Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I’ll be straight with you: I don’t read a lot of videogame reviews. But every now and then, especially if GOG.com has a sale, I will find myself reading its user reviews—a good way to get a handle on, if not the game itself, at least some memories of it. I will end up reading…
Condescension drips off the opening screen of Millennial Swipe Sim 2015, a game that purports to simulate the “thrilling world of app-based dating.” Much like Tinder, it presents you with photos of potential suitors—albeit pixelated ones—and asks you to swipe right or left to indicate if you’re interested. “But watch out,” it warns. “Stop swiping…
The boxed copy of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain reportedly contains nothing but a Steam installer. That’s right, even if you fork out real-world money for a physical copy of the game, you’ll still have to download the whole thing from the internet. The image was posted to social media by @graphμre. Making…
Remember that story of how Atari buried a bunch of their games in a landfill, and how they were rediscovered last year? Now, some of the recovered cartridges have sold for over $100,000. As the video game market crashed in the mid-1980s, Atari disposed of much of their surplus games, including their infamous adaptation of…
By Jaya Saxena on May 31st, 2015 Cards Against Humanity, before it became go-to entertainment for a generation raised on the Internet and saddled with a backward idea of political correctness, began as a crowdsourced, printable game created by a group of old high school friends. A 2011 Kickstarter campaign produced the actual cards. In…
The latest addition to Street Fighter V‘s upcoming roster has been announced today, and it’s Rainbow Mika! Street Fighter fans will remember this grapple-focused wrestler from her 1998 appearance in Street Fighter Alpha 3. Also, um, one can’t help but notice that she is still wearing the exact same outfit that she wore in 1998, except her…
One year ago, the Internet became a much stranger, much darker place when the Gamergate controversy kicked off, via a blog post attacking independent game developer Zoe Quinn. The 9,425-word blog post (by Quinn’s ex-boyfriend) alleged that Quinn had a relationship with gaming journalist Nathan Grayson that enabled her to garner favorable reviews, but this…
Today Bungie held a steam showcasing a lot of the major changes coming to Destiny with Year 2. Year 2, if you were unaware refers to September 15th, 2015, the day that The Taken King expansion will be released. The expansion is going to be the largest addition that the game has ever seen therefore…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata Casual games mirror women’s work, teaching their players that affective labor counts At the start of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, you, the player, learn how to fold a shirt. You tap your smartphone’s touchscreen a few times to have the customizable cartoon avatar straighten a clothing display. Kim Kardashian soon appears,…
“Video games are a boy thing,” my sister explains to me. “I feel like it’s a known fact. GameStop is a boy store. The commercials are for boys. It’s just something everyone knows.” My sister is 17. She runs a One Direction fan Twitter with 10,000 followers. She plans to major in fashion marketing. She’s…