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Extremely minor Mass Effect 3 spoilers follow. Bioware. You people, let us chat. Long time listener, first time caller. Love your work, have even devoted some of my professional research time to one of...
View ArticleGetting my mass effected
Okay. Blog posts are supposed to have pretty pictures because the internet hates text but I need to get my thoughts about the ME3 ending on ‘paper’ now while they’re fresh. So here they go. SORRY...
View ArticleLosing my religion
Okay so on reflection I had more thoughts to share on the ME3 ending. There are spoilers behind the cut. Also, it’s worth reading through a friend and colleague’s comments on my previous post which are...
View ArticleBio-aware
A very small post for you — a number of people at PCA who came to our gender and sexuality in Bioware games panel asked if I would send them the slides from my talk on same-sex romance options. (Those...
View ArticlePlus ça Games for Change…
Right. So out of deference to a colleague, I’ve backburnered this because I didn’t want to interfere with his ability to attend and speak at this year’s Games for Change Festival. That said, if you’re...
View ArticleLolicon Chainsaw
So, I’m currently working on a bunch of different writing projects, attempting to get some articles out the door. While this one is a bit far off, I wanted to get some of my thoughts about it out...
View ArticleMass Effect 3: Extended Director’s Unrated Super Special Rainbow Alpha Neo...
Right. You knew it was coming, so let’s just get it over with. Obviously, spoilers for good old Mass Effect 3 and the Extended Cut endings, after the jump. So, when I first saw the “traditional...
View ArticleRampant self-promotion
So, a friend asked for me to consolidate, somewhere, links to the various podcasts I have been a guest of this past year. For some reason I cannot fathom the folks at Gaymism – the Wonder Twins-style...
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An Open Letter to Riot Games
Hi, guys. This is Taric. Check out that hair. (Yes, I used his Chinese artwork. Shut up.) Taric is a champion in League of Legends. In terms of types, he is both a support and a tank, having strong...
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A Slight Followup on “An Open Letter to Riot”
So, a few things happened, and I wanted to bring them up. First, game journo/critic/maven Patricia Hernandez gave my post a write-up on Kotaku which is humbling/gratifying. While I’m not normally a...
View ArticleSin and Punishment
Okay, I try to keep this blog mostly about games and criticism and scholarship and sometimes games criticism scholarship but I don’t really have a personal blog anymore with the demise of Livejournal...
View ArticleInfinite Regress
I know I probably shouldn’t but I’m going to write a thing on Bioshock Infinite since I played it all the way through, and a theme in the game has been gnawing at me. It doesn’t hurt that the theme now...
View ArticleWhy I’m A Mass-market Sellout Whore
Right, so Andrew Vanden Bosch wrote a very interesting short blog post on “The Case for Never Talking About AAA Games.” I read it and I think in many ways he is spot on, but there’s a couple of places...
View ArticleMusica Mundana — On battle themes
(Edit: I was gonna talk about victory fanfares but that got cut. Maybe next time!) So, I really like game music. My tastes tend to run more toward Japanese game music, if only because most U.S. game...
View ArticleMusica Mundana — Victory Themes For Real This Time
So as a very brief, quick followup to last night’s post on battle music, I’m going to put up a little bit about the way victory fanfares are constructed (in my view) as well. It’s not a long post but...
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The X Factor
Okay so Project X Zone (the ‘x’ is read ‘cross,’ as is common in Japanese pop culture loanword-ing) is coming out soon. In fact you can download a demo of it for the 3DS off the Nintendo e-Shop (handy...
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Musica Mundana — Secular Christian Rock
So back when I was first making these posts I joked on Twitter about the silly directions this could go. One of those directions was an explanation of how the soundtrack to Subarashiki Kono Sekai (aka...
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Ocelote and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Behavior
Right, so. Today when I popped open the League of Legends client, I saw a link to a video called “Controlling the Beast.” It was in a space where, when not promoting in-game stuff like champion...
View ArticleMusica Mundana — Dramabomb
So, I’ma level with you: I love awesome moments in games, and I love game music, but I especially love game music for awesome moments in games. Let’s start with an obvious one: the final demon...
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You Knew This Was Coming If You Were Paying Any Attention
Right, I’ve about had it. Let me set some context for this blog post: I’m listening to ”Blinded by Light” — aka Final Fantasy XIII‘s default battle music and riff on Lightning’s character theme — on...
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