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The Border House Podcast Episode 1 Transcript and Call for Volunteers
Below is the transcript for Episode 1 of The Border House podcast. But before we get to that: we need your help! Transcription is a big job, so we are looking for volunteers who can transcribe 5-minute segments of the … Continue reading
Posted in Podcast, Site News
Tagged Dragon Age, Mass Effect, podcast, romance, transcript
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The Portrayal of Parenthood in Gaming
James Vonder Haar is a white, queer undergraduate great books student with a background in amateur games journalism and a foreground in writing about gender and sexuality issues. He hopes one day to join the ranks of sex-positive lawyers and … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games
Tagged children, FFVII, FFXIII, Final Fantasy, marriage, parenting, parents, people of color, POC, race, romance, Sazh
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How Can Romance Storylines Be More Engaging?
This post contains some major end-game spoilers for Dragon Age as well as some minor character-related spoilers for Mass Effect 2. Between Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, there’s been a lot of talk about romance storylines in games over … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games, General Gaming, PC Games
Tagged BioWare, Dragon Age: Origins, game design, Mass Effect 2, romance, sexuality, story
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