#INeedDiverseGames – and #WeNeedDiverseBooks – because anything less is shitty writing

There’s been some great stuff said in the #INeedDiverseGames hashtag in the last couple of days, though if you check… Read more #INeedDiverseGames – and #WeNeedDiverseBooks – because anything less is shitty writing

Thoughts on ludonarrative difficulties and The Walking Dead: Season Two

Note: This is all my interpretation of a game and a story that allows for a multiplicity of interpretations; that’s… Read more Thoughts on ludonarrative difficulties and The Walking Dead: Season Two

I just sent this to feedback@telltalegames.com, regarding episode 4 of The Walking Dead: Season Two. Massive spoilers for that episode… Read more On The Walking Dead S2, Sarah, and why it all matters

So my afternoon got completely derailed. I was sitting down to write a thing and I put on the music… Read more As promised, my top ten favorite bits of game soundtracks

Because there’s nothing like kicking off the morning of three weeks of teaching an intensive intro-to-sociology course like writing about… Read more Some thoughts on Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and participatory storytelling

Note: Here follow major spoilers. I’m not sure when, in the course of playing The Last of Us: Left Behind,… Read more No more princesses, no more castles

I’ve made sporadic, clumsy attempts to write about video games on this blog before, and here’s another. I do think… Read more Some fragmentary thoughts on The Last of Us

Be aware: There is a lot. Without further ado: This week in awesome: An artist is making a map of… Read more Sunday Linkdump: All the cars upturned talk like the trains