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…
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…
My Extra Life 2014 Game Marathon
There has been a lot of negativity and poison within gaming culture of late, but on October 25th, over 40,000 gamers set all that aside to do what we do best in a 24-hour gaming marathon in support of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. I am so very thankful to friends and family who helped me reach…
What’s Hot? July 2014
In our continued rejection of the Fake Geek Girl paradigm, What’s Hot? is our monthly feature re: what we’re feeling gleeful about in other parts of our lives. If you wanna know what we like outside of our usual WWAC beat — here’s where you can. And we want to know you too! Drop your…
The Evolution of a Gamer
There have been all sorts of influential people and moments in my life that have shaped me into the geek I am today. One Christmas, my father, then a district manager at Radio Shack, brought home a Tandy Color Computer. He unknowingly started me on a path he’s never quite come to understand, but three decades…