GYGO: Crime and Punishment

GYGO: Crime and Punishment

Howdy-ho, gamerinos! What have you been playing this week? I took the weekend to emotionally recover from playing The Last of Us: Left Behind, and if The Last of Us 2 is even half as emotional I’ll be crying about Ellie and Joel well into 2021. Death Stranding was also big news this week, and I have guiltily and furtively set aside the rest of my to-play pile and am downloading as I write.

Aside from Death Stranding, here’s what else made the news this week. (more…)

GYGO: Crime and Punishment

GYGO: Game Streaming Services Ho!

Ahoy, gamers of all genders! It’s me again, your snarky games pirate, here to take you out to the vast gaming sea. This last week was the Game Developers Conference (known better as GDC), and thus, several of the news tidbits gathered here today are big announcements from big companies selling big new things. (more…)

GYGO: Crime and Punishment

GYGO: Bowser Takes Over Nintendo and Ubisoft Breaks Into TV

Hello, and welcome once more to the GYGO arena. Here, we gather gaming news from all over the world to… fight? For your pleasure? Sure.

We’ve been battling tree-felling, power-cutting winds here in Pittsburgh, but I have emerged victorious as a continued haver of internet, so here I am, able to bring you this bulletin royale. (more…)

The Women Stars of E3 2018

The Women Stars of E3 2018

E3’s over and the gaming community is slowly falling back into the normal swing of things, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still lessons to be learned from this year’s show. Feminist Frequency recently published their yearly look at the number of women-centric video games showcased at E3, and while the numbers are still frustratingly low (8 percent of games vs. 24 percent featuring men), the games we did get show plenty of promise. I want to take a look at the specific games which starred female protagonists and/or featured women predominantly in their trailers, broken down by press conference. E3 has a long way to go toward equality, but we still have some games to look forward to in the next couple of years. (more…)

Enchanted to Meet You: Speculation on Romance Options in Dragon Age 4

Enchanted to Meet You: Speculation on Romance Options in Dragon Age 4

With the vaguest of hints about a new Dragon Age game from its executive producer, Mark Darrah, fans of the series are buzzing over a new installment. Worrying rumours of an online gameplay element surfaced, but were thankfully clarified: the new game would be “story & character focused.” Naturally, I obsessed about the most important matter of all: who would the romance options be this time?

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