We’ve all heard the old saying, “If you can’t ask, then you can’t afford it”, but I want us to consider for a moment a slightly modified version that might say “If you have to ask, it might be true for you”. In the last couple of days I have experienced a couple of situations [...]
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Episode 53: Lara Croft: Whimpering Idiot or Feminist Icon?
April 16th, 2013 
dr. b. Episode 53: Lara Croft: Whimpering Idiot or Feminist Icon? (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode in which we talk about Tomb Raider! It’s a long episode and the first half is us talking about what we’ve been playing (a lot apparently) and the news. In our Tomb Raider spoiler we [...]
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Tags: gender, podcast, podcasts, race, racism, rape, sexual assault 
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She Has No Voice So I Must Scream: On Voice and Agency in Video Games
April 15th, 2013 dr. b. 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’s because of this that The Little Mermaid is one of my most hated Disney [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Uncategorized Tags: cultural critique, diversity, feminism, gender, race 5 Comments »
I Was Born An Assassin: On Minorities, Agency, and Legitimacy in Video Games
November 5th, 2012 dr. b. I have been waiting a long time for Assassin’s Creed III (and ACIII:Liberation, but I’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 [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Uncategorized Tags: Assassin's Creed, cultural critique, diversity, race 4 Comments »
Episode 45: (Corrected) All I Ever Needed to Know About History I Learned From Video Games
November 4th, 2012 dr. b. Episode 45: All I Ever Needed to Know About History I Learned From Video Games (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about history and video games, more specifically Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation as “historical” texts. Links of Note: GameStop PR Chief embezzled [...]
The Cake is a Lie: Post-Racialism in Assassin’s Creed III and Games Advertising
October 12th, 2012 dr. b. 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’t racist at [...]
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Between Two Worlds: History, Concubinage, and Assassin’s Creed: Liberation
July 24th, 2012 dr. b. Yesterday’s article at Kotaku about the representation of African Americans in Assassin’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 [...]
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Called to Duty in Call Of Duty?: On Culture, Immersion, and Lack in Video Games
February 20th, 2012 dr. b. Chaim Gingold over at the Expressive Intelligence Studio blog has posted a bit about a lecture that Cecil Brown delivered at UC- Santa Cruz entitled Games Blacks Love to Play. It is an interesting piece and a fascinating idea as a whole. Brown traces game play through 3 historical periods of African American presence in [...]
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Supremacy, Confederate Flags, and Simulations: On Realizing the Power of Video Games
January 21st, 2012 dr. b. Sometimes things stick with you for a reason…bits of a comedy show, a disturbing news story, and the hundreds of hours that you spend playing farming/social simulations on a handheld device. And sometimes those things come together in a perfect storm that allow you to write a post like the one that you are about [...]
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Episode 20: Everybody Wants to Be Master Chief: On Masculinity and Intersectionality
October 7th, 2011 dr. b. Episode 20: Everybody Wants to Be Master Chief: On Masculinity and Intersectionality (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about masculinity and intersectionality. Men, race, sexuality, and anything else that comes to mind. Links of Note: Sponsor Sam or Alex in the Extra Life Charity: Every time [...]
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