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Tag Archives: Valve
Awesome Cosplay Alert: Heavy from TF2
I saw this today on The Feminine Miss Geek and couldn’t help but repost it for everyone. I love to see incredibly good video game related costumes from a wider array of body types. Fantastic Heavy costume! (Edit: I … Continue reading
DotA 2 While Female
The following is a guest post from Clementine: Clementine is a 19 year old woman of color who is currently studying Geography at Dartmouth College. She is particularly interested in critical geography, discourse, and feminism and loves to apply these … Continue reading
Racism and Left 4 Dead 2
by guest contributor Alex H Alex Horn is a Latino existentialist looking to explore the intersections of race, gender, and semantics in the video game world. He is an aspiring independent game designer based in Philadelphia. This post was inspired … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games, PC Games
Tagged Left 4 Dead 2, New Orleans, race, racism, Valve, Xbox 360
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Portal 2 developer commentary
Portal 2 is not a perfect game from a diversity and inclusiveness standpoint. There are definitely a few moments where it gets things wrong, but there are also a lot of things that it gets right. Most notably (and like … Continue reading →