Composition Games: An Interview with Dr. Alexis Lothian By Megan Condis • August 8th, 2016 In a course on Gender, Race, and Digital Media, Dr. Alexis Lothian’s students express themselves by making games.
If You Build It They Will Come: Mark Oshiro on Trolls, Fandom, and Community Management By Megan Condis • July 18th, 2016 Megan Condis got to chat with the titular Mark of Mark Does Stuff on how to avoid fandoms becoming cesspools of trolls and bigotry.
“I Hope You Get Shot”: A Tale of Swatting By Megan Condis • July 7th, 2016 “In the moments after I received my threat, I was unsure how to proceed. Part of me was absolutely certain that my troll was just that and nothing more” Megan shares her experience with Swatting.
Game Developer Barbie and E3 Druggings By Megan Condis • June 20th, 2016 Mattel is making the game and tech industry more attractive to girls, but women already there are still in danger.
Hack the Planet: Mainlining Demo By Megan Condis • June 7th, 2016 Wouldn’t it be great if Hollywood was right, and hacking was actually just rollerblading and drinking soda all day?
Nostalgia Jam By Megan Condis • May 23rd, 2016 We got a real jam goin’ down, welcome to the Nostalgia Jam. BOOMSHAKALAKA!
Historian of the Future: An Interview with Andrew Groen By Megan Condis • May 9th, 2016 Megan had the opportunity to sit down with Andrew Groen, author of Empires of EVE
What League of Legends Can Learn From StarCraft By Megan Condis • April 25th, 2016 Word on the street is that League of Legends has peaked.
Why All the Hate?: A History of Internet Trolls By Megan Condis • April 18th, 2016 Another day, another flood of trolls complaining online about videogames and hurling abuse at developers and fellow gamers who disagree with them.
The Witness is a Videogame Sans Politics, for Good or Ill By Megan Condis • April 1st, 2016 Spoiler Warning for Myst, which seriously you guys came out in 1993.
Californium is a Fiction Reference Wrapped in a Drug-Addled Riddle By Megan Condis • March 14th, 2016 Philip K. Dick influence is heavy in Californium, but might-be-winks and could-be-nudges may be just as frustrating as exciting for fans.
Building Languages in Games: An Interview with Dr. Jessica Sams By Megan Condis • March 3rd, 2016 From Simlish to Tho Fan to the terrible sounds that Tidus made, Megan and Dr. Sams discuss all parts of fake languages and why they make such a difference.
Laser Kittens: X-Men Meets Internet Cat Videos Meets Table Top By Megan Condis • February 29th, 2016 It’s leap day! Let’s make use of this elusive day by peering into the minds of our kitten overlords.
Is That Dragon, Cancer Really a Videogame? By Megan Condis • February 9th, 2016 The old question, “Is it really a video game?” rears it’s beastly head yet again with That Dragon, Cancer
Please, For the Love of God, Don’t Watch The Ridiculous Six By Megan Condis • February 1st, 2016 Ridiculous 6 is 6 kinds of ridiculously bad.
Downfall Asks: How Do You Want to Spend the End of Days? By Megan Condis • January 18th, 2016 A floating island, falsified data, collaboration and a society about to slide into oblivion.
Binge Watching Making a Murderer, Duty over Escapism By Megan Condis • January 11th, 2016 Maybe the first instance of binge watching feeling like an obligation to society over lazy indulgence.
The Hateful Eight: A Microcosm of America By Megan Condis • January 5th, 2016 Imagery, irony and hatred that’s is still as prevalent today as it was just after the Civil War.
How Undertale Broke the Internet By Megan Condis • December 22nd, 2015 When Undertale won GameFAQs’ annual Best Game Ever bracket, the community went insane. But why?
Jessica Jones Reveals the Petty Monstrosities of a Realistic Super Human By Megan Condis • December 14th, 2015 Why is Jessica Jones so fantastic? Because its characters are anything but.
Statistics are Making Us Into Assholes: A Modest Proposal to Reform League of Legends By Megan Condis • December 7th, 2015 Megan has a solution for the toxic cesspool of shitty behavior, commonly called League of Legends, on how to make it less cesspool-y.
What is Bob Ross Doing on Twitch? By Megan Condis • November 23rd, 2015 I looked away for 30 seconds and missed an entire foreground.
Cibele: Geek Love By Megan Condis • November 16th, 2015 Time to explore the painfully awkward, geekery driven, sexually charged memories of high school.
Head to Head: Jem and the Holograms By Megan Condis • November 9th, 2015 The long-awaited live-action Jem and the Holograms movie was, sadly, a flop. But how does it compare to the source material?
Cult Horror Review: Death Bed: The Bed That Eats By Megan Condis • November 2nd, 2015 The Venus Fly Trap tactics of this diabolical bed are second to none.
ROM Review: Future Obligations By Megan Condis • October 26th, 2015 “In many ways, the game invites players to contemplate our obligations to other beings, be they robots, future punks, cat ladies or even houseplants.”