Added: 04.08.2015 19:18 | 15 views | 0 comments


Matt M. from PC Gaming Enthusiast challenges current representations of sexual content and intercourse in gaming. He writes: "The message, especially to younger gamers, is that you should be having lots of sex, and if you're not, you're not doing it right."

Added: 03.08.2015 13:00 | 16 views | 0 comments

Game Over, man

Added: 02.08.2015 2:20 | 19 views | 0 comments


A look at the Dead Rising Watchtower movie and how it reaffirms the idea that video game based movies just aren't needed.

Added: 31.07.2015 18:18 | 18 views | 0 comments


Marcus Estrada writes: "If you're looking around on Steam, GOG, or YouTube then you've probably seen a fair bit of documentary-style work done on the topic of video games. Invisibility Blues: Exploring Race in Video Games is an upcoming video series hoping to explore and critique "race and representation in contemporary games and game culture."

Added: 31.07.2015 6:19 | 19 views | 0 comments


Richard Drummond of Gaming Tech United writes: "Video games have the power to influence the user in a way that movies and books simply do not. The fact that video games are an interactive medium give them a depth that other mediums can't achieve. That being said, this depth can make us tie our emotions to events, or even characters themselves. Let's take a look at five different times video games made us tear up like little babies."

Added: 31.07.2015 1:18 | 20 views | 0 comments


Rocksteady Studios finally completed their Batman trilogy following the release of Arkham Knight. They have accomplished a lot with the games, creating a combat system that rejuvenated the action genre, while also proving that story still has a big part to play in video games. Most of all, the Arkham trilogy proved that licensed games can compete with the very best. Or was this just a one off fluke?

Added: 28.07.2015 20:18 | 24 views | 0 comments


Video Games Made Me Do It: "Todays video games are doing an absolute horrendous job in portraying real men. Their depiction of the male form is, to say the least, cruel."

Added: 28.07.2015 6:18 | 13 views | 0 comments


Games Asylum takes at look Richard Stanton's new book - A Brief History of Video Games.

Added: 27.07.2015 16:19 | 24 views | 0 comments


If you like playing medieval-themed video games, you might not be just some harmless nerd you might be a nerd who is also kind of a white supremacist. At least thats the opinion of Victoria Cooper, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leeds in England, who presented a paper titled Playing Politics: Exploring Nationalism and Conservatism in Fantasy Video Games at the International Medieval Congress earlier this month.