Happy Wednesday! I return to you, exhausted from PAX and Rose City Comic Con, having played too many games to list. Currently I’m into Cook, Serve, Delicious!! 2, which is great if you like to chase real-life stress with fictional stress, which I do. On to the news!
Get Your Game on Wednesday: Representation in Prey and Trolls in Counter-Strike
Howdy, gaming lovelies! I’ve been on the road a bit so it feels good to be back. With Memorial Day Weekend coming up, I’m hoping to catch a few tabletop games while drinking sangria on the patio. What about you? Tell me all the juicy plans in the comments below. Now, on to the news!
Get Your Game On Wednesday: Gaming Scholarships and Gamers Give Back
Welcome to another Wednesday full of gaming news! I’m emerging from Hyrule, battle-scarred and cursing at Guardians, with all the important stuff I (and maybe you) missed while cooking every random object I could find, by which I mean I got Breath of the Wild and can’t stop playing it.
Roll20 Now Offers Licensed Dungeons & Dragons Content for All Your Digital Gaming Needs
Roll20, a longtime favorite for long-distance tabletop roleplayers, just gained a level in awesomeness. In a new licensing deal with Wizards of the Coast, Roll20 will now offer licensed Dungeons & Dragons content for their platform, allowing you to load premade character sheets, maps, tokens, and other tabletop essentials right into the free program.
Get Your Game on Wednesday: Goodbye to Disney Infinity
Hello, gaming lovelies! I’m super excited for a new tabletop gaming event here in New Hampshire this weekend. If there’s a game you’ve been dying to play or want to see more details on game play, send me a shout out. Goodbye to Disney Infinity The time has come for Disney to get out of…
Game Chats: Is “Lesbian” Profane?
A new poll in the forums of Smite asks why the game has deemed the word “lesbian” worthy of being censored.
Pokémon XY Fates Collide TCG Expansion
The Pokémon XY Fates Collide Expansion is set to hit shelves May 2nd in the United States. The set is already out in Japan with the title Awakening of the Psychic King (めざめる超王) and some cards are available via pre-release events through participating Pokémon Play hosts. The set will feature 120 new cards and will fall…
Get Your Game On Wednesday: Sports Ball Refresh and Giant Monopoly
Howdy, gaming lovelies! This week, I spent time with a different type of gaming – watching the college basketball finals games. Tons of fun was had by all, but I think I’m all set with sports ball for a bit. New to play Dark Souls 3 – PS4, XBox 1 and PC The game’s original March…
Alison Rapp and Speech We Hate: Disentangling an Ugly Mess
When Alison Rapp was hired to work at Nintendo of America, her 2011 undergraduate honors thesis, Speech We Hate: An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen Its Anti-Child Pornography Laws, had been publicly available in the Honors Review for more than a year. Then, as now, it was available freely for public, and certainly…
Pokémon GO Will Make Geocachers of Us All
The first time I heard about geocaching was when my middle school crush’s father went on what I thought was a treasure hunt. He explained to me, while I sweated over sitting so close to my beloved in the back of a Toyota, that it was so much more than treasure hunting. It was building…
Undertale, GameFAQs, and Sore Losers
Undertale’s victory in the GameFAQs “Best Game Ever” poll is one of those minor internet events that, though only mildly amusing itself, reflects interestingly on the culture around it. Probably most people in the games community are already aware of what happened, but allow me to provide a quick recap. Beginning on the fifth of…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Happy New Year, gaming lovelies! Hopefully you had a little R&R during your holidays to game away. Now that you’re fresh and aglow, here are some resolutions (inspired by last week’s news) to jumpstart your shiny new year.