Back in January, Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits (GJAIF) (also called GameJournos for a while) ended its run. Ben Paddon, the man behind it, called it quits after nearly two years because his “heart just isn’t in it anymore” and is moving on to other things. This is sad, because GJAIF – or something like … Continue reading
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A Brief Discussion On Explaining Transgender Issues to Children, cite: Birdo
It’s damn hard to convince children that Birdo was (or is still) a male character. “Birdo is a boy.” “But she looks like a girl.” “But he isn’t.” “But she’s wearing a bow and is pink. She’s a girl.” “Listen to the voice in Mario Kart. That’s a throaty whisper a woman can’t make.” “But … Continue reading
An Update That Promises Further Updates
So NCsoft’s Q4 2012 earning results are out now and although City of Heroes / Villains saw an increase in revenue after going F2P, it isn’t the huge jump you might expect to see. This could be one of the reasons why Paragon Studios has made the move of introducing variable ratio randomised rewards you … Continue reading
Reading the MMO Tea Leaves for 2012
In previous years I’ve spent a lot of time reviewing and writing up a year’s worth of Massively.com / other MMO sites news articles. Although this is very useful from an information point of view (particularly the “oh, I’d forgotten about that” articles) it takes a very long time. So, this year I’m still doing … Continue reading
McNamara On LA Noire Development: “Nobody Died Making It”
Brendan McNamara, former head of now-defunct Team Bondi, has been interviewed by Eurogamer. Part of that interview covered the end of the studio and his opinion about some of the allegations levelled at him as the head of the studio as being a “bully” among other things. You can read the interview here, but be … Continue reading
Duke Nukem Forever: Smacking As a Discipline Technique
Much like Lum is the master of free rape MMO, the search term that brings most people to my blog is apparently “pimp slap” since I used that reference when talking about Duke Nukem Forever’s Capture The Babe multiplayer mode. Sorry folks, nothing but disappointment if you are looking for that – all we have … Continue reading
Gentlemen Exclude Women From Gaming For Their Own Protection
One news story doing the rounds is a Battlefield 3 launch event in Texas that has banned women from attending. Initially it was on the grounds of not wanting to expose women to “immature, misogynistic male-gamers” before unashamedly backpedalling revising their position to the event being a “gentleman’s retreat“. Others have addressed the matter more … Continue reading
My WTF For The Day: Kraft’s Miracle Whip Divorce Competition
From WARC.com: “As part of this scheme, Kraft is to run a competition through which it plans to help couples pay for a divorce if they can prove their decision was at least partly related to conflicting views on Miracle Whip.” The mistress, drug abuse, child neglect and petty theft were all okay, but not … Continue reading
A Brief Study in Gender-based Appearances of Survival Horror Monsters, cite: Shadows of the Damned
A brief overview, without much thought to the exceptions that exist and using screenshots from Shadows of the Damned to illustrate: Male monsters in survival horror video games are big and vicious, covered in various attachments / appendages that hint at the terrible torture awaiting any player who dare cross their path. This is Shadows … Continue reading
It’s Been An Interesting Week
A number of things happened this week in the realm of superhero MMOs. Knowing how much I can write on about things, I’ll try to keep it brief. How Now, Mr Cao? Oh, so childish. But anyway: Chris Cao was rumoured to have left DC Universe Online on DCUO’s own forums, so it would have … Continue reading
World Class Villains 