Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Angels Fall First is the latest in a long line of games—from Battlecruiser 3000AD to Planetside—to try and actually be the type of video game I dreamed about playing in high school. Made by a team of former modders—who unsurprisingly given this game’s brief had worked on stuff like Homeworld and Unreal Engine—Angels Fall First…
As demonstrated by his Pewdiepie interview earlier this week, Stephen Colbert’s new stint as the host of The Late Show gives him a chance to touch on topics his old gig couldn’t, like video games we wish we could just play already, dammit. Hello Games’ Sean Murray took to the couch on Friday night to…
TBogg is Tom Boggioni, a writer based in San Diego, Ca. More specifically in Pacific Beach. Okay, in Crown Point, if you must know. Happy now? He was once known as a “somewhat popular blogger” back when blogs were a ‘thing’. He is writing the Great American Novel, minus the ‘great’ part. Before we get…
Who doesn’t love Jonathan Coulton’s contributions to the Portal games? They’re fantastic, entertaining songs, and he’s just written another one. You Wouldn’t Know was written for Lego Dimensions, and pairs Coulton up again with GLaDOS voice actor Ellen McLain. Compared to the last couple of songs, this one is quite a bit happier. It’s a…
Japanese cosplayer Masazi dressed up as Raiden for this year’s Tokyo Game Show, and it is one of the most impressive cosplay outfits I have ever seen. I mean, the suit itself is enough to get hands clapping, but the work that’s gone into that motorized helmet just boggles the mind. You can see more…
Content Warning: This educational episode contains game footage of a graphic sexual nature. This episode explores the numerous ways in which the Women as Reward trope manifests in video games. The trope occurs when women or women’s bodies are employed as rewards for player actions, a pattern which frames female bodies and sexuality as collectible…
Feminist Frequency Swelling breasts, revealing costumes, wet turtle smooches: These are the rewards you may be used to seeing in your favorite video games. A new entry in Anita Sarkeesian’s “Feminist Frequency” series released Monday explores the many ways women in video games have been treated like a gold star stuck onto a filled-out worksheet….
Alex “Redwall420” Spruck started playing Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft in March 2014. He spent the next year-plus obsessed with the game, mastering every element, taking top 10 and top 20 finishes regularly in the monthly rankings, and eventually joining up with an eSports group, Vengeance Gaming. In June, Spruck played his first open tournament for Hearthstone. From there…
This is a short video made to promote tomorrow’s release of Super Mario Maker in which Shigeru Miyamoto discusses some of the Super Mario franchise’s myths. Although he doesn’t actually do too much discussing, he mostly just shakes or nods his head, which is exactly how I like to discuss things too. He does confirm…
This article contains spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, specifically regarding the character Quiet. As anyone who’s watched my video output on the Eurogamer YouTube channel can attest, I love talking about sex in games. More often than not its execution is hilarious, sometimes it’s even erotic, and I believe that…