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Playing Dirty: Dracula wears eyeliner, part II
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games:Last week we looked at the changing art style -- and heros -- of the Castlevania series. From manly...
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Off the Grid: Scrabble and the elusive letter "Q"
This week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes to Off the Grid, Scott Jon Siegel's column on gaming away from the television screen or monitor. Scrabble is not a sexy game. When you think of Scrabble, what do...
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Playing Dirty: Good enough to eat
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games:What's the deal with video-game cakes?Gaming is a manly pastime. We can deny it all we want, but...
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Playing Dirty: Getting your game on while you get it on
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games: Valentine's Day is, if nothing else, sexy. Call it about love, call it about chocolate, call it...
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Playing Dirty: Night Elves on their knees
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games: A beautiful elf has lost her clothes. Now, standing high on a rock, her long, pointy ears aren't...
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GDC 07: Trip Hawkins on Mobile Gaming's "Inferiority Complex"
EA founder, Digital Chocolate CEO, and self-proclaimed "slut for new media" Trip Hawkins opened up the Mobile Gaming track this morning with a talk about the potential of, well, mobile gaming. Hawkins...
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GDC 07: How to get your indie game published
It seems like everybody's hitting it big publishing their indie games through services like Xbox Live Arcade. But what about you? For those among us still clinging to indie projects but burning to get...
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Send Manifesto your games that cause pain
Last night we gave you some tips from the "Console/PC Distribution Gatekeepers" panel about publishing your indie game. One of the main things we told you execs like Microsoft's Ross Erickson kept...
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Beer makes even mobile gaming more attractive
Mobile gaming? Eh. Free beer? Hooray! Thus was born the Mobile Game Innovation Hunt, yesterday's closing event for the first day of GDC's Mobile Games Summit. 15 mobile developers, including Digital...
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First women's suffrage and now this
As far as game merch goes, us girls usually get shafted. We get Princess Peach shirts and men get ... everything else. For the most part though, the merch here at GDC is pretty well divided. There are...
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McGonigal's new ARG looking for answers to oil crisis
At her Serious Games keynote this morning, Jane McGonigal, ex-lead designer for alternate reality game big shot 42 Entertainment, announced her new ARG, World Without Oil. McGonigal calls the game --...
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Clowns falling down stairs: the ultimate physics game
Yesterday, in his talk at the Independent Games Summit, Matthew Wegner beat up clowns. To be specific, he showed a physics sim clip of a dozen full-costumed clown ragdolls tumbling helplessly down a...
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Sony's 'Home' sex haven in disguise (perhaps?)
That Sony's new social channel "Home" looks suspiciously like Second Life is hardly news to anyone who's seen the footage from Harrison's keynote. What I couldn't help giggling about the whole time he...
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Fils-Aime? Do I have a Reginald Fils-Aime?
Apparently Reggie was in the audience at Phil Harrison's Sony keynote this morning, because waiting for him outside was this dark, important-looking vehicle and a driver who wasn't so pleased to have...
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Ray finds her first line in a GDC women's restroom
Today game developer and pro-girl consultant Sheri Graner Ray encountered something she'd never seen before in all her years at GDC: a line in a women's bathroom. Ray says when she first started...
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Miyamoto Mii graces Nintendo chests
Perched proudly on the chests (okay, the shirts) of every employee at the Nintendo expo booth is an adorable Miyamoto Mii -- the same one he showed off a few moments ago in his keynote. Though last...
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M.M.O.F.O's and other video-game thugs
Prepare to take a beating. Yesterday and today, independent New York developer Gamelab has been heading Gangs of GDC, an in-conference game running on various floors of the expo center. The idea is to...
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Playing Dirty: We fit together!
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games: Watching Alexey Pajitnov receive the First Penquin award at this year's Game Developer's Choice...
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Howling Rayman Raving Rabbids cake
Other games blogs may have recently sworn off games cakes, but here at Joystiq this still looks delicious. Then again, this blogger does have a soft spot for vanilla icing. We're not sure where the...
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Playing Dirty: Lady, get off the road
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games: Men say women are bad drivers. This confuses me greatly. As a woman behind the wheel -- with the...
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Earth really is full of game cakes
Do you love game cakes? So does Gamecakes.com! In answer to the ever-growing number of game-related cakes that have flooded the game world copycat-murder style, Kotaku's Michael Fahey and Joystiq's...
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Playing Dirty: Searching for sex in Club Penguin
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games: Sex is everywhere. That's true in real life, that's true on the internet, and that's definitely...
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Playing Dirty: Love on the auction block
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games: Do you ever get the feeling dating is a game? Or that racking up MySpace friends is like scoring...
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Playing Dirty: Going head to head in bed
Every other week, Bonnie Ruberg contributes Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games: Like every good story, a good game needs a conflict. Sometimes the conflict is obvious (aliens are...
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Playing Dirty: Women Warriors and Fairy Queens
Every other week for the past nine months, Bonnie Ruberg has contributed Playing Dirty, a column on sex and gender in video games. Since Bonnie is taking a hiatus to work for The Village Voice, this...
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