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The following will contain spoilers for Batman: Arkham City as well as, briefly, The Dark Knight Rises. I finished Arkham City today – or, at least, finished the main storyline, which is an important distinction in an open-world game. The ending (the “good end” to the main story, that is), isn’t very satisfying. The lack…

Here’s just a quick personal update from me, rather than an essay: What I’m playing lately:RaiderZ, City of HeroesI got an old alt, my Electric Blaster (Her name is Electric Youth, because… Debbie Gibson, of course), up to 50 during Double XP Weekend. This makes (only) the 3rd 50 from me, because A) I have…

Over at Tap-Repeatedly, I’m having a series of conversations with Brandon Perdue about games and feminist issues. You can read Part One here, and Part Two here. More, hopefully, to come. These discussions are just two of us relating our honest views about the state of women and gaming right now. I am, obviously, a…

I’m weighing in on this new Tomb Raider thing. Specifically, what made me want to write was this insulting article (Kotaku), which gives a new context to the images we’ve seen from the new Tomb Raider game. Read through to the main article. Here I will just try to anticipate the most common rebuttals: I am…

I’m going to Origins, as I do most years! Event signup finally occurred today. This will be my last big gaming event for the year, though, as I focus on development and other stuff. Going to mix it up this year and try some games I have never played before, as I often do. But we have…

I’ve been interested in the intersection of food and games for a long time. Because of this, I raptly follow the recipes posted on Gourmet Gaming and I’ve tried cooking a few myself. When I got the chance from Ctrl+Alt+Defeat to write a regular column, he suggested it be about the relationship between games and… something else.…

At Tap we have been cataloging our backlogs all year. I’ve discovered, much like the rest of the crew, that I buy more games than I actually play, let alone finish. Then there comes the problem of games that you buy, and play, but that can’t actually be finished, in any real sense. I am still a…

My first PAX-related article is up at Tap! It’s a pretty standard “news” style post about the new Neverwinter MMO in development by Cryptic. Though I take pride in the fact that I’m such a huge Fourth Edition nerd that I didn’t get lost in the jargon. It was hip-deep, ya’ll. If you’re a fan of…

Updates have been a little spare lately due to my own development projects, but if you’re one of the people I handed a card to at PAX, you probably came to the right place! I plan to write up a little more about some games, and some game-community things I saw while I was at…

If you’re one of the small but growing number of people who follow me on Twitter, you might have seen this comment yesterday: Lots of people have spell-checkers on their computers. My spell-checker, much like yours, would like to correct what I wrote here, because it thinks it’s a typo. But the fact of the…