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Yesterday a thing happened on Twitter. Vox Media is a new game news web site in development. They started their media blitz by talking about how they were all “handsome” and were then forced to answer the question “are there any women on your staff?” So, well, no: this is a thing started by dudes…

This will probably be the last time I write about Skyrim here. Probably because I should really move on to something else, considering my play time, even though I’m not even actually “done” with either the main quest or the war quests of the game. My To Do List is finally shrinking to something manageable (in…

Trying out a new template. I also installed a mobile template if you are reading my blog on the go. If you are having any problems with it let me know. I made Critical Distance this week with my article on Tap! I know I’m just drawing a big circle by pointing this out. But all the…

Today, I wrote a little about failure. You can read it on Tap-Repeatedly. http://tap-repeatedly.com/2011/12/08/the-incredible-threat-of-failure/ When I was finishing up my graduate degree, my interest in video game narrative started to take over my life, and is what I wrote about in my thesis. In particular, I was interested on how what is done by a…

I found out today there will be no more GameSetWatch. I am saddened! They had some of the neatest, quirkiest game coverage, and that’s, for example, where I learned so much about Roguelikes and Dating sims. Other than that, yeah, mostly playing Skyrim. Insert standard comment about how I’m 100 hours in and haven’t done…

Over on Tap, the thread I started about Skyrim kind of exploded. Skyrim is obviously somewhat controversial and as a game of the size that it is, there is so much to discuss that a five-hour preview barely scratches the surface.  I should have realized that before posting, but I did anyway, because it’s good to…

Not that you needed to hear it from me, but, the top-rated comp games have been announced, and you can go here to find out more. Congratulations to the winners… heck, to all the participants, because you made and released a game! The top-rated game turned out to be Taco Fiction, a game about which…

So last night like thousands of other people I was up a bit late playing Skyrim on Steam. I was waiting around to — …you know, a lot of people don’t have this yet, so I’ll buffer just a little and put in a spoiler tag. I’m not sure how to say what part of…

I started playing Skyrim yesterday! Then I wrote a bit about it, at Tap-Repeatedly. I might chronicle Cultural Cat Girl’s adventures here in greater specificity, but only if I find the time between actually playing the game. I am a huge fan of taking screenshots, though.

The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M is likely to be the last comp game that I review, because I can’t figure out how to get Ted Paladin and the Case of the Abandoned House to run right, and the comp itself is coming to a close very soon. I admit I had a small…