We, as a society, love to be scared. From folk tales of spirits and goblins told about the fire, to being huddled up in a dark room in front of a TV watching the latest Stephen King adaptation, fear and
Girls, Guns And Heaving Buns
Forgive the title. It rhymed and I’m going somewhere with this. Female representation in video games. Huh boy. We’re diving into a subject that’s partially kept video games from being seen in scholarly circles as being on equal footing with
Apocalypse How
Western, or American, culture has a long-standing and irrepressible love affair with its own impending doom. But can you really blame us? Ever since the foundation of America, the West has been a place whose culture has been steeped in
Your Friendly Neighborhood Genre-Bending Trope
A thought was once presented to me that stuck in my mind to this day: the idea that costumed superheroes are a contemporary answer to the chivalric romances, the ‘knight in shining armour’ tales that adorned the parchment of medieval
Mission statement
Video games are a relatively new form of narrative in the grand scheme of things, and for quite a while, they were seen by society at large as less like stories, and more like toys, or a ‘geek hobby’, instantly