It's a really, really big "if."
The late comedian Mitch Hedberg had a joke about Little League. It went like this: “I wish I could play Little League now; I’d kick some fuckin’ ass.” Pokemon Go is not Little League. Pokemon Go is a mobile game that anybody with a smart phone can play, and apparently nearly everybody is playing it. … Read more
Sigh. Guys, Zarya is a character in a video game. Not a real person auditioning to be your girlfriend.
Today at PAX East, Blizzard revealed two new playable characters for its upcoming FPS game Overwatch, announced last November at BlizzCon. You can see a video of the entire presentation here. The two heroes announced are a futuristic outlaw gunslinger called McCree, and a Russian “tank” soldier called Zarya. Game director for Overwatch Jeff Kaplan … Read more
Last November during BlizzCon, I wrote a post critiquing the design of some of the female playable characters as compared to the male characters in the newly revealed but not yet released FPS game Overwatch. In it, I addressed the following comment made by Blizzard senior vice president Chris Metzen: Specifically for Overwatch over the … Read more
Note: Follow-up posts here, here, and here. ————————————————- Yesterday at BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment’s annual conference in Anaheim, Blizzard unveiled a new game. Yeah, I know, so what? New games are announced all the time. Heck, Blizzard announces new games all the time. So what was it this time– a new expansion for World of Warcraft? Starcraft … Read more