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While I’m trying to figure out how to procure enough images for my first real feature, I’ll distract you with this feature that showed up on my Twitter feed (thanks, @NintendoTheory!) about the gender divide not in the games, but the industry itself. It’s a short read, but will give you a bit to think about while I continue assembling my first “real” post.
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“You were probably just tired. I wouldn’t worry about it.
It’s bad...”
– Shuji Ikutsuki, from Persona 3 Portable.
The notable thing about this re-re-release is that you can choose the gender of your main character, and that it (supposedly) changes the entire dynamic of the game. It’s true, it does change things, but having played the tutorial sections for each...
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"Why Gender? Why Games?" (an introduction of...
I’ve always been fascinated by how entrenched in gender roles gaming culture has always been. While many people my age will start their “when I was a child” nostalgia with their sixes and sevens, usually with that rectangular grey brick of a controller nestled between their palms, I’m going to fast-forward a bit. I was ten years old and working a summer job at my...