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Many games serve up female characters in ways that are by and large a disservice to us all as well as gaming as an artform. Is Destiny one of them?

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WASDuk's Fantaesque takes a look at the piratical womenfolk of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

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With Dead or Alive 5 coming to the PC, a thrum has erupted in the modding community as many eagerly await the release. Developers ask that fans be PG in their modding, but how naive is that? AUTOMATON's Peter Martin affirms: very.

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Last week, Sam Roberts, ethics officer for Reaxxion spoke with game designer and blogger Vox Day, who has consistently been one of the biggest supporters of Reaxxion. While best known for his popular blogs Vox Popoli and Alpha Game, Vox is also a longtime veteran of the gaming industry whose work predates the original Dreamcast. Hes also the founder of the publishing company Castalia House, for whom this author has done some minor unpaid proofreading work. After many years, hes returning to game design with a new company, Alpenwolf. Their first project is First Sword, a combat management game where you control a stable of gladiators in the fantasy world of Selenoth. Sam talked to Vox about his new game, his new 3D tabletop engine, women in gaming, and why the industry has become so social justice warrior-friendly in the past fifteen years.

Added: 06.03.2015 6:09 | 8 views | 0 comments


Last year saw the closure of a number of websites covering video games. With more and more big name sites either downsizing, or closing all together, the launch of new projects gets peoples attention. Offworld.com is the latest site to be launched, backed by recognizable names. Leigh Alexander (Gamasutra) and Laura Hudson (WIRED) are both spearing heading a new site that's '' an inclusive site where games are for everyone''. The mission statement of Offworld.com reads as follows:

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Super Hero MOBA title Infinite Crisis invites you yo go back to basics with a Mecha Wonder Woman costume thats a blast from her pre-upgrade past.

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Austin Flynn writes: "There's been much discussion across the internet recently about male privilege in video games. Men don't have to worry about discrimination based on their sex, they're never sexually harassed online by the opposite gender because of the way their voice sounds and the validity of their 'gaming cred' is never on the line because of the chromosomes that make them who they are. One huge negative to this male-oriented world is the over-abundance of male protagonists that fill the role of main 'good guy': the person the spotlight is almost always on and, more importantly, the character that players will spend a vast majority of their time controlling and connecting with."

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For the uninitiated, GamerGate is a perplexing term. Used in and out of context, GamerGate is an issue within our privacy-stripped world in which harassment has become a standard element of gaming in the modern era. Meet the woman who has 45 death threats to her name, and take part in the biggest change in culture that gaming needs today.

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"26 years ago, Kirsty Payne entered the games industry with Codemasters, working alongside Richard and David Darling in the days of Spectrucm, C64 and Atari ST."

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Its both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects. Almost every episode of the YouTube series Tropes Vs Women in Video Games includes a variation on these clear and unambiguous words. Spoken by the cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian, they provide a foreword to her discussions of the games industry and its treatment of female characters. Writer and academic Thryn Henderson. The games industry [has been] insular for so long that theres been a lot of gravitating towards the same goals and ideals, she says. The attempt to discuss or deconstruct that now is seen as censorship - because people infer from that new discussion that they arent allowed to like those things anymore.