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