Just a place to pile and share stuff. And the occasional art.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.
And that, ladies and gentlesauropoda, will be the most beautiful game every created.
Journey (Playstation 3)
Who says video games can’t be art?
One of the most beautiful games I have ever played <3
Let’s face up to facts- the vast majority of interactive adventures typically don’t include features, settings, and concepts that would be considered appealing to women. That’s not a sexist comment; it’s just an observation based on historic fact. As some form of violence - on whatever level - is usually a mainstay, that is hardly conducive to thoughts of female entertainment. In other words, the standard Lifetime flick is nothing like your standard video game. Yes, stereotypes play a role and while the girls battle that - as all of us battled the general gamer stereotype for many years - I wonder if they realize that they’re facing a steeper climb.
The most popular video games every year most often include, for the lack of a better term, “guy stuff.” The mainstream world will see it this way, regardless of what you perceive to be the truth. As boys, we were nerds for playing games, but we were playing virtual versions of G.I. Joe, now weren’t we? I only have one question: how do female gamers wish to be viewed? And don’t reply, “we just want to be seen as gamers, and that’s it,” because…well, I’m not buying that right now.
Ben Dutka of PlayStation 3 wankfest “PSX Extreme” expressing disbelief that women would want anything to go with games that involve “guy stuff”.
Of course, a lot of “guy stuff” in video games include rape and a complete lack of awesome female characters. So yeah, maybe that should change. But seriously? The video game community needs to fucking step it up, because they’re missing out on a HUGE potential market.
(For more commentary on the incompetence on the video game world at large, follow Game Journos are Incompetent Fuckwits!)
“I wonder if the realize that they’re facing a steeper climb.”
NO SHIT, BUTTKA.
(via b-mommy)
You don’t buy that we need to be seen as gamers? What, just because games with lack of representation or sexist undertones don’t exist? WELL. IMAGINE THAT.
How about we be seen as people and customers who are WANTING TO GIVE YOU MONEY, ASSBUTT. God. It’s not complicated.
Also, I’d play your “Guy Stuff” games if they weren’t ridiculously repetitive from one title to the next across different companies. :| Believe me, I’ve tried.
(via kamidoodles)
Awww… I love it when the little boys come out and get all ‘splainy with we bitty, unknowing girls. I mean, how are we to know what we like in video games if someone didn’t come along and tell us. Thank you, buddy, for that kind service you’ve performed.
I had more to say, but I think there’s a Lifetime movie about to come on, and clearly I can’t multitask while that’s on.
(via ouyangdan)
Good grief. Hey, buddy, I DO want to be viewed as a gamer because that’s what I am. And I’ve enjoyed a lot of games that you would view as part of the “guy stuff.” I enjoy horror, I enjoy a good fight in a game, and I enjoy a rollicking adventure over an imaginative landscape. I’m not asking for something outrageous. Just stop treating female characters like they’re the sex appeal and that’s it. They can be as interesting, flawed, and awesome as any guy character, if you put the work in. Here’s one tip to help: if your videogame introduces a female character by either panning up to her ass or an upward shot to her tits, you’re doing it wrong and I am onto your sexist viewpoint.
Way to undermine your whole argument by using old stereotypes for women and men.
(via vanessacsketch)
(Source: stfusexists)
Shadow of the Colossus production illustations (Team ICO for PlayStation 2, 2005).
Click one of the pics for zoom in mode!
I can’t wait for these games for the PS3!
Psychologist Says Blaming Games For Violence Is Racistbz
In an interview with Forbes, clinical psychologist Christopher Ferguson outlines his thoughts. “I know it’s a little controversial to say, but there’s a certain type of racism in place with these killings,” he says. “When shootings happen in an inner city in minority-populated schools, video games are never brought up. But when these things happen in white majority schools and in the suburbs, people start to freak out and video games are inevitably blamed. I think that there’s a certain element of racism or ignorance here.”
“Scientifically, the idea that video game violence, movie, or television violence contributes to mass homicides is pretty much a debunked idea that has no real basis to it,” he says later in the interview. “I think certainly the Supreme Court case helped, especially since they were so clear in pointing out that current research was not able to support that line of reasoning.”
This is actually a really good point. I rarely, if ever, see video games and other forms of media violence blamed for crimes committed by minorities - that’s nearly always reserved for whites. I wonder if the Columbine massacre and the resulting backlash against videogames would have been different had the two men not been white. What would have been the scapegoat then? There’s definitely a racial difference between who is given an internal vs. external locus of control regarding why crimes are committed. Whites (I’m speaking generally here) are afforded an external locus (games, bad parenting, etc) while minorities are portrayed as having an inherent criminality. I never realized videogames were a part of this paradigm.
(Source: coldbloodedboy)
Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia. Sol Ciel and The Floating City.
From Dust/Project Dust. Tribal and the Sea Concept Art.
So interested in this game
Guild Wars 2. “Kite”
Whoa. Are you sure this is concept art? It looks like, well. Art.
The artists over at Arenanet are renowned for having stunning conceptart. that was the sole reason why I got into the original Guild Wars. :)
(Source: saveroomminibar)
Six Amazon Kindle Screensavers based classic book covers and videogames.
Each cover is 600X800 and ready to use.
From Thirty Days of Videogames
