Mar 12, 2013 | Forbes
There’s no getting around it: Lara Croft, the star of the Tomb Raider series, is a genuine action hero with ginormous breasts, which has made her both a symbol of female self-empowerment and an object of sexual desire. But in Tomb Raider (2013), Lara has been rebooted...
Mar 11, 2013 | Forbes
Mario* is the hero of Donkey Kong, a 1981 arcade game about an Italian plumber who must rescue his sweetheart Pauline from the ill-tempered, poorly named giant gorilla, Donkey Kong. But every time he reaches his distressed damsel, Donkey Kong whisks her away. But what...
Mar 10, 2013 | Forbes
I’ve recently become concerned about J.J. Abrams role as the director of the next Star Wars movie. After all, he could be bringing some of his Star Trek sensibility into the galaxy far, far away, and the two are–and should continue to be–extremely...
Mar 9, 2013 | Forbes
“I hate tombs,” Lara Croft says as she’s standing in the middle of, whaddya know, a tomb. Although we’ve seen many a crypt in her future, Lara in Tomb Raider (2013) is a younger, more squeamish version of herself in this thoroughly enjoyable origin story. Our tomb...
Mar 7, 2013 | Forbes
Last August, a group of LBGTQ gamers created a Kickstarter project to fund a gaming convention for people of all colors on the rainbow flag and their allies. With a $25,000 target, GaymerX 2013 raised $91,000. Now GaymerConnect is back [UPDATED] producer Anne Clements...
Mar 6, 2013 | Forbes
Ever since the announcement in January, fans have been anticipating Valve’s Steam Box, a platform for Steam-based games that will serve as a competitor to the incumbent Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo systems. But now we have more of an idea when the Steam Box will turn...
