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…new letter series on the sexual and personal space politics of Hugatron, which showcased recently at UK-based counter-E3 conference EToo.

Speaking of UK conferences, John Brindle recently attended London-based game design conference Bit of Alright, and wants to show us inside.

Via our German Correspondent Johannes Köller, we come upon Marcus Dittmar at 99Leben with a cynical look back on E3. Over on Kotaku, Tina Amini covers five tales of harassment and discomfort from this year’s show floor, and on Gamasutra, GDC community director Patrick Miller gives us five more. (Full disclosure: I am one of the women…

…little ever gets done.

Eric Swain continues horror month at PopMatters by looking at a classic adventure game now again once widely available and how I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is more faithful to the concept of horror than most other games.

And Liz Ryerson collects her three critical walkthrough videos of the first chapter of the original Doom and of the subtle nuances of the level’s design and hidden storytelling.

Social Issues

We have a treat this week. Stanford was kind enough to to show the study that demonstrates how sexualized game…

…our foreign correspondent Joe Köller, who says the translation above is close enough to ‘Critical Distance’.

The new WASD is out, a local bookzine and games writing powerhouse featuring practically every games writer in the German-speaking world. No digital version yet, but there’s a pretty substantial sample available.

On Glam Geek Girl, Ally Auner has a brief writeup on a recent talk on gender identity and sexual diversity by cultural studies person René Schallegger (audio online). Speaking of sex, Dennis Kogel of Superlevel interviewed Tale of Tales after they disagreed with his assessment of Luxuria Superbia. Hey, wait…

…sex and videogames to be less technical and more playful.

And finally, for those sick of triple vowels and all related festivities, Joylancer developer TJ Thomas presents: IndiE3.

Let’s Put a Cherry on This

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…how romance and sex are always intertwined in Bioware games. Miguel Penabella talks about how difficult it is to get proper preservation of video games.

Finally, Samantha Allen talks about the difficulty of teaching someone the intricacies of Mario Kart 8.

(Content Note: Discussion of Harassment)

On a personal note, Samantha has decided to exit the games writing space due to an interminable campaign of harassment. She isn’t the first woman to exit games writing for this reason, and won’t be the last: Laura Michet wrote this piece about her experience getting harassed out of writing. Samantha…