King of All Monsters By Karin Malady • March 3rd, 2022 When you know who the real monster is, the fight feels triumphant.
Gaymer Pride By Jeremy Signor • June 19th, 2019 Identities are great and necessary tools for understanding yourself and establishing communities. But it’s not worth losing yourself to their darker tendencies.
We Need To Change the Relationship Between Developers and the Press By Malindy Hetfeld • November 12th, 2018 Too often games media reward this attitude due to the large divide in opinion. We can’t and shouldn’t have the same opinions of the product.
Go Read DED LED By Amanda Hudgins • September 12th, 2018 This isn’t a eulogy, mostly because I doubt I would be the person to write such a thing and also because how can something actually be lost when the heart of it, the writers who crafted remarkable work and who I respect so terribly much, still exists.
The Gay Normalcy Fantasy By Jeremy Signor • September 12th, 2018 Sometimes we just want to escape into a power fantasy. For many gay people, there’s power in the fantasy of normalcy.
How I Almost Gave Up On Games By Amanda Hudgins • May 29th, 2018 I’m not one of those named faces of GamerGate, the women for whom, for better or worse, GamerGate has become a part of their identity and brand. If you think back to those most visibly affected, the ones who had it worse, I’m nobody.
Dispatches from GDC 2018: Day Five By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2018 Amanda goes to GDC with a press pass. This is Day 5 of her experience.
The Heart of Fighting Games By Khee Hoon Chan • January 16th, 2018 It’s these technicalities and the breakneck speed of play that heighten the range of emotions players experience during a fight, like frustration, cool-headedness, arrogance, despair and even elation.
The Game Take is the Worst Take By David Shimomura • October 2nd, 2017 It’s hard to watch sites pat themselves on the back super hard for only the tip of the iceberg.