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News Roundup: Happy November!
TGIF, Border House folks! This is the second installment of our new feature where we summarize the week in gaming and link to our favorite articles of the week. Be sure to add your own news and links in the … Continue reading
Posted in General Gaming
Tagged assassins creed 3, grand theft auto V, halo 4, news, news roundup
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Assassin’s Creed 3 Multiplayer Trailer Makes Me Cringe
Last week, Ubisoft posted a trailer for the multiplayer mode of upcoming game Assassin’s Creed 3. Predictably, it features whites and Native Americans, both men and women, killing each other with rifles, hammers, daggers and the like. Standard procedure for … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games
Tagged advertising, assassins creed 3, female characters, marketing, misogyny, Ubisoft, women
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Ubisoft Hired a Mohawk Cultural Consultant for Assassin’s Creed III
Time’s Techland blog has an interesting article about how the Ubisoft Montreal team went about creating and developing Connor, Assassin’s Creed III‘s Mohawk protagonist. It is nice to read about how the developers recognized that their own lack of knowledge … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games, PC Games
Tagged assassin's creed, assassins creed 3, time, Ubisoft, ubisoft montreal
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Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation for Vita to Star a Woman of Color
Because we really need some good news this week: via Joystiq and Nyleveia, a NeoGAF user has posted scans from the most recent issue of Game Informer that has the first details of a companion game to Assassin’s Creed III … Continue reading
My Super LE3T Feminist E3 Review
The following is a guest post by Zaewen: Zaewen is a white, straight, cis woman and avid feminist gamer, with MMOs being her favorite genre. She has a degree in psychology, a Texas accent, and spends most of her free … Continue reading
Posted in General Gaming
Tagged assassins creed 3, batman arkham city, battlefield 3, dragons crown, e3, fable 3, kingdoms of amalur, mass effect 3, Neverwinter, RIFT, Saints Row 3, skyrim, SWTOR, tomb raider, uncharted 3, Zelda
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