The Day with Girl Gamers Suck
Added at 12:37pm and filed under Geek Speak, awesome, gaming
Introducing my latest project – girlgamerssuck.com.
You know me. I like games. I often don’t have time to play as much as I would like – and when I do play, I’m often kinda crap – but I’ve grown up with gaming and I love it. It’s part of my childhood, part of my life and undeniably part of who I am.
I have loved the last six months I’ve been writing for AeroPause. Having skirted the world of online game geekery for a number of years – SHH.com aside, obviously – its been wonderful to fully immerse myself without the guilt or hang-ups. The guys I ‘work’ with are all kinds of awesome, and I hope to be there for many years to come. And it’s spurred me to run with an idea I’ve had for as long as I’ve been online – a gaming site for women.
Yes, there are loads already (although – in my defense – there wasn’t ONE when I first thought of the idea!). But they’re generally all pretty . . . meh. See, I don’t do pink. I don’t care about girl power. I also don’t care about pony games or dream weddings and I don’t play MMORPGs, either. So I’ve ended up creating what I hope is a gaming site for people who genuinely don’t give a shit about gender. People who wouldn’t mind exploring some of the psychology around gaming, as well as keep abreast with selected news and reviews.
It took forever to think of a name. I originally didn’t really want to focus on the ‘girl’ or female aspects but to be honest, it’s impossible for me to drive the message that girls can game without that focus – which is where my idea comes from. I didn’t want to rip off any other girl gamer sites with a similar name, but I realised that I also didn’t want to drop the female aspect – which is why I seemed to keep coming back to the sarcastically titled girlgamerssuck.com.
So please – come visit me! Comment and contribute. Is there anything you’d like to see on there – anything I’m missing? What do you like? Dislike? It’s been forever since I launched a new project from scratch so please tell me your thoughts and help me get this thing off the ground!
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The Day it was Child’s Play
Added at 9:41pm and filed under Geek Speak, gaming
No, I’m not talking about the film with the scary-ass talking doll.
Add an extra gift to your list this year and give whatever you can to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in over 60 hospitals worldwide.
Personally I’ve donated cash, but you can donate anything that hospitalised children would appreciate, including arts and crafts, toys, DVDs and – of course – age-appropriate games and consoles. (Visit the FAQ for a full list of what can and cannot be donated!) They’re trying to smash the magnificent $1.4m they managed to raise last year, so please – let’s help them do it.
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The Day The Other Sam Was Poorly
Added at 9:30pm and filed under Offline, family, gaming
I don’t know, I’ve been sat here at my laptop trying to think of how to ease myself into this paragraph, but there’s not an easy transition, really. My parents dog – a gorgeously fluffy, dopey, friendly German Shepherd who shares moniker with my first born – is really ill. On Monday he stopped breathing – simply quit breathing in and out, just like that – and my mother had to give him mouth-to-mouth to bring him around. (Aside: I originally took this with some skepticism. I think I’d assumed that she’d simply been mistaken, that maybe Fluffy Sam (as he’s referred to in order to distinguish him from my own Baby Sam) been heavily asleep or unconscious, but my brother was there at the time and said that when they tried to move him he was utterly lifeless so I’ve since had to reassess.) Today he went in for exploratory surgery, the vet looking for a blockage or a tumour or anyfuckingthing and the surgery itself is risky to a dog of his size and age (he’s 9 – 10 in April – which is a solid age for a Shepherd). He’s come out the other side okay, albeit groggy and a little tipsy on his feet, and whilst they can confirm that he’s fit and healthy, with a strong heart and good organ function and healthy lungs, they haven’t found anything to explain what happened.
Which leaves my mother spending the remainder of her birthday nursing her poorly doggy and frightened shitless every time he closes his eyes.
And he’s such a gorgeous old thing. So sweet and happy and affectionate. Even though I’ve never lived with him, the thought of losing him hurts as much as any dog we’ve lost prior. To him, M, S and I are family, as Fluffy Sam is very much family to us. :(
Anyway.
Finished up Fairytale Fights tonight. It’s been my game of choice recently and Sam (Baby, not Fluffy) and I have been playing through on multiplayer for the last couple of weeks. I have to say it: the boy haz skillz. Although there’s not a hell of a lot of combat dexterity required for it (it’s as insane a button-masher as I’ve ever played in my life – even gives Street Fighter a run for its money), there’s plenty of places where tricky timing and jumping skills are required and he pretty much nailed them. Mummy’s so proud. Heh.
The totally weird thing about this game is that it came with a 16+/Mature rating which is just . . . bizarre. I spent twenty minutes or so with it at the Eurogamer Expo last month and couldn’t figure it out. Now I’ve since completed it, I still don’t understand. Yeah, there’s violence and you chop people up with axes and kitchen knives but it’s all bright and cartoony and no worse than any old Tom & Jerry or Ren & Stimpey episode. So whilst it’s definitely not suitable for all, you definitely don’t need to be able to vote (or drive a car for my Stateside friends) to stomach it. ESRB doesn’t give much away, so my only guess is that the occasional curse word (bastard, ass – not much worse than that I don’t think?) must’ve pushed it over?
And finally, did you know that I broke the global exclusive that Akira Yamaoka – sound director and latterly producer of Silent Hill – left Konami? Yeah. Little me. Weird, eh? It’s been a surreal couple of days.
I’ve chucked the whos, whys and whats of my whole Yamaoka story behind the cut, so if you’re not interested in my nerdy SH stuff, you can promptly escape. Go on. I won’t hold it against you . . .
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The Day with Girl Gamers Suck (6)
Introducing my latest project – girlgamerssuck.com.
You know me. I like games. I often don’t have time to play as much as I would like – and when I do play, I’m often kinda crap – but I’ve grown up with gaming and I love it. It’s part of my childhood, part of my life and [...]
The Day I was Ill. Again (2)
Ugh. I’m ill again.
I think I recall crowing last year that I managed to miss most of the flu/coldy things floating about. My Fate God heard me, laughed outrageously, and has been making me pay ever since. Bastard. It feels like I’ve spent the last three months coughing and spluttering. I wouldn’t mind, but the [...]
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