Happy October! What games are you playing lately? I played a bit of Hitman: Sniper, an Android and iOS game where you play as a sniper tasked with increasingly difficult challenges (e.g., kill a guard by making another guard fall onto them). It only has two maps, but for one dollar, it’s a good time…
Get Your Game on Wednesday: Say Hello to Mario’s Nipples
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: 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.
Get Your Game On: It’s Crossover Week!
Gamers love world building! It’s almost like there’s something in our DNA. This week’s news is chock full of how our favorite universes are coming at us from all directions. Squee!
Get Your Game On Wednesday: Giving Mass Effect Andromeda The Side-Eye
It’s Wednesday, the best day of the week if you’re a gaming news fan! Despite my inability to find any time to beat Night in the Woods (it’s been a busy couple of weeks), I’m still consuming all the news and regurgitating it in a helpful digest form just for you, like a supportive mama…
Nintendo Switch Report
Nintendo Switch information was finally released on January 1, 2017. While there was a ton of information dropped, we can expect even more news to be released over the coming days as Nintendo does streams, developers share news, and so on.
Get Your Game on Wednesday: Girls Make Games but Nobody Gets Full-Time Employment
Welcome to Wednesday, gaming warriors. It’s officially the holiday season, and that means we’re either swimming in new titles to play or anxiously awaiting the moment when we get to open the title we know we’re getting, but have to wait for. If you’ve been staring idly at your wrapped presents and missed this week’s…
Review: Nintendo’s Miitomo App
After a long time of ignoring the culture surrounding smartphones, Nintendo has released its first social media app, complete with a dress-up game and pachinko-style minigames. I’m a sucker for virtual clothes and being Skinner boxed by “I nearly had it!” games, so I was eager to try out Miitomo.
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…
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Happy Wednesday, gaming lovelies! I was out Christmas caroling this weekend and was wondering “Are there any good caroling video games?” I couldn’t think of one, which made me a little sad, so if you know of one, let me know in the comments. Bayonetta joins Super Smash Bros The self-composed, stylish witch is coming…
Music Culture Composes The World Ends with You
Calling…you hear the calling… 2007’s The World Ends with You gave Nintendo DS owners a lot to talk about. It follows Neku Sakuraba, an anti-social teen who dislikes trying to understand other people, as he wakes up in the Shibuya scramble crossing with no memory of how he got there. Barriers keep him trapped in…
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to [My] Past
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Shotaro Ishinomori (mangaka); Dan Owsen (translation); Yukiko Whitley (cover & interior design) VIZ Media, May 2015 Disclaimer: this review is based upon a review copy provided by the publisher and contains light spoilers. So there’s this boy with blonde hair, pointy ears, and a green outfit….
