Recently, Polygon asked: "who is Final Fantasy 15's hottest boy?" Normally, this is the sort of content I am here for. As you may remember, some excellent friends and I did a panel on male sexualization in games and some of the problems surrounding it at Indiecade East. So an article about which dudes in an upcoming… Continue reading Boys We Like
Category: Body Types in Games
Trapped
I feel kinda trapped when it comes to Overwatch’s Roadhog. As I have said about six million times, I find his design really upsetting in the sense that it’s lazy and reflects all the bad tropes of fat character design. But this week I found an entirely new way to be upset about Roadhog, since I was… Continue reading Trapped
Please Leave
Hey, remember Mortal Kombat X? The series reboot by NetherRealm? Came out early last year. I remember it, because in April I wrote the game's subtle deployment of the first canon gay character in the MK series, Kung Jin, for Paste Magazine's games section. In said article I was pleased with the way they handled the character's… Continue reading Please Leave
Whole Hog
This is a short post. But I am cranky. Like many people in the gaming culture/press/business/what-have-you, I have spent many a moment over the past couple days looking at my Battle.net client longingly, hoping I too will suddenly receive a beta invite for Blizzard’s upcoming TF2-alike, Overwatch. To kill some time, I decided to look… Continue reading Whole Hog
Touch Me
Where do I start. On Thursday, Robert Yang put out a game called Rinse and Repeat. It is a game that is part of Robert's growing body of work on making... well, gay sex games. However, these are not games about gay sex in the "want to watch some folks with cocks do it" way; rather, they're about… Continue reading Touch Me
Apropos of Nothing
It's, uh... it's been a heck of a couple weeks, hasn't it. A lot of stuff has happened. For a few glorious hours last Monday, many of us in the Twittersphere indulged in a bit of saucy appreciation of Street Fighter V's bearded alt-costume "Hot Ryu" and how in many ways our desire to either have… Continue reading Apropos of Nothing
Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)
So, let's talk about Cobra Club, the dick pic simulator by Robert Yang, for a little bit. Because the content of the game is NSFW -- and because I'm going to spoil some of the game's stuff -- you can find the rest of this post under the fold. I'm always in a weird place… Continue reading Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)
Dys-embodied
I originally wasn't going to write this post. This morning I read a great piece in Offworld by Aevee Bee on video game bodies and physical conflict as metaphor for interpersonal conflict. I really liked the kinaesthetic metaphors and language Aevee used in the piece. They were this great bridge between the conceptual material and… Continue reading Dys-embodied