SPOILER WARNING: These diaries will contain spoilers for Dragon Age Inquisition (DAI), as well as its predecessors, Dragon Age: Origins (DAO) and Dragon Age II (DA2), and may also contain spoilers from the tie-in materials. If you’re new to this whole Dragon Age business and want to know what the hell I’m going on about,…
Inquisition Diaries #1: An Inquisitor is Me
SPOILER WARNING: These diaries will contain spoilers for Dragon Age Inquisition (DAI), as well as its predecessors, Dragon Age: Origins (DAO) and Dragon Age II (DA2), and may also contain spoilers from the tie-in materials. If you’re new to this whole Dragon Age business and want to know what the hell I’m going on about, please…
Raised and Raising Geek: Romona and Wendy Talk Geek Parenting
WWAC Staff Writers Romona Williams and Wendy Browne are not only geeks, but geek moms. Including geek culture in their kids’ lives is crucial to their parenting. In this article, they answer some questions about geek parenting and provide great ideas for resources and talking with your kids about the more difficult issues that come up…
No One Expects Dragons in the Inquisition—A Dragon Age Primer [GIFs]
No one expects dragons in the inquisition. Unless you live on the fictional continent of Thedas, in which case you’d know that the Chantry named this, the ninth age, after the portentous return of the dragons . Or you’re a fan of BioWare‘s video game series and have been waiting impatiently for today’s official release of Dragon…
What We’re Playing: November
Rachel Stevens is playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within on PC XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within 2K Games/Firaxis Games Released: Enemy Unknown: October 9th 2012/Enemy Within: November 12th 2013 Developers: Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (OS X, Linux) Publishers: 2K Games, Feral Interactive (OS X, Linux) Platforms: Microsoft Windows (what Rachel is playing it on), OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux,…
Of Pirates and Self-Rescuing Princesses
“I wanted to write a book about a girl that was strong, smart and independent — like I want my daughter to be when she grows up,” said Jeremy Whitley, and so Princeless was born. When we first met Princess Adrienne, she was trapped in a dragon-guarded tower, until she decided to take her fate…
WWACGamers
I took to Twitter to find out what our readers are playing. I did my best not to let my personal Bioware obsession take too much precedence, though we did have a few other people join in who love Mass Effect and/or are looking forward to the upcoming release of Dragon Age: Inquisition. Fortunately, we had…
Remembering The Night Witches
To each other they were sisters, with bonds forged in blood and terror. To the Red Army Air Force they were an infuriating feminist sideshow. To the Germans they were simply Nachthexen—Night Witches. [x]
Game Review: Remember Me is Not to be Forgotten
Meet Nilin. She is the star of DONTNOD’s 2013 video game Remember Me, but you may never have gotten to meet her if DONTNOD had conformed to the close-minded vision of some major gaming companies. The fact that Nilin was a woman meant that when the game was shown to potential publishers, many were discouraged…
Calling All WWACgamers
The gaming industry has expanded to include a wide variety of games well beyond the PC and console titles that have dominated the industry for so long. Mobile applications and social media games are now housed under the same umbrella as games like Call of Duty and Dragon Age, but some of the more elitist…
November Staff Picks: Games
Far Cry 4 Ubisoft Montreal Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Far Cry 2 was the reason I learned to build desktop computers. I wanted to play it on a machine that could handle how incredibly beautiful these games are at their maximum settings. The Far Cry franchise is known for its first-person shooter…
Loot Crate: The Vicarious Unboxing
My newest obsession is Funko’s Pop! collection of adorably geeky vinyl toys that now adorn my bookshelf. In order to curb my buy-all-the-things desires, I decided to limit myself to one representative from each of my favourite fandoms. My collection has already blossomed to include Panthro from Thundercats, Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect, Brienne of…