A Prisoner of the Abject

Sarah Kerrigan's Transformations throughout StarCraft. I want to preface this blog post with two things. 1. I'm only looking at Kerrigan through the games, not any of the surrounding media. 2. I'm probably wrong about all of this, so don't get too upset about anything I say. I've borrowed the title of this post from... Continue Reading →

Do games touch us deeper…

...because we live them? Lately I've been reading quite a bit about horror in cinema and other media to sort out some thoughts that have been bothering me lately. I think most of us are aware of the immersion we gain by playing games. If we like the games we can sit for hours and... Continue Reading →

One of Those Moments – Introducing the Banshee

In Mass Effect 3 the Reaper invasion is happening full force, something Cmdr Shepard has warned the Alliance and the Council, two major forces in intergalactic politics, about since the first game. They're attaching and they're using the populations on the worlds they destroy against itself by having it transformed. One of the most powerful... Continue Reading →

Games as painkillers

Those who know me, know that I have frequent issues with headaches and migraines. This is something I've had all my life, but it is actually getting a lot better now that I'm not under so much work related stress or having a depression anymore. However, the other day I had another migraine that was... Continue Reading →

Voice Actors!

I have this thing about games that I suspect is tied into my sensitivity to noise. I need games to have good voice acting if I'm to enjoy them. Thankfully, games have moved away from being cartoons to being real acting and I'm super grateful for that. Because I'm not a native English speaker, I... Continue Reading →

Problematic Enemies – The Broodmother

[...] The symbol of the monster, the abject, exists to embody and assuage our fears of the natural and unruly body. In order to maintain the current social order, which privileges the intellectual and social over the emotional and biological, fat bodies must become monstrous. They are failures. They are the abnormal that delineates the... Continue Reading →

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