaw, Tomb Raider, and the Need for Sarkeesian&#8217;s Cultural Critique&#8221; (&#8220;Save As&#8221; to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we segue from last week&#8217;s episode to this week&#8217;s by talking about rape imagery in the new Tomb Raider trailer, our playing of Lollipop Chainsaw, and Anita Sarkeesian&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To DLC, or Not to DLC?</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1447</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That truly is the question. Downloadable Content, or DLC, has become the norm for any mainstream game and offers extra content that the original game didn&#8217;t initially offer. While DLC seems like a great idea the price point of most DLC has become a contended issue among the gaming community. Is it really worth $14.99 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GLS: Wrap Up</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1495</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we have just returned from the fabulous GLS (Games, Learning, ad Society) Conference at UW Madison. It is really a great conference: a good mix of professionals from industry, developers, academics, researchers, and K-12 teachers; lots of good tech to check out and play with (as anyone who got a chance to play Johann [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“I Didn’t ask for this”: On (Bio)ethics, Rhetoric, and Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1420</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr. b.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I promised that I would post the talk that I gave on games and bioethics at RSA. Now I have finally gotten around to doing it! What follows is (loosely) the text of my talk along with the slides from my presentation which have been strategically placed. I have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Some) Salvation in the Form of BBC News</title>
		<link>http://www.samanthablackmon.net/notyourmamasgamer/?p=1440</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately we have focused quite a bit on the issue of sexual harassment in video games. It&#8217;s a huge issue that has been a problem for a very long time with no reprieve. While we try to our hardest to bring light to the issue, we are just a small voice that doesn&#8217;t reach to [...]]]></description>
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