Jul 9, 2012 | Forbes
Two months ago, feminist blogger, Anita Sarkeesian created a Kickstarter project to fund a five-video series to examine sexism and female stereotypes in videogames. In addition to raising almost $160,000, Sarkeesian also received what she described on her blog as “a...
Jul 7, 2012 | Forbes
Image posted by Paul McCartney, via Twitter As I wrote back in January, Paul McCartney—actually, that’s Sir Paul to you—told German magazine Zeit that he was writing music for a video game…and then he said nothing else. But today he told the world, via Twitter, who...
Jul 4, 2012 | Forbes
Image from www.feliciaday.com On June 30, games journalist Ryan Perez got drunk and pulled up his one-month old Twitter account. He tweeted, “Does Felicia Day matter at all? I mean does she contribute anything useful to the industry, besides retaining a geek persona?”...
Jun 30, 2012 | Forbes
Quantum Conundrum (QC), by Airtight Games, is the latest contender to the crown of physics-based puzzlers in which you progress through a sequence of challenge areas to reach the door on the other side. In this, it’s similar in both structure and spirit to a previous...
Jun 28, 2012 | Forbes
The upcoming MMO Guild Wars 2 made a very good impression with me when I played it in its beta form back in May: it was both easy to play and easy to become engaged. Also, killing centaurs. But potential players did not know when they could become actual players....