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Yes, This

 "There was no evil executive coming in from on high telling us to make the game more lowbrow. The team was not a bunch of sniveling adolescent boys (a couple were, to be honest, but most we...

02 Mai 12

Catch-Up Catch-Up

Agh, well! Ive done that thing again where I dont update my blog, and now so much has happened that I keep putting off the doubless-endless update until the ghostly thing gets larger and larger. Unfo...

18 Apr 12

"Angry Birds, it seems, is our Tetris: the string of digital prayer beads that our entire culture can twiddle in moments of rapture or anxiety — economic, political or existential."-- Sam And...

04 Apr 12

True Enough

"There is value, though, in the notion of the geek role model. Though many of us have enjoyed uplift to a higher plane of living there are still millions stuck in podunk towns, surrounded by bull...

30 Mär 12

Desperation

"Users hide comfortably behind their computer screens and type the most obnoxiously offensive things they can think of and thirstily WAIT for an angry response; a validation of their modest effor...

29 Mär 12

About That Fake Geek Girls Article

Im not really into being called a "geek" or a "nerd." Everyone tells me, "of course you are: youre in video games for a living." They roll out checklists, even, a litany of th...

27 Mär 12

Is It Summer Yet

Well, I survived GDC, and we wrote unholy tons of great talk coverage from smart, exciting developers! I was on the One Life Left radio show with famous people one night!! I did a lot of work, but so...

19 Mär 12

I Hate Picking Headlines

Ive talked to you guys a little about Chrono Cross soundtrack before. For Kirk Hamiltons weekly music block over at Kotaku (Kotaku has "programming" now, if you hadnt heard), he asked me to k...

22 Feb 12

Meow

"Leigh Alexander has become a central figure in the debate, whether she likes it or not."-- Smashing stereotypes around women and gaming, CBC News

17 Feb 12

I Guess I Got My Swagger Back

The following is a paraphrase of an email I got a couple of weeks ago, potentially containing a few direct quotes by accident.Q: Dear Leigh Alexander, I greatly enjoy your Sexyvideo Gameland blog. Bu...

06 Feb 12

Broken Languages

I finally wrote an exhaustive review of Katawa Shoujo, the visual romance novel set in a facility for disabled teens (you may recall I first covered it back in 2010, exploring the cultural genesis of...

31 Jan 12

Babys First Game Review

When I was a kid I didnt necessarily aspire to be a video game journalist; primarily I wanted to be an actress, and then occasionally I had designs on becoming a surgeon, until my third grade teacher...

23 Jan 12

Its Raining

Continuing with my commitment to revisit the Metal Gear Solid franchise alongside the HD re-release, Ive finally written a fairly lavish tribute to what I consider to be overall the finest entry: MGS...

23 Jan 12

Scoring Sentimentality

When it comes to entertainment media, I generally think objectivity is a ridiculous notion. We can accept this in most kinds of art -- i.e, "I dont like this" is not thought to be analogous t...

16 Jan 12

Take Care Of Each Other

So given that there are still so many patently horrible people in the world, it continues to be important to emphasize what we all can do to contribute to a civilized, mature and inclusive culture ar...

13 Jan 12

Performance

"Its sad to me to think that were the entertainment industry, and were the most technologically advanced of all the entertainment industries, and yet we seem to be lacking in a social progressivi...

13 Jan 12

Gone Baby Gone

I saved Skyward Sword for after the holidays, despite the fact new Zelda games are currently a sort of Christmas-to-New Years kind of ritual for many people.Im really liking it so far, inasmuch as I ...

10 Jan 12

Happy New Year!

Happy new year, everyone! Hope youve all had a good holiday. I spent several solid days being drunk and playing Skyward Sword, which I hadnt gotten to until now. I suppose Ill have some kind of forma...

03 Jan 12

Sucks

"One of the biggest failings of the videogame industry is that very few people are famous for making games."-- Gus Mastrapa, Hating on the VGAs is Boring

16 Dez 11

Its The Most Wonderful Time

Thingsve been crazy since my trip to Toronto. Id never been, and I absolutely loved it. What impressed me most was the fact that the art and tech community there seems to exist on a spectrum, with ma...

16 Dez 11

Love On The Battlefield

The big lie of war in video games is that its something you can win. -- Robert YangThis week, my Metal Gear Solid retrospective heads to Kotaku for a second. When I found myself thinking over the thi...

05 Dez 11

Big Ups

Happy belated Thanksgiving, Americans. I stayed at my familys place in Massachusetts for the holiday, and now that Im back in New York I am fighting to catch up amid the whirlwind of work that Decemb...

28 Nov 11

Metal Gear Solid And The Uncommon In The Common

Im going to send you a love letter, my dear. Do you know what that is? Its a bullet straight from my gun to your heart." -- Sniper WolfI just published this Edge column about how I think its impo...

22 Nov 11

Revisiting My Favorites

Hows everyone been? I could talk about how many brand new video games I have over here; I could talk about Skyward Sword or Skyrim or something like that. But I wont, actually -- there are a lot of p...

21 Nov 11

Tough Act

"As game creators, we put up too much front in our creations and we dont make ourselves nearly vulnerable enough. I think our audience senses this, and they emotionally withdraw from our games.&#...

11 Nov 11

Thank You

My latest Kotaku column is an expression of some of my anger, fatigue and frustration at the "woman in games" role I have adopted, at times uneasily and at other times poorly, throughout my c...

01 Nov 11

PRACTICE Makes Perfect

I had a whole Silent Hill tribute post planned for Halloween, but Ive been too busy. I went to GDC Online with Gamasutra -- and I also spoke at the Game Narrative Summit with friends Chris Dahlen, Ki...

31 Okt 11

Melancholy Moo

I was finally able to do a pretty in-depth story thats been important to me for some time. The subject is my friend, Ian Bogost, and the two major projects hes worked on in the last year or so. At a ...

06 Okt 11

Fans Are Intense

I attended the Call of Duty XP event out in Los Angeles a bit over a week ago, and it was really elaborate. My summary of the event itself is here. The main draw was ostensibly the opportunity f...

13 Sep 11

Live From Hurricane Irene

Hi everybody -- sadly, Im not at PAX like EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY GAMING FRIENDS. Im coming to you live from a "Zone B Hurricane Bunker" at the border of Bushwick, Brooklyn. The picture you se...

28 Aug 11

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