Damsels in Distress

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut is a reminder that the time loop horror game was one of last year’s best

35 years on, Princess Peach’s lot is somehow still primarily about being kidnapped and rescued. But is there hope on…

In the late 90’s, amongst a wave of all-new “Games for Girls”, Barbie appeared on CD-ROM for the first time. I was…

Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva,…

Nintendo’s Princess Peach is the quintessential damsel in distress. She’s such a damsel cliché that she’s more…

Batman: Arkham Knight spins one of the most ambitious video game stories ever told, and watching it thunder to its…

A woman who helped market a wildly popular upcoming Conan board game, which raised over $3 million on Kickstarter in…

Minutes after I walked through a metal detector—and some time before she was flocked by well-wishers at the…

A cultural critic who regularly critiques modern feminists is weighing in on the ongoing debate about women in…

Feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian has good things to say about a bunch of games in the third part of her analysis of…