Category: Datorspel

Achievement Unlocked!

I've been quoted in a Master's thesis. Or rather this blog has. Scoot on over to Frida Markendahl's Making (a) difference in games Feminist game creation and other interferences with the Swedish video game industry’s reproduction of gendered sameness and read my wise words. I sound really smart when she quotes me! I have a... Continue Reading →

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Rest in Peace, Corey

An image of four suits from the game Anthem, hovering in front of a majestic landscape.

This is the first time I've ever experienced the death of a colleague. Friends, yes. Grandparents and my father, his brother, yes. But I worked with Corey, and that changes how his passing impacts me and the world around me. I'm not going to get long winded in this post. BioWare has already released a... Continue Reading →

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Anthem

An image of four suits from the game Anthem, hovering in front of a majestic landscape.

I can finally talk a bit about what it is that I'm working on for BioWare in Edmonton. The game is called Anthem. The teaser trailer was released yesterday, a very dramatic piece of entertainment, and today during the Microsoft E3 press conference, the gameplay trailer was revealed. Teaser trailer I'm very proud to be... Continue Reading →

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What it means to be someone

I've been playing Horizon Zero Dawn quite a bit this weekend. In fact, I played it so much I got a migraine, because I forgot to eat and to drink and to do anything, really, apart from playing that damned game. Now I know issues have been raised with the vocabulary used in the game,... Continue Reading →

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Preach Sister!

Ashley Judd gave a very intense speech at a TED event last year, and it has recently been released to the public. For me, this is something I've been trying to say for ages. We HAVE to stop treating women as props, objects to push the story forward. We have to stop thinking it's okay... Continue Reading →

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Locking ourselves in

an image showing two controllers, and superimposed the icon of feminism, a closed fist in a symbol for woman.

I have been spending a lot of time recently thinking about the games industry, gaming culture and the strong divides that exist within the culture and the industry. Less so within the industry than the culture. The divides that I'm talking about are of course the idea that there are two camps in the gaming... Continue Reading →

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