Or why I sometimes hate being a fat girl gamer online. Girls are repeatedly demeaned in games. So much so that websites such as Fat, Ugly, or Slutty exist. As a gamer, I’ve heard the jabs for years and there is something terribly wrong by the fact that we have grown to accept and ignore the [...]

Never Forget. That’s the refrain of the day. Will any of us forget what happened that day? I can remember the tiniest of details and, I’m sure, you can too. We aren’t going to forget, so what is it that we’re supposed to remember? How we came together, as a country, immediately after the attacks. [...]

Note: This is the first in several posts dealing with the issues of ARGs as an artful medium. The series was inspired by the reactions to  The Darkest Puzzle, an ARG examining 9/11 using early ARG history as a narrative starting point, and it will be used it as a frequent example. This post looks at [...]