Well, this is horrifying. In yet another case of all the responsibility falling on the victim, Anita Sarkeesian tweeted about the reaction of the police after she was threatened with rape and violence and had her personal information posted online. All this for her series of videos Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. (Warning if you click on that...
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Nintendo of America just tweeted their release calendar for 2014/2015 and we now have an idea of when we’ll get to play the new Zelda, Star Fox and my personal favorite, Yoshi’s Woolly World. What? He poops yarn eggs! How can that not be fun? We’ll see Yoshi in the first part of 2015, and Star Fox and Zelda will hit stores for...
Today we got some new information for the point-and-click episodic Game of Thrones video game from Telltale and it looks pretty cool. IGN had an unembeddable video preview, which you can watch here. This is the image they released, which gives us some information about the game. The quote above is from Asha Greyjoy (Yara in the show):...
Joss Whedon, oh, he of the glory that is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and a little flick called The Avengers has long been an ally of women. He’s written incredibly well-rounded female characters, got a women as the lead in a show about fighting vampires and publicly talks about our equality. Note his recent tweet about female Thor...
If you’re a gamer and you haven’t watched any of the Feminist Frequency videos from Anita Sarkeesian, do yourself a favor and do it. Her series, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is fantastic. I’ve been playing my entire life, and — tell me if you’ve experienced the same thing — I’m tired of having to...
As a woman who has been playing video games since the very beginning, and who’s spent a good portion of that time saying things like, “No, really. I do play video games. No, not Barbie shopping games. I like to blow stuff up, just like you,” I’m hardly surprised to hear this. I also know that a lot of the world is. The Wall...
Nominees, presenters and special guests of the 2014 Geekie Awards were definitely With the Legion on Sunday night, offering a wonderful variety of answers to the question: “Who’s your favorite woman or female character from sci-fi, fantasy, comic books or video games? Unsurprisingly, one of the first answers we heard was from...
“‘Fear’ is a four-letter word, ladies! You wanna go pee pee in your big-boy slacks, keep it to yourself!” This is how we meet Sgt. Calhoun, the leader of the cybug-killing squadron of Hero’s Duty, the fictional first person shooter game in Disney’s arcade fantasy, Wreck-It Ralph. During a time when actual video...