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July 26th

…handjob for the small group of chubby (sic) white men whose skillset is demanded by the aliens. Everything revolves around them, everything confirms their worldview, and everything rewards them.

A short-but-sweet piece, in Gamasutra’s Member Blogs Nicholas Lovell points out how a particular mechanic in Fallout Shelter reinforces cultural attitudes about women in combat. Likewise, Kotaku UK’s Nathan Ditum notes certain continuities between EA developer remarks on the inclusion of women players in FIFA 16 and systemic sexist attitudes:

EA has clearly taken pains not just to include women’s football, but to do it well. There…

August 30th

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Sticking with Gamasutra for a moment, Alex Wawro has a front-page piece on the psychological toll that studying and rendering hyperreal violence (and other grotesqueries) can have on designers and animators working in the games industry (Content Warning: graphic violence).

Moving over to Not Your Mama’s Gamer, Samantha Blackmon questions why Fallout Shelter not only erases queerness, it also enforces some highly specific attitudes regarding pregnancy:

There was so much about the mechanics of this game that not only privileged heteronormativity but also reproduction. Only heterosexual sex is allowed, heterosexual sex always leads to both 100%

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December 20th

…means, but Maddy Myers provides us with some entertaining speculation.

Meanwhile, Femhype contributor MostlyBiscuit interviewed Kayla Squires, who recently became the first woman to qualify for the Call of Duty World League.

On Unwinnable, our own Riley MacLeod talks about his response to the unreliable narration of Secrets Agent and Dr. Langeskov, and on PopMatters, Jorge Albor talks about his love-hate relationship with Fallout 4.

Should old acquaintance be forgot?

On Gamasutra, Brandon Sheffield brings us the most surprising 90s games, a list chock-full of doozies. While we’re on memory lane, John Romero recently provided us…

January 17th

…A big chunk of videogames blogging this week highlighted mechanics usage in games:

Did you know that Bossa Studios is working on a VR version of Surgeon Simulator? Thanks to Jake Tucker at Pocket Gamer, now you do.

In Gamasutra’s blog sections, Chris Pruett tells us about the different elements of tension he’s found in the horror genre and how he applied them to his own game.

YouTube channel Game Maker’s Toolkit dissects the quest “Beyond the Beef” in Fallout: New Vegas and lauds it as a great example of sidequest writing (video, captions available).

Over…

Episode 35 – Camp’s Signal

…as the “logjam” created by trying to reconcile different facets of his personal approach to criticism.

http://www.critical-distance.com/podcast/Critical-Distance-Confab-episode-35.mp3

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Half-Life

Commentary – Half-Life

Errant Signal – Mirror’s Edge

Errant Signal – The Stanley Parable

Errant Signal – Gamification

Errant Signal – “Keep Your Politics Out of my Video Games”

Errant Signal – Hotline Miami (Spoilers)

Errant Signal – (Spoilers) Fallout 4 and Role Playing

Errant Signal – The Beginner’s Guide (Spoilers)

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Opening Theme: ‘Close’ by The Alpha Conspiracy

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April 24th

…the dominance of white cultural signifiers.

Unpacking Rust, Race, and Player Reactions to Change | Antenna (Content warning: racism) Adrienne Shaw unpacks the fallout from Rust’s assignment of skin color at random to player avatars.

Are LGBT Characters “Forced” Into Games? | YouTube (Video, captions auto-generated) Rantasmo provides a useful framework for discussing inclusivity with regard to minor characters

Why All the Hate?: A History of Internet Trolls | Unwinnable (Content warning: harassment) Megan Condis gives us a bitesized run-down of how trolling began and why it has intensified.

“The game of trolling was…

New website! Part 1: search

…a single post.

Try it now with this page of results on the word “killing“.

Easily surface Critical Compilations

If you search for a game that has been featured in its own Critical Compilation, our search results are tweaked so that it will usually be the first result on the page. Additionally, all Critical Compilations have neat little green boxes to make them stand out on the search results page! Hopefully this should make it much easier for people to find exactly what they need.

Try it now with a search for Bioshock, Fallout, or Metroid.

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February 26

…of games they play to feel happy, along with some personal reflection about how some games can wind up connecting with a player.

Playing for real: Not with a bang but with a winter | Haywire Haywire Magazine features a post by Jesse Porch on Fallout and The Long Dark through the lens of traditionally defined “apocalyptic” fiction that refers more to total change rather than total destruction:

Traditionally, apocalyptic literature was a form of religious writing that dealt with the supernatural destruction of the current order, but the destruction itself was not meant to be…

January-February Roundup: Healing

…the appeal in farming sims is often their negotiation with community, balancing the home’s needs with social interaction. For Karabinus, Stardew Valley is an exploration of community not just in the cast members she romances and shares the town with, but in the game’s aesthetic mods that community members create to spite the darker-skinned characters.

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Walking Before Marching

On Nerd Cavern, Joey DiZoglio describes his real-life experience touring DC with a digital tour in Fallout 3‘s vision of the same place. DiZoglio reflects on how he and the world have changed…

May 24th

…for the rest of us: an interview at Edge Online with Celebrity Voice Actor go-out-and-getterer Lev Chapelsky. You might have seen it do the rounds at the big news sites as they particularly focussed on how Chapelsky says he tried pitching the role of President Adams in Fallout 3 to Bill Clinton (One in a million, but worth a shot!) and the rest of it is worthwhile reading too.

And that’s your lot for the week – As always if your read a post that was particularly excellent and would like to see it included in TWIVGB, feel free…