For those coming to PAX East it’s only two weeks away! I can barely wait. In the meantime, here’s a bit of game news roundup to keep you going. Vote for your fav games in the Awesome Awards! Did you love the artist style of Monument Valley? Were you addicted to Dragon Age or Octodad?…
Kickstarter of the Week: Geek Loves Punk
A lesbian geek and her best friends try to figure out their lives and their relationships in the sweet comedy, Geek Loves Punk. In the Geek Loves Punk Kickstarter, filmmaker Julie Kerr expands the Geek Loves Punk story from her original short film to a full length feature. The story focuses on Elizabeth, a lesbian…
Con Season Survival Guide
Con season is already underway for many of us, and while surviving a con may not be as stressful as surviving a zombie apocalypse, they’re pretty damn close. So, I polled our amazing staff and contributors, who are seasoned con pros, mind you, to share their tips for surviving con season.
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Hello, happy gamers! How’s the week treating you? I recently realized I had forgotten to play The Room 2, so I’ve been catching up before The Room 3 comes out this spring. Also, confession time, I started Life is Strange, but haven’t committed much time to it. Let me know what you’re playing, and what…
Kickstarter of the Week: Jill Trent, Science Sleuth #1
In the mid-1940s, Jill Trent, Science Sleuth was a comic book heroine who caught criminals using her smarts and science. 65 years later, she’s in the public domain and modernized for today’s readers. Since 2012 D.M. Higgins has been editing the Super Dames blog highlighting women in comics throughout history with occasional commentary on gender issues in comics….
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Welcome back, gaming friends! This week’s wrap up includes ridiculous rules on LGBTQ players in esports, prime time TV tackling gamergate themes, sexy Super Bowl mobile game commercials and cute Daleks. Read on! Restrictions placed on LGBTQ players in League of Legends tournament When this popped up in my Twitter feed yesterday, I, like many…
Cool Comics of February
Coffin Hill Vol. 2: Dark Endeavors Caitlin Kittredge (W), Inaki Miranda (A) Vertigo February 10, 2015 I have been eagerly, not-so-patiently waiting for the second trade to come out in this series. I started reading it as trade so I usually like to continue down that route even though the temptation to just stock up on…
Boston Comic Con Missteps in Marketing to Women
This weekend I was thrilled to see an email sitting in my inbox, Boston Comic Con 2015–Tickets Now On Sale! I had so much fun at last year’s show, my mind was already imagining the con floor and jumping ahead to potential cosplay options. I clicked to read more and my excitement quickly evaporated. Ogling…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Welcome to this week’s edition of Get Your Game On Wednesday! This week brings us full coverage lady armor for all your fighting needs, fabulous women in Geek Girl Media, one teen girl’s journey to becoming a game dev, and much more!
Survey Alert: Young Reader Comics
Are you an editor or publisher of comics and graphic novels aimed at Young Readers ages 4-18? With the popularity of titles like Raina Telgemeier’s Smile, Marvel’s Ms. Marvel, IDW’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Jeff Smith’s Bone, young reader comics are gaining in variety and popularity. Engaging the upcoming generation of comic…
Kickstarter of the Week: Queers Destroy Science Fiction
Hot on the heels on the success of Women Destroy Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine’s newest Kickstarter promises to get as many queer creators involved as possible. According to the Queers Destroy Science Fiction Kickstarter campaign, “even in science fiction, supposedly the genre of limitless possibility, where everyone is invited to the adventure, heterosexual, heteroromantic, and…
X-Feels: X-Men Casting Feels, to Be Specific
That guy who makes these things, the X-Men movies, I mean, tweeted yesterday: http://twitter.com/BryanSinger/status/558437540831567872 Tye Sheriden, who’s been in some things, Mud and Tree of Life (get thee behind me, Terrence Malick) among them, is our new Cyclops.
