Recently on this blog I posted a piece about the game Duke Nukem Forever, and it’s fair to say a lot of people had trouble understanding it. Thanks to the kindness and effort of my fellow contributors it’s now been fixed, for which I am extremely grateful. The problem is, it shouldn’t have happened, if…
Exploring Misandry in Video Games: Part 1
Trigger warning for a description of (video game) violence. A thank you to Hugh Ristik in the comment section of my last piece for inspiring this. I have actually managed to find a positive in the whole Duke Nukem thing: at least in DN you’re gunning down aliens and not your fellow man; that’s something…
Duke Nukem Forever’s failure might finally bring about a change in the way male gamers are portrayed in the media
For those that don’t know, Duke Nukem Forever is the much-belated sequel to the 1996 game Duke Nukem 3D, which sold reasonably well and garnered enough interest that a sequel — the aforementioned Duke Nukem Forever — was planned. It then spent so long in development hell that it earned its own running gag, in…