Episode 50: We’re Golden!: Celebrating Episode 50 With Meagan Marie (“Save As” 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 [...]
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Episode 50: We’re Golden!: Celebrating Episode 50 With Meagan Marie
February 3rd, 2013 
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Down the Rabbit Hole: #1reasonwhy Women Aren’t In the Games Industry
January 23rd, 2013 dr. b. 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’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 [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Uncategorized Tags: feminism, game developers, sexism, women in games 2 Comments »
A Break in the Clouds, Progress in the Industry *Trigger Warning*
December 3rd, 2012 Nicole Marie Holy shit. Somebody listened. And it wasn’t just an indie game developer with nothing to lose, it was a big name AAA developer. Kotaku’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’s input. Apparently [...]
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Episode 36: “‘I Raped You!’: Rape Culture and The Mis-Education of the Gamer”
June 8th, 2012 dr. b. Episode 36: “‘I Raped You!’: Rape Culture and The Mis-Education of the Gamer” (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The catalyst for this week’s episode was Patricia Hernandez’s Kotaku article “Three Words I Said to the Man I Defeated in Gears of War That I’ll Never Say Again“. In this episode we talk about [...]
Don’t Put That in Your Mouth!; Or, Mass Effect 3 and Prostibots
June 6th, 2012 dr. b. I am a mediocre Mass Effect fangirl at best. I quit the first game because the controls and the damned planet scanning were just too friggin’ painful. I plowed into ME2, with its improved control scheme, with gusto that only died down a bit, and I powered through ME3 with a furor that I haven’t [...]
Posted in Miscellany, Uncategorized Tags: cultural critique, feminism, sexuality, women in games 2 Comments »
Episode 32 : No Man? No Problems?: Female-Female Character Interactions in Games
March 30th, 2012 dr. b. Episode 32 : “No Man? No Problems?: Female-Female Character Interactions in Games” (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where Sam calls other people’s children feral and we talk about interaction between female characters in video games. There is more talk of Mass Effect 3, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Skyrim, [...]
Episode 30: An NYMG Interview with Game Designer Sheri Graner Ray
February 28th, 2012 alexlayne “If you ask people to hire who they like, what you end up with is a homogenous team. People like people who are just like themselves.” An interview with game designer Sheri Graner Ray Sheri Graner Ray Interview (click here to listen, right click to download directly to iTunes) Transcript: Alex: Hi I’m Alex Layne [...]
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Vagina Envy: Misogyny and the Gaming Community
February 23rd, 2012 alexlayne As if we needed more reasons to do the research we’re doing. In last few weeks Bioware writer Jennifer Hepler as been at the center of a major shitstorm. For those living under a rock, here is what’s been happening: An interview with Hepler from more than 5 years ago (October 11, 2006) surfaced a couple [...]
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