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Lucidity: A game about sexual violence
Game Changer Chicago Design Lab seems like an interesting and worthy cause to stand behind here on The Border House. This initiative, run by Patrick Jagoda (game studies teacher at University of Chicago) and University of Chicago doctor Melissa Gilliam, … Continue reading
Madison Paige Does Pull Triggers
(Warnings: trigger for rape, sexual assault, and spoilers for Heavy Rain) Heavy Rain’s Madison Paige has had some eyebrow-raising marketing use. There has been much talk of a strip scene that occurs in the game. Then there’s this past year’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Heavy Rain, Madison Paige, male gaze, marketing, PS3, sex, sexism, sexual violence, sexuality, trigger warning
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