Tag Archives: LGBT

IF Game of the Day: What’s in a Name? by Gaming Pixie

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Alex

Check out What’s in a Name?, by Gaming Pixie, which is about her experience of coming out as bisexual. As she describes it, it’s “probably not quite what you’d expect.” (Please note it describes biphobic comments.) If you have made … Continue reading →

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Star Wars: The Old Republic and Same Gender Romance

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Gunthera1

Players of the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic will soon see a long awaited option available to them in game: same gender romance! This has been discussed for awhile (see our January 2012 review of the game) but we … Continue reading →

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Same Sex Romance and Mass Effect 3

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Gunthera1

Though rare, same sex romance options are not new to video games. We have seen them Jade Empire, The Sims, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the Dragon Age series. But lately, BioWare has had some shining moments in this … Continue reading →

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Three Things: Analogue, PAX East Meetup, Kotaku News

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Alex

Three things that may be of interest to Border House readers: Firstly, Christine Love’s latest game, Analogue: A Hate Story is now available here! You may recall that her last game, don’t take it personally, babe, it just ain’t your … Continue reading →

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EA Employees: It Gets Better

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Denis Farr

The “It Gets Better” campaign has had its fair share of critiques and attempts at constructive criticism. At the same time, the videos it has produced often have the effect of leaving me very teary-eyed. Therefore, while I will still … Continue reading →

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Gay (But Not “Gay”) Characters in Video Games

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Guest

by guest contributor Robert Yang, originally posted at Radiator Design Blog Robert Yang is currently an MFA student studying “Design and Technology” at Parsons, The New School for Design. If he’s famous for anything, it’s probably for his artsy-fartsy Half-Life … Continue reading →

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A guide to gay characters in World of Warcraft

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Tami Baribeau

Disclaimer: There are no confirmed cases of gay characters by the World of Warcraft developers.  Most of these are either Belligerent Sexual Tension, wishful thinking, or a little bit of both.  Regardless, it’s fun to imagine that Azeroth isn’t completely … Continue reading →

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What tale will you create for your Prince or Princess?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Gunthera1

EA recently announced a new title coming to the Sims line-up : The Sims Medieval. Not much has been revealed about the game. We do know that there will be quests and many possible roles to play: kings, queens, blacksmiths, … Continue reading →

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World of Warshaft (On RealID)

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Guest

Quinnae is a young, Latina trans woman who games, reads, writes, and likes slugs. Her hobbies-slash-flaming passions are sociology, feminism, gender studies, politics, and eating pizza. At present she is studying to be a college professor, and is also an officer … Continue reading →

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Zynga’s new FrontierVille allows for same sex marriage

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Tami Baribeau

Zynga, the developer of the titanic social game FarmVille, have released a brand new game on Facebook last week titled FrontierVille.  The best way to sum up this game is FarmVille meets Oregon Trail.  It’s one of the deeper and … Continue reading →

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