Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Gaming Round-Up: July 1, 2014

Atari Cartel by Arturo Liceaga


The Appendix  traces how the word "mana" went from a word with a specific meaning in many Polynesian languages to be adopted as the default term for magical energy in fantasy games and novels.

Cara Ellison of Paste pens a letter to dear ol’ mum on the palatability of mainstream, and why Google’s Star Trek doodle may prove an excellent example of how to make games ready and accessible.

Critical Damages shares some thoughts on the underrated Final Fantasy XII.

Forein Policy jokes that The Navy's latest destroyer is basically a floating Xbox.



On Gamasutra, TownCraft developer Leigh Harris suggests a small and easy way developers can fight against the male-as-default problem of game avatars.

Geeks of Doom takes a stab at picking the Top 5 Most Rage-Inducing Games.

At Go Make Me A Sandwich, wundergeek has doodled an entertaining series of illustrations for why developing playable women in games is so difficult. “Female pixels can only be harvested from special flowers that grow on the moon.”

In a new twist on the whole video game violence debate, there's now research that suggests that The Virtual Guilt of Doing Wrong in Games Makes Players Better Real-Life Humans.

At Midnight Resistance, Owen Grieve animatedly challenges the idea that public criticism of game design is tantamount to censorship of game developers.

Motherboard has an interview with an actual female Warcraft player in a piece on The Quest to Understand Feminism Through World of Warcraft

The New Yorker recounts the most complete telling to date of the origin of same-sex relationships in The Sims yet to surface.

Paste have offered up a productive postmortem of IndiE3, the E3 “unconference.”

Samantha Allen laments the emotional and psychological toll among provocative writers who are expected to keep agitating for change while Daniel Joseph contends that for this kind of writing to survive, it may need to divorce itself from capitalism

Screen Robot names 10 Underappreciated Women In Gaming. This could have been a much longer list, but personally, I'm sick of seeing Joanna Dark in these lists. She was just about as generic as a character can get while still having a gender.


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