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 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...
