Playing old Nancy Drew games as a gothic heroine
Its gameplay even replicates the form many gothic novels take: the epistolary.
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Playing old Nancy Drew games as a gothic heroine
Its gameplay even replicates the form many gothic novels take: the epistolary.
Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 2: Rose and the mother who won't reconcile
The 2006 Silent Hill film adapted the first game, but made its protagonist a mother, not a father
Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 1: The cult, the witch, the burning girl
When horror speaks in code
Shapes, not bodies: Queer readings of gaming's oldest avatars
In games like Adventure and Pac-Man, players were used to inhabiting bodies with far fewer defining features
10 years in, Stardew Valley's binary approach to gender still gets a failing grade
We can marry whoever we like in Pelican Town, so why no they/them pronouns?
Why do cozy games keep asking us to work, and why does it feel so good?
Developers of games like A Short Hike and Tiny Bookshop weigh in on why even labor feels nice in their games.
The monster was right
How Doki Doki Literature Club exposes dating sims as systems that punish female autonomy