Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Gaymercon!

A few days ago, I blogged my thoughts on Gaymercon, and made a reference to the Westboro Baptist Church. Little did I know that on the same day, it was confirmed that Westboro really are planning to boycott, almost a year in advance. What a coincidence! Rebekah Phelps-Roper posted on twitter that the Church had […]

Gaymercon: A Cynic’s View

Conventions these days aren’t hard to come by. Gaming events and conventions, even for specific genres, are in no short supply. With this in mind, I wasn’t particularly surprised to hear of ‘Gaymercon’, another Kickstarter project that continued the trend of going viral and reaching its funding goal of $25,000 and surpassing it in a […]

In Defence of DmC: Devil May Cry

Developer Ninja Theory have been an unpredictable crew this generation. PS3 launch title Heavenly Sword received generally positive reviews whereas the more recent Enslaved was met with harsh criticism. Ninja Theory’s head honcho, Tameem Antoniades suspected that the latter’s poor sales and reception had less to do with the product itself and more to do […]

Problems of Political Polarisation and Poe’s Law

When people want to talk politics, it often boils down to people stating their positions and then being classed, usually by someone else, as ‘left’ or ‘right’. It goes without saying there’s more than that (extreme right, moderate left, right-leaning, etc.) but it’s simple and, most of the time, effective. In recent years, I’ve been […]

Why Call of Duty Won’t Die

Call of Duty is a franchise with simple design: an online-heavy, fast-paced first-person-shooter with little rewards every few seconds of play, a lack of consequence, a co-operative minigame, and a cinematic thrill ride of a single-player campaign. So how is it that the success of a series so simple seems so confusing to gamers and […]

Answering “Can You Be a Gay Christian?”

In the endless timesink that is Youtube, I tend to stick to four particular subjects: video games, LGBT, religion, and politics. Four things it’s a seriously bad idea to talk about in person, with the last three often having an overlap. A video recently popped up in my suggestions sidebar, with the title “Can You […]

Mass Effect 3′s Ending: A Thorough Criticism (3/3)

Well, that wasn’t so hard after all. Grab your coffees, dear readers, it’s a long one. In its defence of the ending, the gaming media caught a heavy dose of George Bush Syndrome: you start your statement with great confidence and a plan laid out in your head, but midway through you start to mess […]