“Mass Effect 3 is a great game until the last few minutes, they destroy
everything fans have been playing for in the past 5 years.”

As of writing this, there are over 3,000 signatures on the petition to change the end of Mass Effect 3. That is not a lot of people, but it is enough people to be interesting, especially given the recent attack on BioWare employee Jennifer Hepler. I think there’s something going on here about the types of people who play games (beyond the presence of misogynerds) and how they relate to them. (more…)

I am turning 30 (tomorrow? yesterday? 2/15/2012), so I’m going to allow myself some indulgence and I’m going to talk about adolescence a bit. Say you’re at a bar, or something, and someone asks you what you do and you rattle off your usual answer which is a combination of your day job and, oh, yeah, you freelance. And then they ask what you write about, and you say “videogames” and they think it’s neat and would like to know more but you’re a little drunk and in the beginning stages of an anxiety attack. (more…)

“We like lists because we don’t want to die.” – Umberto Eco (more…)