Don't Save the Princess

Playing video games is a personal experience. Sometimes it’s surprising just how personal it gets. The first time I…

I died 40 minutes into Disco Elysium. Tired, I had left my hotel room and interviewed a cafeteria manager…

In a 2016 interview, Escape From Tarkov designer Pavel Dyatlov said women weren’t in the game because they ”can’t…

Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.

There comes a time when every person must sit back, think about their life’s accomplishments, and wonder, “What…

Talking about Final Fantasy has become complicated. A lot of my favorite Final Fantasy memories are from games in…

Super Mario Maker 2 is coming on June 28, the latest in a growing line of Wii U games to get repurposed (and in this…

In the spring of 2004, the public perception was that Nintendo was in deep trouble. Going into the company’s E3…

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

Shipping, or the act of writing about, drawing or being enthusiastic about a particular fictional couple, has become…